- to act with urgency; to buy time
- to sleep; to lie down
- mattress; CL:張|张[zhang1]
- to receive; to accept; to collect; to put away; to restrain; to stop; in care of (used on address line after name)
- to reinstate; to resume; to restore; to recover; to regain; to rehabilitate
- original shape; the same as before
- unhurried
- to stand as a goalkeeper; to keep guard on a gate
- to turn over; to flip over; to overturn; to rummage through; to translate; to decode; to double; to climb over or into; to cross
- upside down; upturned
- portion; part of; subset
- outside (also pr. [wai4 mian5] for this sense); surface; exterior; external appearance
- garden (for flowers, ornamental plants etc); (landscaped) park; yard with decorative plants; CL:座[zuo4]
- many times; repeatedly
- mouth; in the mouth; on one's lips; speech; words
- (idiom) filthy speech; obscenities
- or; either one or the other
- to capture alive
- homicide (law)
- to partition; to divide up
- money and valuables
- (coll.) if
- rather than... (used in expressions of the form 與其|与其[yu3 qi2] + {verb1} + 不如[bu4 ru2] + {verb2} "rather than {verb1}, better to {verb2}")
- to grab hold of; to capture
- to obtain (sth) in exchange; to exchange (sth) for (sth else)
- monetary reward
- lit. head broken and blood flowing; fig. badly bruised
- not equal to; not as good as; inferior to; it would be better to
- to die in such a way that sb (or sth) else also perishes; to take sb down with oneself; to end in mutual destruction
- (idiom) to survive a calamity; to get through a crisis
- (before an adjective or verb) to the highest degree; (the) most ...; -est; (after 之[zhi1]) best or most extreme example (e.g. 世界之最[shi4 jie4 zhi1 zui4] "the greatest in the world")
- (idiom) just as in the past; as before; continuing as always
- complete; whole; totally; entirely
- to set aside for
- to help; to assist; to support; for sb (i.e. as a help); hired (as worker); side (of pail, boat etc); outer layer; upper (of a shoe); group; gang; clique; party; secret society
- to shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc); (medicine) to metastasize
- attention
- to seek; to look for
- a speech; to speak; to talk; to address; CL:個|个[ge4]
- or; possibly; maybe; perhaps
- method; way; means (of doing sth); skill; ability; trick; wile
- to harm; to jeopardize; to endanger; harmful effect; damage
- society
- harmonious; harmony; (euphemism) to censor
- to return sth to sb