- to rise; to raise; to get up; to set out; to start; to appear; to launch; to initiate (action); to draft; to establish; to get (from a depot or counter); verb suffix, to start; starting from (a time, place, price etc); classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance; classifier for groups: batch, group
- 时 Shí: 时 Shi2: surname Shi时 shí: 时 shi2: o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period
- 都 dōu: 都 dou1: all; both; entirely; (used for emphasis) even; already; (not) at all都 Dū: 都 Du1: surname Du都 dū: 都 du1: capital city; metropolis
- more or less
- to recollect; to recall (past times); to look back
- because; owing to; on account of
- exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if
- to wait for; to await; by the time; when; till; and so on; etc.; et al.; (bound form) class; rank; grade; (bound form) equal to; same as; (used to end an enumeration); (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun)
- 六 lù: 六 lu4: used in place names六 lìu: 六 liu4: six; 6
- nobleman; person of noble character
- to dig; to excavate; to scoop out
- to reach; to arrive; to leave for; to go to; to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point); (verb complement indicating arriving at a place or reaching a point); considerate; thoughtful; thorough
- the first pot of gold; the initial profits from an economic endeavour
- just recently; just a moment ago
- see 廣州市|广州市[Guang3 zhou1 Shi4]
- to establish; to build
- still (as before); had better; unexpectedly; or
- 朱 zhū: 朱 zhu1: vermilion朱 Zhū: 朱 Zhu1: surname Zhu朱 zhū: 朱 zhu1: (bound form) cinnabar
- 孟 mèng: 孟 meng4: first month of a season; eldest amongst brothers孟 Mèng: 孟 Meng4: surname Meng
- to depend on; to comply with or listen to sb; according to; in the light of
- to register; to enroll
- 合 hé: 合 he2: to close; to join; to fit; to be equal to; whole; together; round (in battle); conjunction (astronomy); 1st note of pentatonic scale合 gě: 合 ge3: 100 ml; one-tenth of a peck; measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗
- to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire); to live; to be alive; life; raw; uncooked; unprocessed; unfamiliar; strange; (bound form) student; person engaged in a field; (bound form) male role in traditional opera; (bound form) life; lifetime; (bound form) means of livelihood; (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2]); (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
- 创 chuāng: 创 chuang1: (bound form) a wound; to wound创 chuàng: 创 chuang4: to initiate; to create; to achieve (sth for the first time)
- 展 zhǎn: 展 zhan3: to spread out; to open up; to exhibit; to put into effect; to postpone; to prolong; exhibition展 Zhǎn: 展 Zhan3: surname Zhan
- as for; as to; to go so far as to
- many; multiple; multi- (faceted, ethnic etc)
- now; this moment
- to go out to sea; to enter the sea (to swim etc); (fig.) to take the plunge (e.g. leave a secure job, or enter prostitution etc)
- side; edge; margin; border; boundary; proximity; thread (of ideas, plots etc); see also 邊|边[bian1]
- to feel with the hand; to touch; to stroke; to grope; to steal; to abstract
- 余 Yú: 余 Yu2: surname Yu余 yú: 余 yu2: (literary) I; me余 yú: 余 yu2: extra; surplus; remaining; remainder after division; (following numerical value) or more; in excess of (some number); residue (math.); after; I; me
- in the years of; during those years; period (of dynasty or decade)
- to revolve around; to center on (an issue)
- to go to the bottom of a matter; after all; when all is said and done; (in an interrogative sentence) finally; outcome; result
- how; what kind
- legendary; fantasy saga; romance; short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty
- 呢 ne: 呢 ne5: (sentence-final particle) used in questions to link back to prior discourse or context ("what about...?", "and...?"); (sentence-final particle) indicating that a state or situation still holds; (discourse particle) used to mark a slight pause or emphasis in speech呢 ní: 呢 ni2: dense wool fabric (used for coats and jackets)
- to borrow sth for another use; to borrow an idea for one's own use
- a line of verse; a sentence
- (literary) to offer food and drinks; to entertain
- all; to have; to possess; to own
- reader
- very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)