- 要 yào: 要 yao4: to want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should; if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]); (bound form) important要 yāo: 要 yao1: (bound form) to demand; to coerce
- very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
- happy; glad; willing (to do sth); in a cheerful mood
- to bestow (a reward); to give (to an inferior); to hand down; a reward (bestowed by a superior); to appreciate (beauty)
- 白银 bái yín: 白银 bai2 yin2: silver白银 Bái yín: 白银 Bai2 yin2: see 白銀區|白银区[Bai2 yin2 Qu1]; see 白銀市|白银市[Bai2 yin2 Shi4]
- (bright) color; variety; applause; applaud; lottery prize
- satin
- one's conduct; deed; activity; accomplishment; achievement; to act as; as (in the capacity of); qua; to view as; to look upon (sth as); to take sth to be
- to marry; to get married
- congratulatory gift
- wine-lover's heart is not in the cup (idiom); a drinker not really interested in alcohol; having an ulterior motive; to have other things in mind; with an ax to grind; accomplishing something besides what one set out to do
- to touch briefly; to tap; to mark with a dot; to check off (on a list); to order (food etc); to select; to mention; to bring up (a topic or person); to hint at; to imply; to administer (eye medicine etc) in drops; to light (a fire, a lamp etc); to ignite; to nod (one's head) in agreement; to beckon by moving (one's hand) up and down; point; dot; spot; speck; dot stroke in Chinese characters; (math.) decimal point; point in time or space; (after a number) o'clock; a small amount; a bit; (after a verb or adjective) a bit more; classifier for small amounts
- 头 tou: 头 tou5: suffix for nouns头 tóu: 头 tou2: head; hair style; the top; end; beginning or end; a stub; remnant; chief; boss; side; aspect; first; leading; classifier for pigs or livestock; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to agree; to consent; to approve
- each; every
- prince's mansion
- the nine top officials (in imperial China)
- four; 4
- 相 xiàng: 相 xiang4: appearance; portrait; picture; government minister; (physics) phase; (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features); to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc)相 xiāng: 相 xiang1: each other; one another; mutually; fret on the neck of a pipa 琵琶[pi2 pa5] (a fret on the soundboard is called a 品[pin3])相 Xiāng: 相 Xiang1: surname Xiang
- every; various; separately, one by one
- yamen, government office in dynastic China
- 发 fā: 发 fa1: to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue; to develop; to make a bundle of money; classifier for gunshots (rounds)发 fà: 发 fa4: hair; Taiwan pr. [fa3]
- invitation card; written invitation
- to try to find; to look for; to call on sb; to find; to seek; to return; to give change
- the whole family; the same family; the family ... (when preceded by a family name); group
- capital of a country
- restaurant
- banquet; feast; dinner party; CL:席[xi2],個|个[ge4]
- 地 dì: 地 di4: earth; ground; field; place; land; CL:片[pian4]地 de: 地 de5: -ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
- for the sake of; for the purpose of
- convenient; suitable; to facilitate; to make things easy; having money to spare; (euphemism) to relieve oneself
- to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb); hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2 lai5]); ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]); for the past (amount of time); (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2 shi4]); (between two verbs) in order to; (after a round number) approximately; (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])
- to give a present
- inside; inner; internal; within; interior
- 成 Chéng: 成 Cheng2: surname Cheng; short name for Chengdu 成都[Cheng2 du1]成 chéng: 成 cheng2: to succeed; to finish; to complete; to accomplish; to become; to turn into; to be all right; OK!; one tenth
- to spread widely
- great streets and small alleys (idiom); everywhere in the city
- everyone; influential family; great expert