- to wait for; to await; by the time; when; till; and so on; etc.; et al.; (bound form) class; rank; grade; (bound form) equal to; same as; (used to end an enumeration); (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun)
- to suppose; to presume; to assume; supposing that ...; if; hypothesis; conjecture
- to deceive; to cheat
- to question closely; to investigate in detail; to examine minutely; to get to the heart of the matter
- nickname
- reluctant to admit a mistake
- in fact; in reality; as a matter of fact; in practice
- 加 jiā: 加 jia1: to add; (math.) plus; to increase; to augment; (used before a disyllabic verb, often after an adverb like 不[bu4], 大[da4], 稍[shao1] etc, to indicate that the action applies to sth previously mentioned, as in 稍加改良[shao1 jia1 gai3 liang2] "make some minor improvements to (it)")加 Jiā: 加 Jia1: Canada (abbr. for 加拿大[Jia1 na2 da4]); surname Jia
- suffix (linguistics)
- to address sb directly by name; to address sb by name without using an honorific title (indicating familiarity or overfamiliarity)
- explanation; to explain; to interpret; to resolve; CL:個|个[ge4]
- taciturn; uncommunicative; silent
- to reply
- to cover; to encase; cover; sheath; to overlap; to interleave; to model after; to copy; formula; harness; loop of rope; (fig.) to fish for; to obtain slyly; classifier for sets, collections; bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names); tau (Greek letter Ττ)
- to pretend; to feign; to act a part
- matching; fitting in with; compatible with; to correspond; to fit; to conform to; rapport; to coordinate with; to act in concert with; to cooperate; to become man and wife; to combine parts of machine
- 通 tōng: 通 tong1: to go through; to know well; (suffix) expert; to connect; to communicate; open; to clear; classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc通 tòng: 通 tong4: classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)
- in this world; under the sun
- 夏 Xià: 夏 Xia4: the Xia or Hsia dynasty c. 2000 BC; Xia of the Sixteen Kingdoms (407–432); surname Xia夏 xià: 夏 xia4: summer
- (idiom) chaotic; in disorder; muddled
- to shout
- at the same time; simultaneously
- to make a telephone call
- to violate (a law)
- (romantic) love; CL:個|个[ge4],場|场[chang3]; in love; to have an affair
- rule; regulation; regular; orderly; fixed
- police station; police department; police headquarters
- body; life; oneself; personally; one's morality and conduct; the main part of a structure or body; pregnant; classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset; Kangxi radical 158
- café; coffee shop; CL:家[jia1]
- aimless; at random
- to survey the scene from an elevated position
- streetscape
- prey; quarry
- to have an opportunity that one can exploit (idiom)
- an ideal; a dream; ideal; perfect
- target; goal; objective; CL:個|个[ge4]
- gap; unoccupied space or time; fig. gap; loophole
- 钻 zuān: 钻 zuan1: to drill; to bore; to get into; to make one's way into; to enter (a hole); to thread one's way through; to study intensively; to dig into; to curry favor for personal gain钻 zuàn: 钻 zuan4: drill; auger; diamond
- to manufacture; to make
- only; merely; nothing but; no more than; it's just that ...
- 工夫 gōng fū: 工夫 gong1 fu1: (old) laborer工夫 gōng fu: 工夫 gong1 fu5: period of time (may be months, or mere seconds); spare time; skill; labor; effort
- extreme