- 德 Dé: 德 De2: Germany; German; abbr. for 德國|德国[De2 guo2]德 dé: 德 de2: virtue; goodness; morality; ethics; kindness; favor; character; kind
- to set up; to establish
- head of state
- air crash; aviation accident or incident
- to free oneself; to extricate oneself from a difficult situation
- still; as before
- astonishing
- need not; not obliged to; not necessarily
- autocracy; dictatorship
- regent; monarch
- (idiom) to do whatever one pleases
- peculiar; unusual; queer
- why not?; why not do (sth)?
- 宁 zhù: 宁 zhu4: to store; to stand; space between the door and the entrance screen宁 níng: 宁 ning2: peaceful; to pacify; to visit (one's parents etc)宁 Níng: 宁 Ning2: abbr. for Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 寧夏回族自治區|宁夏回族自治区[Ning2 xia4 Hui2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 qu1]; abbr. for Nanjing 南京[Nan2 jing1]; surname Ning宁 nìng: 宁 ning4: would rather; to prefer; how (emphatic); Taiwan pr. [ning2]
- tall and sturdy
- beard; mustache or whiskers; facial hair; CL:撮[zuo3],根[gen1]; (coll.) bandit
- old fellow; old man; father; husband
- to dispatch sb to do sth; to make sb leave; to pass (the time); (old) to make arrangements; (old) to bestow (alms etc)
- hello (polite)
- adviser; consultant
- to provide assistance; to aid
- writing brush; writing implement (pen, pencil etc) (CL:支[zhi1],枝[zhi1]); brushstroke; stroke (in painting or calligraphy); (bound form) style of writing; literary manner; technique of brushwork; (classifier) stroke of a Chinese character; (classifier) sum of money; financial transaction; piece of business; (literary) to write (with a brush or pen)
- Midea (brand)
- to force a smile; a bitter laugh
- human relationship; order; coherence
- to handle official business (usu. in an office); to do (office) work
- to go to work; to be on duty; to start work; to go to the office
- regular meeting
- that very night; through the night; for several nights in a row
- Tokyo, capital of Japan; Tonkin (northern Vietnam during the French colonial period)
- to rush about; to be constantly on the move
- every year; each year; yearly
- to be at home; (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 出差[chu1 chai1]); (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 出家[chu1 jia1])
- (lead) pencil; CL:支[zhi1],枝[zhi1],桿|杆[gan3]
- snow-capped mountain
- (of terrain) mountainous; rugged; (of a situation) precarious; daunting