- originally; at first; at the outset
- cause; reason; because
- to grasp; to hold; to operate; to manage; to control; to steer; to exercise; to drill (practice); to play; to speak (a language)
- readily; flatly (deny, admit and so on); a mouthful; a bite
- to have as a feature or characteristic; to have an element of (confidence, sweetness, malevolence etc); to carry (a pathogen, connotation etc)
- Germany
- (bound form) cavity; (bound form) speech; talk; tune; accent (in one's speech); (old) classifier for carcasses of slaughtered livestock
- French (language)
- to loathe; to hate; disgusted with sth
- to draw (e.g. a bow); to pull; to stretch sth; to extend; to lengthen; to involve or implicate in; to attract; to lead; to guide; to leave; to provide evidence or justification for; old unit of distance equal to 10 丈[zhang4], one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters
- to arrive; most; to; until
- castle; rook (chess piece)
- to enter; to step into
- 立 Lì: 立 Li4: surname Li立 lì: 立 li4: to stand; to set up; to establish; to lay down; to draw up; at once; immediately
- independent; independence; to stand alone
- wardrobe; armoire; CL:個|个[ge4]
- room; CL:間|间[jian1]
- to walk; to go; to run; to move (of vehicle); to visit; to leave; to go away; to die (euph.); from; through; away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走[che4 zou3]); to change (shape, form, meaning)
- 跟前 gēn qián: 跟前 gen1 qian2: the front (of); (in) front; (in) sb's presence; just before (a date)跟前 gēn qian: 跟前 gen1 qian5: (of children, parents etc) at one's side; living with one
- to take off; to remove (one's hat, a door from its hinges etc); to pick (a piece of fruit from a tree etc); (sports) to pick off (a rebound etc)
- old-fashioned; out of date; obsolete; antiquated
- originally; the original; original copy; original version
- to have expectations; to earnestly hope; expectation; hope
- perhaps; maybe
- unexpectedly; to one's surprise
- in front of; facing; (in the) presence (of)
- nevertheless; actually; the fact is ...
- amount; quantity; quantitative; (math.) scalar quantity
- 好 hǎo: 好 hao3: good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello好 hào: 好 hao4: to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
- incomparable; matchless
- in a short while; all at once; all of a sudden
- to kneel
- on the ground; on the floor
- to cover up; to conceal; to go into hiding
- 起来 qǐ lai: 起来 qi3 lai5: to stand up; to get up; also pr. [qi3lai2]起来 qi lai: 起来 qi5 lai5: (after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state; indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站[zhan4]); indicating completion; (after a perception verb, e.g. 看[kan4]) expressing preliminary judgment; also pr. [qi3lai5]
- (of a period of time) long
- to see the light again (idiom); delivered from oppression
- today; the present time; now
- name; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners); famous; classifier for people
- file; record; archive