- thread; string; wire; line; CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3],根[gen1]; (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city)
- suspicious; dubious
- character; intrinsic quality (of a person); quality (of a product or service, or as in "quality of life", "air quality" etc)
- attack by a hidden enemy; a stab in the back
- without the slightest hesitation
- false; fake; forged; bogus; (prefix) pseudo-; Taiwan pr. [wei4]
- beneath the surface; fundamentally; at the deepest level
- (mild insult) fool; idiot; (playful) silly person
- to hit (a target)
- to eat up; to consume
- baozi; bao (steamed stuffed bun)
- (idiom) to escape unscathed; to get through in one piece
- strict; serious; solemn; dignified; to tidy up; to clean up; to purge; to adjust
- way; route; road
- candidate for the Imperial Examination proposed by a tributary state
- forced labor; corvée; obligatory task; military service; to use as servant; to enserf; servant (old); war; campaign; battle
- all levels
- to belittle; to disparage; to play down; to demean; to degrade; to devalue
- tool; instrument; utensil; means (to achieve a goal etc)
- net for fishing or bird catching; (fig.) fetters; to snare (a valuable new team member etc); to bring together under the one umbrella
- grade; rank; status
- middle (of a period of time); medium-term (plan, forecast etc)
- refers to academics employed as imperial secretaries from the Tang onwards, forming the Hanlin Imperial Academy 翰林院
- ancient office title; rich and important person
- assistant
- (of a man) able and virtuous
- whatever; no matter what (who, how etc); regardless of; not to discuss
- no less than; not inferior to
- earthquake
- (idiom) depressed; dispirited
- to injure; to harm
- as before; (same) as usual; in the same manner; still; nevertheless
- to be advantageous to; to be beneficial for
- bureaucrat; bureaucracy; bureaucratic
- difference; distinction; disparity