- mid- (e.g. mid-century); middle period
- 宫 Gōng: 宫 Gong1: surname Gong宫 gōng: 宫 gong1: palace; temple; castration (as corporal punishment); first note in pentatonic scale
- 当时 dāng shí: 当时 dang1 shi2: then; at that time当时 dàng shí: 当时 dang4 shi2: immediately; right then
- 载 zǎi: 载 zai3: to record in writing; to carry (i.e. publish in a newspaper etc); Taiwan pr. [zai4]; year载 zài: 载 zai4: to carry; to convey; to load; to hold; to fill up; and; also; as well as; simultaneously
- civil war
- period of time; time; time period; period; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to conserve; to preserve; to keep; to store; (computing) to save (a file etc)
- 结实 jiē shí: 结实 jie1 shi2: to bear fruit结实 jiē shi: 结实 jie1 shi5: rugged; sturdy; strong; durable; buff (physique)
- suitcase; chest; box; case; trunk; CL:隻|只[zhi1],個|个[ge4]
- to be of no interest to anyone (idiom)
- to neglect; to overlook; to disregard; to ignore
- to forget; to cease to think about (sb or sth) anymore
- until
- teacher; gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.); husband; (dialect) doctor; CL:位[wei4]
- bottom
- king
- to rule; to govern; to manage; to control; to harness (a river); to treat (a disease); to wipe out (a pest); to punish; to research
- the Third (of numbered kings)
- to ascend the throne
- outset; beginning
- exquisite
- anatomy
- sketch
- mix-up; mish-mash; potpourri
- to include (in a collection); to put together (stories, poems etc); to record; to employ; to recruit
- to span; to stretch across; to travel across
- to comprise; to include; to involve; to incorporate; to consist of
- 文 wén: 文 wen2: language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67文 Wén: 文 Wen2: surname Wen
- to interrupt; to break off; to break (a bone)
- geometry; (literary) how much
- Spain
- to give a name to; to dub; to christen; to designate; named after; naming
- apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，他也會法語|除了英语，他也会法语[chu2 le5 Ying1 yu3 , ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3 yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French"); (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了[chu2 le5] + A + 就是[jiu4 shi4] + B, "either A or B")
- genuine; real; true; really; indeed
- one kind of; one type of
- Ur (Sumerian city c. 4500 BC in modern Iraq)
- to draw; to paint
- treatise; study
- secretary