- government; CL:個|个[ge4]
- serviceman; soldier; military personnel
- leading; dominant; prevailing; to lead; to direct; to dominate
- roughly; probably; rough; approximate; about; general idea
- very; really; unusual; extraordinary
- to love ardently; to adore
- officer (military)
- power; authority
- straight (in a straight line); continuously; always; all the way through
- to obey (an order); to comply; to defer
- civil administration
- official (in an organization or government); administrator
- to have; to possess; to own
- military affairs; (attributive) military
- even if; even though; right away; immediately
- public praise; public reputation; commonly held opinions; current idiom
- high-ranking military officer
- in front of; facing; (in the) presence (of)
- to pale by comparison (idiom)
- reputation; prestige; public esteem
- 打 dá: 打 da2: (loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]打 dǎ: 打 da3: a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike; to fight; (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")
- to come down; (completed action marker); (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.); (indicates continuation from the past towards us); to be harvested (of crops); to be over (of a period of time); to go among the masses (said of leaders)
- statesman; politician; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- author; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- even; so much so that
- scholar
- 当 dāng: 当 dang1: (onom.) dong; ding dong (bell)当 dàng: 当 dang4: at or in the very same...; suitable; adequate; fitting; proper; to replace; to regard as; to think; to pawn; (coll.) to fail (a student)当 dāng: 当 dang1: to be; to act as; manage; withstand; when; during; ought; should; match equally; equal; same; obstruct; just at (a time or place); on the spot; right; just at
- only natural; as it should be; certainly; of course; without doubt
- all one's life; throughout one's life
- to pay; to expend; to invest (energy or time)
- to conquer; to subdue; to vanquish
- to permit; to allow
- long-time; long-term; lasting; enduring; permanent; for a long time
- result; achievement; gain; profit; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 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
- a line of verse; a sentence
- dialect; language; spoken words; speech; talk; words; conversation; what sb said; CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]
- to summarize; to generalize; briefly; in broad outline
- purpose; aim; goal; target; objective
- to enjoy; to live it up; pleasure; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- each; respective; apiece
- talent; CL:份[fen4]
- (in) return; reciprocation; payback; retaliation; to report back; to reciprocate