- to compare; to draw a parallel; to match; analogy; metaphor; comparison
- to divide (into); to split a bonus; to break into; tenths; percentage allotment
- grade; rank; status
- chief; first; brightest and best
- indifferent; insignificant
- lunar New Year's Eve
- serious illness
- (vulgar) impoverished person; the poor
- need not; not obliged to; not necessarily
- farewell dinner; preserves
- bamboo mat for sitting
- humorous; jocular; zany
- Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春節|春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar
- thirty-ninth year I3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1962 or 2022
- February; second month (of the lunar year)
- to light a lamp
- to receive a visitor
- 江河 jiāng hé: 江河 jiang1 he2: river江河 Jiāng Hé: 江河 Jiang1 He2: Yangtze and Yellow rivers
- insipid; diluted; weak; mild; light in color; tasteless; indifferent
- 巴 Bā: 巴 Ba1: Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan); the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality; surname Ba; (bound form) abbr. for 巴勒斯坦[Ba1 le4 si1 tan3] (Palestine), 巴基斯坦[Ba1 ji1 si1 tan3] (Pakistan) or 巴西[Ba1 xi1] (Brazil)巴 bā: 巴 ba1: to long for; to wish; to cling to; to stick to; sth that sticks; close to; next to; spread open; informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4]; bar (unit of pressure); nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail
- everywhere; in all respects
- in good health
- to number the years; calendar era; annals; chronicle
- surname Zhu; abbr. for 天竺[Tian1 zhu2], India (esp. in Tang or Buddhist context); (archaic) Buddhism
- entertaining in conversation
- to talk cheerfully and wittily; to joke together
- abbr. for 聯合國大會|联合国大会[Lian2 he2 guo2 Da4 hui4], United Nations General Assembly; abbr. for 國立西南聯合大學|国立西南联合大学[Guo2 li4 Xi1 nan2 Lian2 he2 Da4 xue2], National Southwest Combined University
- (literary) ripe grain; ripe; harvest; year; (literary) very familiar with; well acquainted with
- Mogao caves in Dunhuang 敦煌, Gansu
- bamboo slip used for record keeping during the Han Dynasty
- 奥 ào: 奥 ao4: obscure; mysterious奥 ào: 奥 Ao4: (bound form) Austria (abbr. for 奧地利|奥地利[Ao4 di4 li4]); (bound form) Olympics (abbr. for 奧林匹克|奥林匹克[Ao4 lin2 pi3 ke4])
- piece of writing submitted for publication; manuscript; article
- to reply; to write back; letter written in reply; CL:封[feng1]
- desk-mate; seat-mate