- 白 bái: 白 bai2: white; snowy; pure; bright; empty; blank; plain; clear; to make clear; in vain; gratuitous; free of charge; reactionary; anti-communist; funeral; to stare coldly; to write wrong character; to state; to explain; vernacular; spoken lines in opera白 Bái: 白 Bai2: surname Bai; Bai ethnic group
- the whole family; the same family; the family ... (when preceded by a family name); group
- (of a child bride) to consummate marriage
- 玩 wán: 玩 wan2: to play; to have fun; to trifle with; toy; sth used for amusement; curio or antique (Taiwan pr. [wan4]); to keep sth for entertainment玩 wán: 玩 wan2: Taiwan pr. [wan4]
- non-physical abuse; emotional abuse; the silent treatment
- (respectful) lord; master; (coll.) maternal grandfather
- to get angry; to be furious; vitality; liveliness
- to be just about to; to be on the point of
- to search; to look for; to seek
- (dialect) oneself; by oneself
- to return; to come back
- reason; cause
- each one individually; each and every
- lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom); both funny and extremely embarrassing; between laughter and tears
- to prevent; to guard against; to take precautions
- bridegroom; groom
- everywhere
- to run around; to run about aimlessly
- official institution; state bureau
- to go to work; to be on duty; to start work; to go to the office
- "Times" (newspaper, e.g. New York Times)
- to handle; to deal with; to punish; to treat sth by a special process; to process; to sell at reduced prices
- official document
- time; one of the 12 two-hour periods of the day
- work; (lots of) things to do
- half of sth
- to fix; to settle; to wangle
- to practice; exercise; drill; practice; CL:個|个[ge4]
- calligraphy; handwriting; penmanship
- (idiom) bored to death; bored stiff; overcome with boredom
- mechanism; gear; machine-operated; office; agency; organ; organization; establishment; institution; body; stratagem; scheme; intrigue; plot; trick
- office; business premises
- to accumulate over a long period of time
- to submit an expense account; to apply for reimbursement; to write off; to wipe out
- famous; noted; well-known; celebrated
- to evaluate; to assess
- to cover up; to conceal; to close (a door, book etc); (coll.) to get (one's fingers etc) caught when closing a door or lid; (literary) to launch a surprise attack
- other; (sth or sb) else; the rest
- down to; up to; to the extent that...
- to conceal; to hide behind; to cover up
- name of a book; reputation as calligrapher
- to have unique (talent, insight etc)
- to rank (number 1, or third last etc); to be among (those who are in a particular group)