- to call; to be called
- to gather up; to collect; to edit; to compile
- cautious; careful; prudent
- parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law; relatives by marriage
- wife's father, father-in-law
- entire text; full text
- one time (all the way through); once through
- customary
- to mumble to oneself
- wording; way of expressing something; turn of phrase; diction
- to consider; to deliberate; to fill up a cup to the brim
- elder brother (often used self-referentially); (form of address between male friends) old chap; buddy
- 嘛 ma: 嘛 ma5: modal particle indicating that sth is obvious; particle indicating a pause for emphasis嘛 má: 嘛 ma2: used in 唵嘛呢叭咪吽[an3 ma2 ni2 ba1 mi1 hong1]; (Tw) (coll.) what?
- character; script; writing; written language; writing style; phraseology; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to think over
- to make every effort to; striving to do one's best
- fine work; carefully and neatly done
- careless; reckless; casually; absent-mindedly; at will; at random; any old how
- to interfere; to meddle; interference
- national politics; archaic rank, "Minister of State"; common given name
- lit. Xiang Zhuang performs the sword dance, but his mind is set on Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] (idiom, refers to plot to kill Liu Bang during the Hongmen feast 鴻門宴|鸿门宴[Hong2 men2 yan4] in 206 BC); fig. an elaborate deception hiding malicious intent
- (zoology) segment (of the body of a worm, centipede etc); (fig.) a part of an integrated whole: aspect (of a project), element (of a policy), sector (of the economy), stage (of a process) etc
- one's employment; business; matter that needs to be settled; (northern dialect) (of a person) demanding; trying; troublesome; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- to act tactfully; tactful; discreet
- to play a joke; to make fun of; to joke
- very loudly; at the top of one's voice
- to laugh heartily; a belly laugh
- efficacious; useful
- to hold in safekeeping; to have in one's care; to guarantee; certainly; surely; custodian; curator
- to write; to do the actual writing
- as one wishes; as one pleases; at random; negligent; casual; wanton
- to beg; to beseech; to entreat; entreaty
- unable to say
- as a rule; as usual; usually
- to put down; to leave behind; to throw or knock down; to abandon or discard
- to assign (a task to sb)
- Shanxi Province, capital Taiyuan 太原市[Tai4 yuan2 Shi4] (short name 晉|晋[Jin4])
- 页 xié: 页 xie2: head页 yè: 页 ye4: page; leaf
- kind; type; class; category; (classifier) kind; type; (bound form) to resemble; to be similar to
- simply; really