- diligent; hardworking
- capable; competent
- to work; to be employed
- motive; intention; to be diligent or attentive; careful
- swift; agile; efficient; quick-witted (colloquial)
- clever (child); smart; lovable; cute
- to rub; to scratch; to wipe; to polish; to apply (lipstick, lotion etc); to brush (past); to shred (a vegetable etc)
- to comb; (bound form) a comb
- orderly; tidy; smooth
- glossy; sleek; smooth
- to pile up; (bound form) repeated; to fold; classifier: stack, pile (of thin objects); classifier for repeated sections in a musical composition
- neat and tidy
- young successor; seedling; sapling
- therefore; as a result; thus; and as a result, ...
- 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
- (idiom) bright; clever; quick-witted
- to maintain (that sth is true); to determine (a fact); determination (of an amount); of the firm opinion; to believe firmly; to set one's mind on; to identify with
- lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units
- to read a book; to study; to attend school
- (raw) material; data; (fig.) person who has the potential to do the job
- to advocate; to stand for; view; position; stand; proposition; viewpoint; assertion; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to count on; to hope for; prospect; hope
- in the future; future; the future; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to be promoted and gain wealth (idiom)
- (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items
- the cassock and alms bowl of a Buddhist master passed on to the favorite disciple (Buddhism); legacy; mantle
- to preserve; to save
- rice bowl; fig. livelihood; job; way of making a living
- to quarrel; dispute
- younger brother; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- ordinarily; in normal times; in peacetime
- to look after; to attend to; to have in care
- little brother; little boy; (coll.) penis
- main; principal; major; primary
- mission; assignment; task; duty; role; CL:項|项[xiang4]
- after all; all in all; when all is said and done; in the final analysis
- child
- to only want to have a good time; to just want to have fun, and to shy away from self-discipline
- to be unavoidable (idiom)
- mama; mommy; mother; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- happy; glad; willing (to do sth); in a cheerful mood
- way of handling sth; means; measure; (practical) solution to a problem; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- whenever; every time
- child; kid (used to refer to a child, or by an adult to address a child, or, in Taiwan, to refer to sb's own child)
- game (CL:場|场[chang3]); to play
- to use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using; to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions); usefulness; utility; (bound form) expense; outlay; (courteous) to eat; to drink; (literary) hence; therefore