- senior official; senior officer; commanding officer; CL:位[wei4]; sir (term of address for senior officer)
- to test; to try; experiment; examination; test
- to appoint
- identity; aspect of one's identity (e.g. mayor, father, permanent resident); role; capacity (as in "in his capacity as ..." 以[yi3] + ... + 的身份[de5 shen1 fen4]); status (social, legal etc); position; rank
- see 威寧彝族回族苗族自治縣|威宁彝族回族苗族自治县[Wei1 ning2 Yi2 zu2 Hui2 zu2 Miao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]
- grave; tomb
- kin; kindred; relatives
- court examination, the top grade imperial exam
- gale; squall; whole gale (meteorology)
- to appear suddenly; projection; bit sticking out
- examination paper; test paper; CL:份[fen4],張|张[zhang1]
- the sky; the heavens
- an examiner (for tests, interviews etc); (old) imperial examination official
- 卷子 juàn zi: 卷子 juan4 zi5: test paper; examination paper卷子 juǎn zi: 卷子 juan3 zi5: steamed roll; spring roll
- 答 dá: 答 da2: to answer; to reply; to respond答 dā: 答 da1: bound form having the same meaning as the free word 答[da2], used in 答應|答应[da1 ying5], 答理[da1 li5] etc
- North Korea; Korea as geographic term; Taiwan pr. [Chao2xian1]
- (diplomatic) envoy
- to present tribute (to a suzerain, the emperor etc)
- unexpectedly; to one's surprise; in spite of everything; in that crazy way; actually; to go as far as to
- to bring; (fig.) to bring about; to produce
- king
- (literary, or bound form) to look at
- Celestial Empire, tributary title conferred on imperial China; Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
- to slight; to neglect
- emissary; envoy
- to bring back; to take back with one
- to travel over land and water (idiom)
- to float (in the air); to flutter; to waft; complacent; frivolous; weak; shaky; wobbly
- already; to be already so; to have long been the case
- enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out
- chronicle (of sb's life)
- to do textual research; to make textual criticism; to verify by means of research (esp. historical details); to take an exam to get a certificate (abbr. for 考取證件|考取证件[kao3 qu3 zheng4 jian4])
- to present as a gift
- bow and arrow
- to seem; to look; to appear
- engineering; an engineering project; project; undertaking; CL:個|个[ge4],項|项[xiang4]
- chief labor contractor
- especially; particularly; even more than usual; extra; additional
- dummy run; to run through sth; to rehearse
- migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work); temporary worker enlisted on a public project
- to drill; to practice
- to strike a balance between work and rest (idiom)
- on time; before deadline; on schedule