- guests; visitors
- customer; visitor; guest; classifier for servings or portions (when ordering food)
- type; form; pattern; style
- feast; banquet
- 席 Xí: 席 Xi2: surname Xi席 xí: 席 xi2: woven mat; seat; banquet; place in a democratic assembly; classifier for banquets, conversations etc
- 上 shǎng: 上 shang3: used in 上聲|上声[shang3 sheng1]上 shàng: 上 shang4: (bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts); to climb; to get onto; to go up; to attend (class or university); (directional complement) up; (noun suffix) on; above
- to spend money
- amount; number
- regarding; as far as (sth) is concerned; with regard to
- simply; really
- (idiom) astronomical figure
- it could even be said
- (idiom) unprecedented; unheard of
- (idiom) unprecedented in history
- can't
- to duplicate; to make a copy of; to copy; to reproduce; to clone
- in a word; in short; in brief
- any; whatever; whichever
- a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
- 可 kě: 可 ke3: (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very; but; however可 kè: 可 ke4: used in 可汗[ke4 han2]
- 与 yǔ: 与 yu3: (formal) and; together with (linking parallel nouns, verbs, or phrases); (formal) with; from (marking the other participant in an interaction, comparison, or contrast, e.g. 與他握手|与他握手[yu3 ta1 wo4 shou3] "shake hands with him", 與去年不同|与去年不同[yu3 qu4 nian2 bu4 tong2] "different from last year"); (literary) to give; to grant; to bestow与 yù: 与 yu4: to take part in
- (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]); him; her; it
- 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
- to compare; to contrast; comparatively; relatively; quite; comparison
- a few; several; how many
- county; (Japan) prefecture
- neighbor; neighborhood
- very; greatly
- to cause a sensation; to create a stir in (a place); commotion; controversy
- reign name of penultimate Qing emperor Guangxu or Guang-hsu (1875-1908)
- 年 Nián: 年 Nian2: surname Nian年 nián: 年 nian2: year; CL:個|个[ge4]年 nián: 年 nian2: grain; harvest (old)
- early winter
- season; time
- to die of an illness
- 于 yú: 于 yu2: to go; to take; sentence-final interrogative particle于 Yú: 于 Yu2: surname Yu于 yú: 于 yu2: (of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by
- Beijing municipality, capital of the People's Republic of China (short name 京[Jing1])
- Xizhimen neighborhood of Beijing; the main northwest gate of Beijing
- inside; inner; internal; within; interior
- cotton
- lane; alley; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- residence of a high-ranking official
- 这 zhè: 这 zhe4: (pronoun) this; these; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing)这 zhèi: 这 zhei4: (coll.) this
- one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
- already; to stop; then; afterwards
- to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion)
- 岁 sùi: 岁 sui4: years old岁 sùi: 岁 sui4: classifier for years (of age); year; year (of crop harvests)