- contrary; in reverse; inside out or upside down; to reverse; to return; to oppose; opposite; against; anti-; to rebel; to use analogy; instead; abbr. for 反切[fan3 qie4] phonetic system
- as it should be by rights (idiom); proper and to be expected as a matter of course; inevitable and right
- slow in one's reactions; sluggish (in movement or thought)
- to awaken; to come to realize; awakened to the truth; the truth dawns upon one; scales fall from the eyes; to become aware
- 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
- to appear on camera; to play a role in a film
- video camera; CL:部[bu4]
- immediate
- this city; our city
- no good; not good for; not beneficial
- to belong to; to be affiliated to; to fall under the jurisdiction of; a place where one feels that one belongs; one's final destination (where one need look no further)
- to assemble; to gather
- meat
- to guide; guidebook
- to publish; to carry (a piece of writing, news, image etc) in a periodical or other publication; Taiwan pr. [kan1zai4]
- (bound form) of short duration; hasty; rapid; (bound form) to hasten; to hurry; to urge; (literary) close by; pressed against
- to lead to; to trigger; to initiate; to cause; to evoke (emotions)
- inside; interior
- to cover; to comprise; to include
- tide; damp; moist; humid; fashionable; trendy; (coll.) inferior; substandard
- repair shop
- to describe; to depict; to portray
- in the years of; during those years; period (of dynasty or decade)
- to transmit; to forward (mail, SMS, packets of data); to pass on; to republish (an article from another publication)
- to equivocate; to talk evasively (idiom)
- to explain; to justify; to defend (a point of view etc); to provide an explanation; to try to defend oneself