- to sign (one's name with a pen etc); to autograph; signature
- 大名 dà míng: 大名 da4 ming2: famous name; your distinguished name; one's formal personal name; (Japanese history) daimyo大名 Dà míng: 大名 Da4 ming2: see 大名縣|大名县[Da4 ming2 Xian4]
- in one's spare time; outside working hours; amateur (historian etc)
- to play mahjong or cards
- evening meal; dinner; supper; CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4],次[ci4],餐[can1]
- on time; punctual; on schedule
- signboard; plaque; plate; tablet (CL:塊|块[kuai4]); brand; trademark; mahjong tile; domino; playing card (CL:張|张[zhang1]); (bound form) fixed pattern for lyrics or set melody in classical poetry or music (used in 詞牌|词牌[ci2 pai2] and 曲牌[qu3 pai2])
- mahjong table; card table; gambling table; gaming table
- bustling with noise and excitement; lively
- mahjong; CL:局[ju2],副[fu4]
- to be known as; to be nicknamed; to be purportedly; to claim (often exaggeratedly or falsely)
- win or loss; outcome
- to take a percentage of the winnings (in gambling); tap (in an electromagnetic coil); drawer (of a desk etc)
- to accumulate; accumulation; cumulative; cumulatively
- worth seeing; considerable; impressive; significant
- numeral; digit; number; figure; amount; digital (electronics etc); CL:個|个[ge4]
- to interrupt (sb talking); to butt in; to cut into a conversation
- to authorize; to investigate then ratify
- (respectful) lord; master; (coll.) maternal grandfather
- not the same; different
- same type; category 1 (i.e. class A)
- (linguistics) noun; term (name for a concept)
- peer competition; to function as rivals; to make claims as an equal
- modest; self-effacing; to make modest remarks
- (idiom) to run neck and neck; to keep pace with; to keep abreast of; on par with one another
- one who is cut off from others (idiom); one who has chosen to follow a solitary path; (can also be an indirect way of referring to an unmarried person)
- to eliminate; to remove; to exclude; to rule out
- next day; the morrow
- a reception; CL:次[ci4]
- to hold a reception; to offer hospitality; to entertain (guests); to serve (customers)
- committee; commission
- to examine; to investigate; to censor out; censorship
- uncertain; remote; distant and indistinct; vague
- to plagiarize; to copy; to attack the flank or rear of an enemy
- trick; scheme; ploy; skill
- (of) all kinds and sorts; various