- high level; high grade; advanced; high-ranking
- joseki (fixed opening pattern in go game)
- opening (chess etc); early stage of game, match, work, activity etc
- offbeat; alternative; avant-garde; unconventional; weird
- to puzzle; to confuse; to baffle
- medicine; medical science; study of medicine
- preparatory course (in college)
- to accept an applicant (prospective student, employee etc) who passes an entrance exam; to admit (a student); to hire (a job candidate)
- to select the best
- term; semester; CL:個|个[ge4]
- second; number two; next; secondary
- Chinese chess; CL:副[fu4]
- Russia
- to rank (1st, 2nd etc); ranking
- to rise; to go up; to ascend
- to weaken; to attenuate
- faculty of memory; ability to remember
- cannot; should not; must not
- to prevail over; to defeat; to surmount
- to make a decision; to make up one's mind
- environs; surroundings; periphery
- to ingratiate oneself
- clothes; CL:件[jian4],套[tao4]
- to go out; to leave home; to go on a journey; away from home; (of a woman) to get married
- which; who
- 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)
- song lyric; lyrics
- gene (loanword)
- heredity; to inherit (a trait); to pass on (to one's offspring)
- gramophone; phonograph
- to broadcast; to transmit (by radio or TV)
- enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out
- to obey (an order); to comply; to defer
- to compete with; to vie with; to counter
- cook; chef
- food
- to duplicate; to make a copy of; to copy; to reproduce; to clone
- emotion; sentiment; affection; feelings between two persons
- to cook; cooking
- (literary) to covet; to cast greedy eyes on
- to hate to do sth; to hate to part with; to begrudge