- to make a profit; to earn a packet
- profits
- an item in accounts; an entry
- name; designation; item; rubric; (formal usage) fame
- first year of an emperor's reign; first year of an era; first year of a significant time period
- ticket; ballot; banknote; CL:張|张[zhang1]; person held for ransom; amateur performance of Chinese opera; classifier for groups, batches, business transactions
- slowly; unhurriedly; little by little
- to invest
- according to the facts
- half of the day; a long time; quite a while
- old friend; former acquaintance
- well-off; wealthy
- habit; hobby
- lit. the rise and fall of the terrain (idiom); fig. the whole sequence of events; causes and effects
- to be very clear about sth (idiom)
- to save a little only to lose a lot (idiom)
- to injure; injury; wound
- already; to be already so; to have long been the case
- to pollute (often fig.); to be infected by; to gain a small advantage
- to decide and act alone (idiom); to take arbitrary action; a law unto oneself
- upright and outspoken
- wealth; money
- to accept a compromise
- it goes to show that; one can see
- (fig.) to follow (a path that has proved ill-advised)
- the tracks of a cart that overturned; (fig.) a path that led to failure in the past
- to ask for guidance; to consult
- to hurry; to hasten; to make haste
- sincerity; absolute good faith
- to invade and take control of (a territory); to take the helm at (an organization); (of a company) to take control of (another company)
- house; room; CL:間|间[jian1]
- 吉利 Jí lì: 吉利 Ji2 li4: Geely, Chinese car make吉利 jí lì: 吉利 ji2 li4: auspicious; lucky; propitious
- to abandon; to relinquish; to discard; to throw away
- an extravagant hope; to have excessive expectations
- ill luck; misfortune
- to believe firmly without any doubt (idiom); absolute certainty about sth
- check (bank); cheque; CL:本[ben3]
- the most important; of chief importance
- precondition; prerequisite
- 潭 tán: 潭 tan2: deep pool; pond; pit (dialect); depression潭 Tán: 潭 Tan2: surname Tan