- to live or die; to exist or perish
- does not count for anything; of no account
- to advance; in advance; beforehand; to prepare
- (bound form) to differentiate; to distinguish; (bound form) clearly (different); to judge; to decide; to grade; (of a judge) to sentence
- there is not much left
- mile (unit of length equal to 1.609 km)
- to convert; conversion; (in accounting, referring to currency conversion) translation
- metric system
- lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom); both funny and extremely embarrassing; between laughter and tears
- cherished desire; dream; craving; wish; aspiration
- to prevail; to have one's way; to get away with it
- front sight (firearms); the zero point indicator marked on a steelyard
- to move (sth) aside; to step aside; to move over (when sitting on a bench); to shift (one's gaze)
- to fear
- to meet the enemy head-on
- obstructed; to fail; to oppress; to repress; to lower the tone; to bend back; to dampen
- power; might; prestige
- bolt of gun
- to restore sb or sth to its original position; to regain the throne; to reset (a dislocated joint, an electronic device etc); reset
- (of a car, ship, train etc) to enter
- coin; CL:枚[mei2]
- public phone; CL:部[bu4]
- to get through to sb on the phone
- last bus or train; last chance
- ash; dust; lime; gray; discouraged; dejected
- to dispatch a vehicle; (of a vehicle or its driver) to set off
- swaying; wobbling
- ticket (for a bus or train)
- goodbye; see you again later
- the North Pole; the north magnetic pole
- hello; hi
- great changes; ups and downs; vicissitudes; abbr. of 滄海桑田|沧海桑田[cang1 hai3 sang1 tian2]
- sweet-sounding; beautiful (of sound)
- organ; pipe organ
- to sob; to whimper
- Soviet (council)
- (loanword) vodka
- lit. sinking and floating; to bob up and down on water; ebb and flow; fig. rise and fall; ups and downs of fortune; vicissitudes
- pouring; flooding