- to arrive at (place or time); period; to become due; classifier for events, meetings, elections, sporting fixtures, years (of graduation)
- lit. too numerous to record on bamboo slips (idiom); fig. (of crimes or misdeeds) innumerable; beyond counting
- to put (a criminal) to death; to punish
- to replace; to take over (a position or post)
- unmarried; single; alone
- to bet; to make a bet; a wager
- to beat sb up
- head of a (university) department; department chair
- lit. seek but fail to get (idiom); fig. exactly what one’s been looking for
- (used in names of people and shops, symbolizing prosperity)
- all year round
- first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; (used for an unspecified person or thing); first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc); letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; armor plating; shell or carapace; (of the fingers or toes) nail; bladed leather or metal armor (old); ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old); civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old); ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
- woman from an ordinary family
- to abide by the law
- citizen
- the spirit or character of a political party
- Communist Party member
- veteran
- seat
- to give up smoking
- (coll., humorous) money (so named because in former times, Chinese coins had a square hole in the middle)
- 分子 fèn zǐ: 分子 fen4 zi3: member of a class or group; people of a certain type分子 fēn zǐ: 分子 fen1 zi3: (chemistry) molecule; (math.) numerator of a fraction
- coach (teacher or trainer)
- (idiom) to attack sb by innuendo; to make insinuations
- relations with other people
- as far as I know; to the best of my knowledge
- devil incarnate (idiom); fiend in human form
- interest in sth; curiosity; inquisitive
- (idiom) (of one's circumstances) beyond one's control; unable to do anything about it; (of one's actions) not subject to conscious control (i.e. done in spite of oneself)
- (math.) order of magnitude
- 炸锅 zhà gūo: 炸锅 zha4 guo1: (of food) to burst out of the pot; (fig.) to be in an uproar炸锅 zhá gūo: 炸锅 zha2 guo1: fryer
- lit. kept inside a drum (idiom); fig. completely in the dark
- one-quarter
- ship ticket