- to rotate; to twirl; to run around; to encircle; rotation; (coll.) to speak indirectly; to beat about the bush
- to regulate; to control
- lesson; schoolwork
- to cultivate; to train; to groom; training
- to take upon oneself; to assume
- core; nucleus
- to force entrance into; to score a goal (sport)
- to purchase (sth expensive, e.g. a house); to acquire (a company, a copyright etc)
- classifier for houses or buildings; ridgepole (old)
- (literary) to storm and capture; strategy; directions; guide; how-to
- to raise; to increase
- tight; strict; closely controlled; rigorous and thorough
- developer (of real estate, a commercial product etc)
- to adopt; to employ; to use
- to change into
- (communications) channel; thoroughfare; passage
- mark; sign; label; to mark with a symbol, label, lettering etc; to bear (a brand name, registration number etc); prize; award; bid; target; quota; (old) the topmost branches of a tree; visible symptom; classifier for military units
- stair; staircase; CL:個|个[ge4]
- fire exit; (firefighting) fire lane
- ventilation duct
- place; location; (after a noun) place where it is located
- to change train (plane, bus etc); transfer between modes of transport
- pass; gateway; (fig.) juncture
- 下面 xià miàn: 下面 xia4 mian4: below; under; next; the following; also pr. [xia4 mian5]下面 xià miàn: 下面 xia4 mian4: to boil noodles
- 底 dǐ: 底 di3: bottom; base; background; foundation; copy (of a manuscript or receipt etc) kept as a record; (suffix) end of a year or month; (math.) radix; base (abbr. for 底數|底数[di3 shu4])底 de: 底 de5: (equivalent to 的 as possessive particle)
- 商 shāng: 商 shang1: commerce; merchant; dealer; to consult; 2nd note in pentatonic scale; quotient (as in 智商[zhi4 shang1], intelligence quotient)商 Shāng: 商 Shang1: Shang Dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC); surname Shang
- to shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc); (medicine) to metastasize
- to doubt; to distrust; unconvincing; to puzzle over; misgivings; suspicions
- to reach (a place) directly; (transportation) to reach the destination without changing service or without stopping; (of a train, flight etc) direct; nonstop
- headphones; earphones; telephone receiver
- 联通 lián tōng: 联通 lian2 tong1: connection; link; to link together联通 Lián tōng: 联通 Lian2 tong1: China United Telecommunications Corporation; aka China Unicom or Unicom; abbr. for 中國聯通|中国联通
- degree of difficulty
- concentration (percentage of dissolved material in a solution); consistency; thickness; density; viscosity
- to warn repeatedly; to urge; to exhort again and again
- West Africa