- 种 zhǒng: 种 zhong3: seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts种 zhòng: 种 zhong4: to plant; to grow; to cultivate
- faultless; complete; perfect; to leave nothing to be desired
- 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
- (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]); him; her; it
- to continue; to go on; to last
- to organize; organization; (biology) tissue; (textiles) weave; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 严 yán: 严 yan2: tight (closely sealed); stern; strict; rigorous; severe; father严 Yán: 严 Yan2: surname Yan
- influence; effect; to influence; to affect (usually adversely); to disturb; CL:股[gu3]
- world
- to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion)
- one and only (idiom); rarely seen; unique of its kind
- many times; repeatedly
- to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
- autocracy; dictatorship
- to meddle; to intervene; intervention
- (historical) affairs of state at the imperial court
- 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
- feudal society
- politics; political
- important; significant; major
- long; endless; boundless
- years; time
- long river; (fig.) long flow of time
- 中 zhōng: 中 zhong1: within; among; in; middle; center; while (doing sth); during; (dialect) OK; all right中 Zhōng: 中 Zhong1: (bound form) China; Chinese; surname Zhong中 zhòng: 中 zhong4: to hit (a target); to be struck by (a bullet, illness etc); to win (a prize or lottery)
- maybe; perhaps; might; possibly; or
- to be good at; to be expert in
- countless; numberless; innumerable
- this way; like this; so; (before a noun) this kind of; such
- same type; category 1 (i.e. class A)
- straight (in a straight line); continuously; always; all the way through
- to attach importance to sth; to value
- they; them
- to hold; to seize; to catch; to apprehend; to take; (used in the same way as 把[ba3]: to mark the following noun as a direct object)
- (bound form) cavity; (bound form) speech; talk; tune; accent (in one's speech); (old) classifier for carcasses of slaughtered livestock
- to hold between the thumb and fingers; to pinch; to mold (using the fingers); to hold (lit. in one's hand and fig.); to join together; to fabricate (a story, a report, etc)
- 调 tiáo: 调 tiao2: to harmonize; to reconcile; to blend; to suit well; to adjust; to regulate; to season (food); to provoke; to incite调 diào: 调 diao4: to transfer; to move (troops or cadres); to investigate; to enquire into; accent; view; argument; key (in music); mode (music); tune; tone; melody
- foot; leg (of an animal or an object); base (of an object); CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]; classifier for kicks
- to step on; to tread; to stamp; to press a pedal; to pedal (a bike); (online) to downvote
- small quick steps
- Danei, a district in Tainan 台南|台南[Tai2 nan2], Taiwan
- to keep; to maintain; to preserve
- order; orderliness (in society, in the classroom, on the roads etc)
- 干 Gān: 干 Gan1: surname Gan干 gān: 干 gan1: dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder干 gān: 干 gan1: (bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with; one of the ten heavenly stems 天干[tian1 gan1]; (archaic) shield干 gàn: 干 gan4: tree trunk; main part of sth; to manage; to work; to do; capable; cadre; to kill (slang); to fuck (vulgar); (coll.) pissed off; annoyed
- some; a few; a little; (following an adjective) slightly ...er
- physical labor
- imperial concubine
- day-to-day; daily; everyday