- 格 gē: 格 ge1: used in 格登[ge1 deng1]; used in 格格[ge1 ge1]格 gé: 格 ge2: square; lattice; grid; frame; compartment; partition; slot (within a larger unit); (bound form) standard; norm; specification; (bound form) character; disposition; moral quality; style; aesthetic tone; (bound form) rhetorical form; stylistic pattern; (bound form) (linguistics) grammatical case; (literary) to correct; to rectify; (literary) to arrive at; to reach; (literary) to obstruct; to hinder; (literary) to investigate exhaustively; classifier for compartments, slots or cells within a larger unit
- to pile up; (bound form) repeated; to fold; classifier: stack, pile (of thin objects); classifier for repeated sections in a musical composition
- dear; beloved; darling
- to arrive at (place or time); period; to become due; classifier for events, meetings, elections, sporting fixtures, years (of graduation)
- to write a letter
- to meet with (sb who is paying a visit); CL:次[ci4]
- to submit (a report etc); to refer (a problem) to sb
- to lodge a complaint
- evidence; proof; testimony
- ample; sufficient; adequate; full; fully; to the full
- to keep promises
- (idiom) willing to help others
- (bound form) at first; initially; (bound form) first; early; (bound form) (in lunar calendar dates, before numerals 1–10) days 1 to 10 of a month, as in 初三[chu1 san1] "the third"
- to start; to begin; to initiate (an era, process, journey etc); (computing) to enable (a feature); (of a system or device) to start operating automatically; to self-initiate; to open (sth that has been sealed)
- substance; essence
- to put one's hand to it; to start out on a task; to set out
- not having undergone; without (having gone though a certain process)
- (conjunction linking two nouns) and its ...; and their ...; and his ...; and her ...
- to accept; to adopt
- duty; obligation (CL:項|项[xiang4]); volunteer (work etc)
- to idealize
- freedom of speech
- to explore; to probe
- honesty; trustworthiness; good faith
- constructive; constructiveness
- to hold; to grasp; to support; to maintain; to persevere; to manage; to run (i.e. administer); to control
- manner; bearing; attitude; approach; CL:個|个[ge4]
- lead; leading; to lead; leadership; leader; CL:位[wei4],個|个[ge4]
- to know; to understand
- to be harmful (to)
- inside and outside; domestic and foreign; approximately; about
- as early as possible
- (used at the end of a letter to introduce a polite salutation)
- to salute; salute
- taciturn; uncommunicative; silent
- to feign; to pretend
- stress (on a syllable)