- general; admiral; air chief marshal
- organism; living creature; life form; biological; CL:個|个[ge4]
- lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers; innumerable; thousands upon thousands
- novel; new; exotic
- to hold; to grasp; to support; to maintain; to persevere; to manage; to run (i.e. administer); to control
- ambition; desire for self-improvement
- conceited; to take responsibility
- to be included among those selected for
- year (e.g. school year, fiscal year); annual
- the man (or woman) of the moment (idiom); influential figure
- 马 Mǎ: 马 Ma3: surname Ma; abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4]马 mǎ: 马 ma3: horse; CL:匹[pi3]; horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess; knight in Western chess
- happy expression; cheerful look
- headache
- lit. to put everything out including the tray; to reveal everything; to make a clean breast of it all
- to fear; afraid; extremely nervous; for fear that; to avoid; so as not to
- thermodynamics
- indoor
- horizontal; level; a standard; a level (of ability, development etc)
- rotten idea
- poisonous
- colloid; gelatinous matter
- to cultivate; to breed; to foster; to nurture; to educate; to groom (for a position); education; fostering; culture (biology)
- to deceive others and to deceive oneself; to believe one's own lies
- 芥 gài: 芥 gai4: see 芥藍|芥蓝[gai4 lan2]芥 jiè: 芥 jie4: mustard
- vegetable seeds; rapeseed
- seed; CL:顆|颗[ke1],粒[li4]
- to survive (a serious accident); survival
- heavy; hard; serious; critical
- to rack one's brains (idiom); to take great pains to think sth through
- garden (for flowers, ornamental plants etc); (landscaped) park; yard with decorative plants; CL:座[zuo4]
- (in an expression of the form 起到[qi3 dao4] + … + 作用[zuo4 yong4]) to have (a (motivating etc) effect); to play (a (stabilizing etc) role)
- sharply; distinctly; radically
- to shrink back; to cower
- volunteer
- investigation; inquiry; to investigate; to survey; survey; (opinion) poll; CL:項|项[xiang4],個|个[ge4]
- to revamp; a face-lift; to retread (a tire); to refurbish (old clothes); newly emerging
- intercontinental
- ballistic missile
- to use for the purpose of; to serve as