- 大 dài: 大 dai4: see 大夫[dai4 fu5]大 dà: 大 da4: big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
- reality; actuality; real; actual; realistic; pragmatic; materialistic; self-interested
- use; application
- thus; consequently; as a result
- 当 dāng: 当 dang1: (onom.) dong; ding dong (bell)当 dàng: 当 dang4: at or in the very same...; suitable; adequate; fitting; proper; to replace; to regard as; to think; to pawn; (coll.) to fail (a student)当 dāng: 当 dang1: to be; to act as; manage; withstand; when; during; ought; should; match equally; equal; same; obstruct; just at (a time or place); on the spot; right; just at
- to know; to become aware of; also pr. [zhi1dao5]
- to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)
- the whole family; the same family; the family ... (when preceded by a family name); group
- company; firm; corporation; CL:家[jia1]
- to use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using; to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions); usefulness; utility; (bound form) expense; outlay; (courteous) to eat; to drink; (literary) hence; therefore
- to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb); hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2 lai5]); ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]); for the past (amount of time); (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2 shi4]); (between two verbs) in order to; (after a round number) approximately; (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])
- to decorate; to adorn; to dress up; to disguise oneself
- oneself; (attributive) one's own
- really; truly; indeed; real; true; genuine; (math.) proper
- stupefied; stunned
- 了 le: 了 le5: (completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now); (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)了 liǎo: 了 liao3: to finish; (used with 得[de2] or 不[bu4] after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了[wang4 bu5 liao3] "cannot forget"); (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 無|无[wu2] or 不[bu4]) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least了 liǎo: 了 liao3: (of eyes) bright; clear-sighted; to understand clearly
- each; every
- staff; personnel; employee
- 都 dōu: 都 dou1: all; both; entirely; (used for emphasis) even; already; (not) at all都 dū: 都 du1: capital city; metropolis都 Dū: 都 Du1: surname Du
- to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs
- to select; to pick; choice; option; alternative
- a martial arts (wuxia) novel
- 中 zhōng: 中 zhong1: within; among; in; middle; center; while (doing sth); during; (dialect) OK; all right中 zhòng: 中 zhong4: to hit (a target); to be struck by (a bullet, illness etc); to win (a prize or lottery)中 Zhōng: 中 Zhong1: (bound form) China; Chinese; surname Zhong
- name (of a person or thing); CL:個|个[ge4]
- one's conduct; deed; activity; accomplishment; achievement; to act as; as (in the capacity of); qua; to view as; to look upon (sth as); to take sth to be
- name of a person on the household register (old); name on a roster; professional name of a prostitute; pseudonym; nickname
- until
- today; the present time; now
- still; as before; yet
- to pass through; to get through; to adopt (a resolution); to pass (legislation); to pass (a test); by means of; through; via
- 系 xì: 系 xi4: to connect; to relate to; to tie up; to bind; to be (literary)系 xì: 系 xi4: system; department; faculty系 xì: 系 xi4: to connect; to arrest; to worry系 jì: 系 ji4: to tie; to fasten; to button up
- to judge; to determine; judgment
- (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his; (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日[ta1 ri4] and 他人[ta1 ren2])
- to hold an office or post
- length; accident; mishap; right and wrong; good and bad; merits and demerits
- if; in case; in the event that
- very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
- 好 hǎo: 好 hao3: good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello好 hào: 好 hao4: to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
- 那 Núo: 那 Nuo2: surname Nuo那 nà: 那 na4: (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nei4]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case)那 núo: 那 nuo2: (archaic) many; beautiful; how那 Nā: 那 Na1: surname Na
- surely; certainly; definitely; fixed; settled; a certain ...; a given ...
- prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity; old (of people); venerable (person); experienced; of long standing; always; all the time; of the past; very; outdated; (of meat etc) tough
- conveniently; without extra trouble; while doing it; in passing
- to lift; to hold up; to cite; to enumerate; to act; to raise; to choose; to elect; act; move; deed
- a few; several; how many
- case; (for) instance; example; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 阿里巴巴 ā lǐ bā bā: 阿里巴巴 A1 li3 ba1 ba1: Alibaba, PRC e-commerce company阿里巴巴 ā lǐ Bā bā: 阿里巴巴 A1 li3 Ba1 ba1: Ali Baba, character from The Arabian Nights
- group; bloc; corporation; conglomerate
- 陆 lìu: 陆 liu4: six (banker's anti-fraud numeral)陆 lù: 陆 lu4: (bound form) land (as opposed to the sea)陆 Lù: 陆 Lu4: surname Lu