- coming to an end; waning
- old-style wooden folding armchair, typically featuring a footrest; (fig.) position in a hierarchy
- the right flank; (politically) right-wing
- to worsen
- voter; constituency; electorate
- to bear the brunt
- thigh; part of a whole; portion of a sum; (finance) stock; share; strand of a thread; low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科[ke1]; classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc; classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff; classifier for bands of people, gangs etc; classifier for sudden forceful actions
- wave; tides
- labor; laborer
- 党 dǎng: 党 dang3: party; association; club; society; CL:個|个[ge4]党 Dǎng: 党 Dang3: surname Dang
- majority party
- coalition government
- to wield (power etc)
- term of office; CL:屆|届[jie4]; tenure (entire period in office)
- foreign minister; secretary of state; minister of foreign affairs
- 段 Duàn: 段 Duan4: surname Duan段 duàn: 段 duan4: paragraph; section; segment; stage (of a process); classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc
- to look forward to; to await; expectation
- to shorten; to reduce; to curtail
- to call; to appeal
- efficient; highly effective
- compact; terse; tight (schedule)
- to take office; to assume a post
- to collapse; to crumble; to fall apart
- the characteristics and circumstances particular to a country; current state of a country
- 百 Bǎi: 百 Bai3: surname Bai百 bǎi: 百 bai3: hundred; numerous; all kinds of
- 失调 shī diào: 失调 shi1 diao4: out of tune (music)失调 shī tiáo: 失调 shi1 tiao2: imbalance; to become dysfunctional; to lack proper care (after an illness etc)
- of little value
- to go bankrupt; to become impoverished; bankruptcy
- million
- to fall; to tumble
- grocery store; emporium
- shop assistant; store clerk
- to walk past; to pass by
- either side; both sides
- to spread over an area
- (communications) channel; thoroughfare; passage
- price
- money; coins; currency; silk