- 着 zhúo: 着 zhuo2: to wear (clothes); to contact; to use; to apply着 zhāo: 着 zhao1: a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]); trick; tactic; (dialect) okay; all right; (dialect) to put in; to add着 zháo: 着 zhao2: to touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding in着 zhe: 着 zhe5: aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
- to sing
- to sing; to call loudly; to chant
- to see someone off; to throw someone a send-off party
- 都 Dū: 都 Du1: surname Du都 dōu: 都 dou1: all; both; entirely; (used for emphasis) even; already; (not) at all都 dū: 都 du1: capital city; metropolis
- to fall; to drop; to land (of projectile)
- tear; teardrop; CL:滴[di1]
- to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb); hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2 lai5]); ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]); for the past (amount of time); (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2 shi4]); (between two verbs) in order to; (after a round number) approximately; (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])
- afterwards; later; newly arrived
- (once) again; also; both... and...; and yet; (used for emphasis) anyway
- to open (one's eyes) wide; to stare at; to glare at
- 大 dà: 大 da4: big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)大 dài: 大 dai4: see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
- lit. hair stands up in anger and tips off one's hat (idiom); fig. seething in anger; raise one's hackles
- to enter; to join; to go into
- the state of Qin, one of the seven states of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
- affair; matter; thing; business; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- to be defeated; to lose; to fail (e.g. experiments); failure; defeat; CL:次[ci4]
- name; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners); famous; classifier for people
- 给 gěi: 给 gei3: to; for; for the benefit of; to give; to allow; to do sth (for sb); (grammatical equivalent of 被); (grammatical equivalent of 把); (sentence intensifier)给 jǐ: 给 ji3: to supply; to provide
- to make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc); (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc); (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for; to assume (an air or manner)
- to cover up; to hide; to conceal
- (concept of) time; (duration of) time; (point in) time
- work; manual labor
- very; completely; utterly; extremely; absolutely; hundred percent; to divide into ten equal parts
- exhausting; hard; tough; arduous; to work hard; to go to a lot of trouble; hardship(s)
- to hear
- hall
- visitor; guest; customer; client; CL:位[wei4]
- to feel; to sense; to perceive
- to itch to demonstrate one's skill
- cannot help; unable to bear
- to comment on; to discuss; comment; commentary; CL:篇[pian1]
- 说 shùi: 说 shui4: to persuade说 shūo: 说 shuo1: to speak; to talk; to say; to explain; to comment; to scold; to tell off; (bound form) theory; doctrine
- to perform on a musical instrument
- 地方 dì fang: 地方 di4 fang5: place; location; area; space; territory; aspect; part; CL:處|处[chu4]地方 dì fāng: 地方 di4 fang1: region; regional (away from the central administration); local
- 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
- no good
- to accompany; to follow; to attend; entourage; attendant
- 告诉 gào su: 告诉 gao4 su5: to tell; to inform; to let know告诉 gào sù: 告诉 gao4 su4: to press charges; to file a complaint
- that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler, similar to "umm", "you know" etc); (euph.) menstruation; sex; also pr. [nei4 ge5]
- to understand; to comprehend
- music; CL:張|张[zhang1],曲[qu3],段[duan4]
- privately; secretly; confidentially
- to summon; to beckon; to call
- to advance; to step forward
- to be present
- to bestow; to give
- good wine; fine liquor