- to debate; to contend; polemics
- 赚 zhuàn: 赚 zhuan4: to earn; to make a profit赚 zuàn: 赚 zuan4: to cheat; to swindle
- basin; flower pot; unit of volume equal to 12 斗[dou3] and 8 升[sheng1], approx 128 liters; CL:個|个[ge4]
- small earthenware plate or basin; a monk's alms bowl; Sanskrit paatra
- broker; middleman; agent; manager
- commission
- false name; pseudonym; alias; pen name; the Japanese kana scripts; hiragana 平假名[ping2 jia3 ming2] and katakana 片假名[pian4 jia3 ming2]
- name; titular; nominal; in name; ostensible purpose
- excessive; undue; unduly; overly
- 弄 lòng: 弄 long4: lane; alley弄 nòng: 弄 nong4: to do; to manage; to handle; to play with; to fool with; to mess with; to fix; to toy with
- very good
- (literary) to send (a manuscript) to the press
- (idiom) sweet words; sweet talk; cajolery
- corrosion; to corrode (degrade chemically); to rot; corruption
- timidity; timid; cowardly
- to retreat; to shrink back
- to speak the truth; truth to tell; frankly
- 表 biǎo: 表 biao3: exterior surface; family relationship via females; to show (one's opinion); a model; a table (listing information); a form; a meter (measuring sth)表 biǎo: 表 biao3: watch (timepiece); meter; gauge
- to divert one's attention; to get distracted; (courteous) to be so good as to take care of (a matter)
- to put pen to paper; to start writing or painting
- tone of voice; the way one speaks; manner of expression; tone
- elder brother
- one's employment; business; matter that needs to be settled; (northern dialect) (of a person) demanding; trying; troublesome; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- 老子 Lǎo zǐ: 老子 Lao3 zi3: Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism; the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經|道德经[Dao4 de2 jing1] by Laozi老子 lǎo zi: 老子 lao3 zi5: father; daddy; "I, your father" (in anger, or out of contempt); I (used arrogantly or jocularly)
- to irrigate; to pour; to install (software); to record (music)
- to lose (sth); to drop (sth); to feel a sense of loss; frustrated; disappointment; loss
- to send (on a mission); to dispatch
- 团 tuán: 团 tuan2: round; lump; ball; to roll into a ball; to gather; regiment; group; society; classifier for a lump or a soft mass: wad (of paper), ball (of wool), cloud (of smoke)团 tuán: 团 tuan2: dumpling
- to promise; to pledge
- preferential treatment; to give preferential treatment
- underlayer; lower class; lower strata; substrate
- assistant
- qualified; competent (professionally); to be up to a task
- insignificant; trifling; merely
- soldier's pay
- lamentable
- to subsidize; to provide financial aid; subsidy