- to investigate; to check and research; exquisite
- leather suitcase
- to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); (of a line) to be dead; to be worried; to be concerned; (dialect) to make a phone call; to register (at a hospital); to make an appointment (with a doctor); (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam); classifier for sets or clusters of objects
- 长 cháng: 长 chang2: long; (bound form) length; (bound form) strong point; forte; (bound form) to be good at; (literary) surplus; spare (Taiwan pr. [zhang4])长 zhǎng: 长 zhang3: chief; head; elder; to grow; to develop; to increase; to enhance
- to appear; to look; form; shape
- bag
- ought to; should; must
- China
- 口音 kǒu yīn: 口音 kou3 yin1: (linguistics) oral speech sounds口音 kǒu yin: 口音 kou3 yin5: voice; accent
- nevertheless; actually; the fact is ...
- standard; norm; criterion; (adjective) standard; good; correct; conforming to a standard
- but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though
- when
- to be close to; to approach; to draw near
- (coll.) exactly!; indeed; that's for sure
- 么 me: 么 me5: suffix, used to form interrogative 什麼|什么[shen2 me5], what?, indefinite 這麼|这么[zhe4 me5] thus, etc么 ma: 么 ma5: interrogative final particle么 má: 么 ma2: exclamatory final particle么 Yāo: 么 Yao1: surname Yao么 yāo: 么 yao1: youngest; most junior; tiny; one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military); one or ace on dice or dominoes
- so much; this much; how much?; this way; like this
- lonely; lonesome; (of a place) quiet; silent
- sea area; territorial waters; maritime space
- each; every
- seat; base; stand; (bound form) constellation; (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address (e.g. 師座|师座[shi1 zuo4]); classifier for large immovable objects such as buildings, mountains, bridges etc
- iconic
- to rise; to raise; to get up; to set out; to start; to appear; to launch; to initiate (action); to draft; to establish; to get (from a depot or counter); verb suffix, to start; starting from (a time, place, price etc); classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance; classifier for groups: batch, group
- name (of a person or thing); CL:個|个[ge4]
- chest; heart; mind
- to resemble; to be like; to look as if; such as; appearance; image; portrait; image under a mapping (math.)
- forever; eternal
- 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 see
- she
- need not
- theodolite
- to know; to become aware of; also pr. [zhi1dao5]
- which; who
- sighing with emotion
- how?; what?; why?
- to call; to address as; form of address; appellation
- you (courteous, as opposed to informal 你[ni3])
- 楚 chǔ: 楚 chu3: distinct; clear; orderly; pain; suffering; deciduous bush used in Chinese medicine (genus Vitex); punishment cane (old)楚 Chǔ: 楚 Chu3: surname Chu; abbr. for Hubei 湖北省[Hu2 bei3 Sheng3] and Hunan 湖南省[Hu2 nan2 Sheng3] provinces together; Chinese kingdom during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (722–221 BC)
- 子 zǐ: 子 zi3: son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat; viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-子 zi: 子 zi5: noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
- boat; ship; craft; to navigate; to sail; to fly
- 为 wéi: 为 wei2: as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice)为 wèi: 为 wei4: because of; for; to
- to serve (in some capacity); to work for
- to think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that); to desire; to want (to); to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)