- to start (a machine); (fig.) to set in motion; to launch (an operation); to activate (a plan)
- position; location; place; seat; classifier for people (honorific); classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes); (physics) potential
- geography
- 大夫 dài fu: 大夫 dai4 fu5: doctor; physician大夫 dà fū: 大夫 da4 fu1: senior official (in imperial China)
- linguist
- sculptor
- architect
- contributor; benefactor
- museum piece; collector's item; precious object
- botany
- specimen; sample; the root cause and symptoms of a disease
- mineral
- to expound (a position); to elaborate (on a topic); to treat (a subject)
- constipation; Taiwan pr. [bian4bi4]
- to induce vomiting
- historian
- 隆 lōng: 隆 long1: sound of drums隆 lóng: 隆 long2: grand; intense; prosperous; to swell; to bulge隆 Lóng: 隆 Long2: surname Long; short for 吉隆坡[Ji2 long2 po1], Kuala Lumpur
- to explain
- court-martial; military tribunal
- victory; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to rest; to take a break; to stop; to halt; (dialect) to sleep; a moment; a short while
- dog; CL:隻|只[zhi1],條|条[tiao2]
- to bite; to nip
- to defend (legal) rights
- sodomy; anal intercourse; buggery
- to drive; to propel; drive (vehicle wheel); drive mechanism (tape or disk); device driver (computing software)
- proud (of one's achievements etc)
- monumental (literary) work
- to include; to embrace; to bring together
- to have children; to raise or bring up; to educate
- woodwork; carpentry; woodworker; carpenter
- skill; art
- 筑 Zhù: 筑 Zhu4: short name for Guiyang 貴陽|贵阳[Gui4 yang2]筑 zhù: 筑 zhu4: five-string lute; Taiwan pr. [zhu2]筑 zhù: 筑 zhu4: to build; to construct; to ram; to hit; Taiwan pr. [zhu2]
- to write at a tremendous speed
- prologue; preface; preamble
- landscape (in a picture); (fig.) landscape (i.e. general situation); view of the situation; mental picture
- suddenly; abruptly
- to classify
- (philosophy) a priori
- branch (of company, river etc); to branch; to diverge; to ramify; to subdivide
- to borrow sth for another use; to borrow an idea for one's own use
- statesman; politician; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]