- to handle official business (usu. in an office); to do (office) work
- actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to hand over (responsibility for sth) to (sb); to leave it to (sb else to take charge of the next stage of a process)
- ringleader; gang leader; chieftain
- to interrogate; to examine; to question
- to speak out; to declare (one's view)
- real situation; the truth; true emotions; true feelings
- in order to avoid; so as not to
- to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被[bei4])
- 李 lǐ: 李 li3: plum李 Lǐ: 李 Li3: surname Li
- seat of government; government repository (archive); official residence; mansion; presidential palace; (honorific) Your home; prefecture (from Tang to Qing times)
- to know; to become aware of; also pr. [zhi1dao5]
- to mock; to be ridiculed; to incur ridicule through one's poor performance (humble)
- 只 zhǐ: 只 zhi3: only; merely; just只 zhī: 只 zhi1: grain that has begun to ripen只 zhī: 只 zhi1: classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
- heel; to follow closely; to go with; (of a woman) to marry sb; with; compared with; to; towards; and (joining two nouns)
- (it) hurts; sore; to love dearly
- 得 děi: 得 dei3: to have to; must; ought to; to need to得 dé: 得 de2: to obtain; to get; to gain; to catch (a disease); proper; suitable; proud; contented; to allow; to permit; ready; finished得 dè: 得 de4: used in 得瑟[de4 se5]得 de: 得 de5: structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc
- (used to describe sb or sth that makes a very strong impression, whether favorable or unfavorable) terrible; intense; severe; devastating; amazing; awesome; outstanding; (of a person) stern; strict; harsh; shrewd; tough; (of an animal) fierce; (of a resemblance) striking; (of liquor or chili pepper) strong; (of bacteria) virulent
- 见 xiàn: 见 xian4: to appear; also written 現|现[xian4]见 jiàn: 见 jian4: to see; to meet; to appear (to be sth); to interview; opinion; view
- to put out; to issue
- should not; to owe nothing
- matter; thing; item; work; affair; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1],回[hui2]
- the top and bottom of sth; the full vertical extent of sth; from top to bottom; to go up and down; before and after (as in 上下文[shang4 xia4 wen2] "context"); (used after a quantity) approximately; ... or so; (in a social hierarchy) the high and the low; seniors and juniors (as in 上下和睦[shang4 xia4 he2 mu4] "harmony between superiors and subordinates"); all members of a group (as in 舉國上下|举国上下[ju3 guo2 shang4 xia4] "the entire nation"); relative superiority (as in 不相上下[bu4 xiang1 shang4 xia4] "evenly matched")
- to size sb up; to look sb up and down; to take the measure of; to suppose; to reckon
- clothes
- orderly; neat; even; tidy
- to pay particular attention to; carefully selected for quality; tastefully chosen
- to speak; to say; to talk; to gossip; to tell stories; talk; word
- refined; educate; cultured; intellectual; polite; gentle
- central point; in one's thoughts; in one's heart
- think to oneself
- already; since; both... (and...)
- presumably; probably; in all likelihood; surely
- therefore; as a result; thus; and as a result, ...
- to punish by flogging
- original; former; originally; formerly; at first; so, actually, as it turns out
- Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- that level or higher; that amount or more; the above-mentioned; (used to indicate that one has completed one's remarks) That is all.
- to calculate; to figure out; to include; to count in; to count; to be valid; to carry weight; to regard as; to consider (to be ...)
- law court; hall (in castle); CL:家[jia1]
- to kneel
- if; in case; in the event that