- original; former; originally; formerly; at first; so, actually, as it turns out
- to enter the emperor's palace; (slang) to go to jail
- 时 shí: 时 shi2: o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period时 Shí: 时 Shi2: surname Shi
- only have ...; there is only ...; (used in combination with 才[cai2]) it is only if ... (that one can ...) (as in 只有通過治療才能痊愈|只有通过治疗才能痊愈[zhi3 you3 tong1 guo4 zhi4 liao2 cai2 neng2 quan2 yu4] "the only way to cure it is with therapy"); it is only (someone) who ... (as in 只有男性才有此需要[zhi3 you3 nan2 xing4 cai2 you3 ci3 xu1 yao4] "only men would have such a requirement"); (used to express lack of alternatives) can only; have no choice but to (as in 只有屈服[zhi3 you3 qu1 fu2] "the only thing you can do is give in")
- not to arrive; not reaching; insufficient; less than
- is precisely
- to skylark; to play boisterously; to fool around
- (a person's) age; CL:把[ba3],個|个[ge4]
- lit. compass and set square; fig. established standard; rule; customs; practices; fig. upright and honest; well-behaved
- but; yet; however; still; merely; only; just
- 闲暇 xián xiá: 闲暇 xian2 xia2: leisure; free time; unoccupied; not in use闲暇 xián xiá: 闲暇 xian2 xia2: leisure
- 余 yú: 余 yu2: (literary) I; me余 Yú: 余 Yu2: surname Yu余 yú: 余 yu2: extra; surplus; remaining; remainder after division; (following numerical value) or more; in excess of (some number); residue (math.); after; I; me
- to avail oneself of; to take advantage of
- Master (term used by servant); Your Majesty; operator (of machine)
- boss; superior
- no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- time; length of time; moment; period
- to make eyes; to wink
- to make a fool of oneself
- moreover; besides; in addition; furthermore
- these
- the most
- active; lively; excited; to enliven; to brighten up
- everyone; influential family; great expert
- in the dark; in secret; on the sly; surreptitiously
- (pronoun) this; (adjective) this
- (of a defect etc) to be of no great matter (idiom); harmless
- after all; all in all; when all is said and done; in the final analysis
- 听 yǐn: 听 yin3: smile (archaic)听 tīng: 听 ting1: to listen to; to hear; to heed; to obey; a can (loanword from English "tin"); classifier for canned beverages; to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4]); (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4])
- excessive; undue; to exceed; to be more than; very; extremely; (dialect) what; whatever (Taiwan pr. [shen2])
- elegant and tasteful
- very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
- 哪 něi: 哪 nei3: which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier)哪 nǎ: 哪 na3: how; which哪 na: 哪 na5: (emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊[a5] after a word ending in "n")哪 né: 哪 ne2: used in 哪吒[Ne2 zha1]; Taiwan pr. [nuo2]
- 会 hùi: 会 hui4: can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet; to get together; meeting; gathering; (suffix) union; group; association; (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [hui3])会 kuài: 会 kuai4: (bound form) to reckon accounts
- to stop; to halt; to cease
- thereupon; as a result; consequently; thus; hence
- 远 yuǎn: 远 yuan3: far; distant; remote; (intensifier in a comparison) by far; much (lower etc)远 yuàn: 远 yuan4: to distance oneself from (classical)
- (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items
- more and more
- to get angry; to be furious; vitality; liveliness
- always
- to try to find; to look for; to call on sb; to find; to seek; to return; to give change
- opportunity; chance; occasion; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to retort; to refute
- (once) again; also; both... and...; and yet; (used for emphasis) anyway
- to argue; to debate; to contend; argument; contention; controversy; debate; CL:次[ci4],場|场[chang3]