- question; problem; issue; topic; CL:個|个[ge4]
- core; nucleus
- to rest with; to lie in; to be due to (a certain attribute); (of a matter) to be determined by; to be up to (sb)
- grade; year (in school, college etc); CL:個|个[ge4]
- charming eyes; coquettish glances
- to care about; to mind
- to change into; to turn into; to become
- command; commander-in-chief
- 狮子 shī zi: 狮子 shi1 zi5: lion; CL:隻|只[zhi1],頭|头[tou2]狮子 Shī zǐ: 狮子 Shi1 zi3: Leo (star sign); Shihtzu township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[Ping2 dong1 Xian4], Taiwan
- public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal)
- same; like; equal to; the same as; just like
- stick; club; cudgel; smart; capable; strong; wonderful; classifier for legs of a relay race
- to treat as; to regard as
- dialectal equivalent of 什麼|什么[shen2 me5]; also pr. [sha4]
- restaurant; CL:家[jia1]
- 洗 xiǎn: 洗 xian3: used in 洗馬|洗马[xian3 ma3]洗 xǐ: 洗 xi3: to wash; to bathe; to develop (photographs); to shuffle (cards etc); to erase (a recording)
- tray; plate; dish; CL:個|个[ge4]
- self-taught; to learn without a teacher (idiom)
- somewhat; a bit
- Ah Q, antihero of Lu Xun's influential 1921 novella "The True Story of Ah Q" 阿Q正傳|阿Q正传[A1 Q Zheng4 zhuan4] ("Q" here is typically pronounced as [kiu1] or [qiu1])
- 精神 jīng shén: 精神 jing1 shen2: spirit; mind; consciousness; thought; mental; psychological; essence; gist; CL:個|个[ge4]精神 jīng shen: 精神 jing1 shen5: vigor; vitality; spirited; good-looking
- literature and language; (PRC) Chinese (as a school subject)
- teacher
- to hold; to seize; to catch; to apprehend; to take; (used in the same way as 把[ba3]: to mark the following noun as a direct object)
- to write an essay; composition (student essay); CL:篇[pian1]
- reverse side; backside; the other side (of a problem etc); negative; bad
- case; (for) instance; example; CL:個|个[ge4]
- subject; course; CL:門|门[men2]; class; lesson; CL:堂[tang2],節|节[jie2]; to levy; tax; form of divination
- (before a two-syllable verb) considerably; greatly (exaggerate); vehemently (oppose); severely (punish); extensively (refurbish); effusively (praise)
- not in the least; to completely lack
- to fantasize; to imagine; an illusion; a fantasy
- mood; state of mind; moodiness; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- enterprising spirit; initiative
- 当时 dàng shí: 当时 dang4 shi2: immediately; right then当时 dāng shí: 当时 dang1 shi2: then; at that time
- (bound form) to become visible (esp. on a surface or in perception)
- The Matrix (1999 movie)
- to have guts; to have courage; to be brave
- magical; mystical; miraculous
- capability; ability; CL:個|个[ge4]
- mysterious; mystery
- person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc); (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting
- to excavate; to explore; (fig.) to unearth; to tap into
- everyone