- lit. a boiling cauldron of voices (idiom); hubbub; brouhaha
- factory; CL:家[jia1],座[zuo4]
- company; firm; enterprise; corporation; CL:家[jia1]
- educated youth; young intellectual; (historical) urban youth with formal education who were sent to rural areas for re-education and labor during the Cultural Revolution (1960s–70s)
- long gown; cheongsam; traditional Asian dress for men or (in Hong Kong) women's qipao
- to come pouring in; influx
- (commodity) prices; CL:個|个[ge4]
- soaring inflation; rocketing prices
- rare commodity worth hoarding; object for profiteering
- stranger; outsider
- native person (of a country)
- to purchase
- the sciences (as opposed to the humanities 文科[wen2 ke1])
- to delay; to put off; to procrastinate
- war zone; combat zone; (military) theater of operations
- specialized subject; branch (of medicine); specialized training school
- to allocate funds; appropriation
- budget
- tall building
- lunatic ravings; nonsense
- dining hall; cafeteria; CL:個|个[ge4],間|间[jian1]
- office; business premises
- galvanized iron sheet (for building construction)
- see 白茅[bai2 mao2]
- clay
- to cut down; to reduce; to lower
- directly
- what are you doing?; what's he up to?
- wood
- quantity used; usage; consumption; dose
- lit. grass-cutter's comment (humble); fig. my observation as a humble layman; my humble opinion