- careful; attentive; cautious; to be careful; to look out; (dialect) thrifty; frugal
- to look at; to see; to see (a doctor); to visit
- 起来 qǐ lai: 起来 qi3 lai5: to stand up; to get up; also pr. [qi3lai2]起来 qi lai: 起来 qi5 lai5: (after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state; indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站[zhan4]); indicating completion; (after a perception verb, e.g. 看[kan4]) expressing preliminary judgment; also pr. [qi3lai5]
- to cycle; to circulate; circle; loop
- to return to
- 下面 xià miàn: 下面 xia4 mian4: below; under; next; the following; also pr. [xia4 mian5]下面 xià miàn: 下面 xia4 mian4: to boil noodles
- pond; bathhouse pool; dance floor of a ballroom; (old) stalls (front rows in a theater)
- to chatter; nonsense; blather
- really; truly; indeed; real; true; genuine
- flash
- 屈 qū: 屈 qu1: bent; to feel wronged屈 Qū: 屈 Qu1: surname Qu
- to bend; bent; a bend; a turn (in a road etc); CL:道[dao4]
- crystal
- pillar; CL:根[gen1]
- (coll.) but on the contrary; but instead
- original; former; originally; formerly; at first; so, actually, as it turns out
- different; distinct; not the same; not alike
- 棱 lēng: 棱 leng1: used in 刺棱[ci1 leng1]; used in 花不棱登[hua1 bu5 leng1 deng1]; used in 撲棱|扑棱[pu1 leng1]棱 léng: 棱 leng2: square beam棱 léng: 棱 leng2: arris; edge; corrugation; ridges棱 líng: 棱 ling2: used in 穆稜|穆棱[Mu4 ling2] (the name of a place in Heilongjiang); used in 丹稜|丹棱[Dan1 ling2] (the name of a place in Sichuan); used in 綏稜|绥棱[Sui2 ling2] (the name of a place in Heilongjiang)
- refraction
- 转动 zhuǎn dòng: 转动 zhuan3 dong4: to turn sth around; to swivel转动 zhuàn dòng: 转动 zhuan4 dong4: to rotate (about an axis); to revolve; to turn; to move in a circle; to gyrate
- after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then
- to arise; to come into being; to come about; to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate
- 令 lǐng: 令 ling3: classifier for a ream of paper令 lìng: 令 ling4: to order; to command; an order; warrant; writ; to cause; to make sth happen; virtuous; honorific title; season; government position (old); type of short song or poem令 líng: 令 ling2: used in 脊令[ji2 ling2]; used in 令狐[Ling2 hu2] (Taiwan pr. [ling4])
- (idiom) to pass off the fake as genuine; to blur the line between fake and real so convincingly that the fake is mistaken for the real thing
- unusual; special; very; especially; particularly; expressly; for a specific purpose; (often followed by 是[shi4]) in particular
- to like; to be fond of
- 打 dǎ: 打 da3: a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike; to fight; (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")打 dá: 打 da2: (loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]
- the West (Europe and North America); countries of the Indian Ocean (traditional)
- to turn around in one's hands; to play with; to fiddle with
- right; correct; towards; at; for; concerning; regarding; to treat (sb a certain way); to face; (bound form) opposite; facing; matching; to match together; to adjust; to fit; to suit; to answer; to reply; to add; to pour in (a fluid); to check; to compare; classifier: couple; pair
- this moment; now; at present
- position; post; job
- 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")
- 谈 Tán: 谈 Tan2: surname Tan谈 tán: 谈 tan2: to speak; to talk; to converse; to chat; to discuss
- outside; excluding
- else; other
- no good
- a load on one's mind; worry; CL:宗[zong1],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- it doesn't matter; it's nothing; never mind; think nothing of it; it's my pleasure; you're welcome
- to hope; a hope; a wish
- to try to find; to look for; to call on sb; to find; to seek; to return; to give change
- to use as an excuse; excuse; pretext
- angry; resentful