- a huge sum; an enormous amount (of money)
- wealth; riches
- to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire); to live; to be alive; life; raw; uncooked; unprocessed; unfamiliar; strange; (bound form) student; person engaged in a field; (bound form) male role in traditional opera; (bound form) life; lifetime; (bound form) means of livelihood; (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2]); (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
- 片 piān: 片 pian1: disk; sheet片 piàn: 片 pian4: thin piece; flake; a slice; film; TV play; to slice; to carve thin; partial; incomplete; one-sided; classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water; classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc; used with numeral 一[yi1]: classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc; Kangxi radical 91
- life (as the characteristic of living beings); living being; creature (CL:條|条[tiao2])
- to manufacture; to make
- to go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield; to go beyond; to exceed; (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result); classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
- small; tiny; few; young
- Las Vegas, Nevada
- to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb); hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2 lai5]); ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]); for the past (amount of time); (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2 shi4]); (between two verbs) in order to; (after a round number) approximately; (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])
- first; primary; initial; original; at first; initially; originally
- plan; project; program; to plan; to map out; CL:個|个[ge4],項|项[xiang4]
- to use for the purpose of; to serve as
- to undertake; to assume (responsibility etc)
- front; forward; ahead; first; top (followed by a number); future; ago; before; BC (e.g. 前293年); former; formerly
- Soviet Union, 1922-1991; abbr. for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) 蘇維埃社會主義共和國聯盟|苏维埃社会主义共和国联盟[Su1 wei2 ai1 She4 hui4 zhu3 yi4 Gong4 he2 guo2 Lian2 meng2]
- the North Pole; the north magnetic pole
- (of a group of people or a convoy of vehicles) to set off
- to break up into components; to disintegrate; to collapse; to crumble
- thereupon; subsequently; accordingly
- (coll.) to fizzle out; to come to nothing; to dawdle; to stall; (Tw) to have a soak in a hot spring bath
- to build; to construct
- to throw into; to put into; to throw oneself into; to participate in; to invest in; absorbed; engrossed
- (for) civilian use
- to transform; to reform; to remodel; to remold
- 成 Chéng: 成 Cheng2: surname Cheng; short name for Chengdu 成都[Cheng2 du1]成 chéng: 成 cheng2: to succeed; to finish; to complete; to accomplish; to become; to turn into; to be all right; OK!; one tenth
- luxurious
- to bet; to gamble
- entire year; throughout the year; age at death
- (military) to patrol (airspace or waters); (technical) to cruise; to maintain steady speed
- the high seas; international waters
- to appreciate; to enjoy; to admire
- scene; view; sight; landscape; to be well-regarded; to be well-off; grand (dialect); impressive (dialect)
- therefore; as a result; so; the reason why
- even if; even though; right away; immediately
- ship ticket
- value; worth; (ethical, cultural etc) values
- considerable (cost etc); bountiful (crop etc); high (social status etc)
- 趟 tàng: 趟 tang4: classifier for times, round trips or rows; a time; a trip趟 tāng: 趟 tang1: to wade; to trample; to turn the soil
- Christmas; birthday of reigning Emperor; Confucius' birthday
- trip; travel; to travel; brigade (army)
- strip; item; article; clause (of law or treaty); classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)
- in total there are ...; to own jointly