- percolation
- pot; classifier for bottled liquid
- to add water (or other liquid) to (another ingredient such as powdered milk or tea leaves); to infuse (tea)
- depth; (of a speech etc) profundity; advanced stage of development
- before this; before then; previously
- 大学 dà xué: 大学 da4 xue2: university; college; CL:所[suo3]大学 Dà xué: 大学 Da4 xue2: the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1] in Confucianism
- to go to work; to be on duty; to start work; to go to the office
- to freshen up; to be cautious or vigilant; to watch out; stimulant to enhance mental performance; stay-awake drug; agrypnotic
- slop; swill
- to think; to believe (often with the implication that the belief is mistaken – unless referring to one's own current belief)
- to know sth like the back of one's hand (idiom); to know (a person, a place etc) inside out
- 杯 bēi: 杯 bei1: cup; trophy cup; classifier for certain containers of liquids: glass, cup杯 bēi: 杯 bei1: trophy cup; classifier for certain containers of liquids: glass, cup
- urgent; pressing
- gentleman
- cashier; checkout clerk
- to hand over; to deliver; to pay (money); to turn over; to make friends; (of lines) to intersect
- to leave for; to proceed towards; to go to
- block; neighborhood
- one week; all the way around; a whole cycle
- to seek by inquiry or search; to call on; to visit
- to mount (a picture); to dress; to adorn; decoration; packaging
- very; really; unusual; extraordinary
- simple and crude
- barely; only; merely; only (this and nothing more)
- considered to be; at last
- to stop on the way for a rest
- narrow
- smoke; to fumigate
- inn; old-style hotel (CL:家[jia1]); (bound form) shop; store
- man; gentleman
- to laugh; to smile; to laugh at
- individually; one by one; just one or two; exceptional; rare
- dainty; elegance; elegant
- fashion; fad; fashionable
- spacious; wide
- the male sex; a male
- school uniform
- textbook; CL:本[ben3]
- to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement
- old man or woman; the elderly; one's aged parents or grandparents
- alone
- to read; to study
- to write (by hand); to practice calligraphy
- to stare blankly; to be stunned; to be lost in thought
- to gaze at; to stare fixedly at