- bar (place to buy drinks); CL:家[jia1]
- in advance; before the event
- to go (in a direction); to; towards; (of a train) bound for; past; previous
- name; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners); famous; classifier for people
- not to care
- talent; gift; genius; talented; gifted
- richly colorful
- grade; class; quality; level
- to envy; to admire
- principle; doctrine; CL:個|个[ge4]
- never
- relative purity of silver or gold; purity in carat weight; quality; fineness
- pure; simple; unmixed; genuine
- effeminate; old-womanish; garrulous; fainthearted; overly careful; overly sensitive; maudlin
- not to let sb down; to treat sb fairly; be worthy of
- not equal to; not as good as; inferior to; it would be better to
- to take the initiative; to do sth of one's own accord; spontaneous; active; opposite: passive 被動|被动[bei4 dong4]; drive (of gears and shafts etc)
- to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart; (used after a verb) extremely
- 咱 zá: 咱 za2: see 咱[zan2]咱 zán: 咱 zan2: I or me; we (including both the speaker and the person spoken to)
- urgent; pressing; rapid; hurried; worried; to make (sb) anxious
- to shake out
- young and tender; (of food) tender; lightly cooked; (of color) light; (of a person) inexperienced; unskilled
- for a moment; momentarily
- to sob; to whimper
- elder brother
- (affectionate form of address for a male who is not very much younger than oneself) my boy; old pal
- related; brought together by fate
- to take care of (a matter); to deal with (a task, procedure etc); to organize (an event); to establish; to set up; to manage; to run (an enterprise); (law) to handle; to investigate; to prosecute (a case or suspect); (bound form) office (as in 招辦|招办[zhao1 ban4], admissions office) (abbr. for 辦公室|办公室[ban4 gong1 shi4])
- long table; counter; (coll.) case (criminal, medical etc); matter; project; job
- to send; to deliver; to transmit; to give (as a present); to see (sb) off; to accompany; to go along with
- trouble; inconvenience; inconvenient; troublesome; annoying; to bother sb; to put sb to trouble
- lawyer
- shoulder; to shoulder (responsibilities etc)
- to support with the hand; to help sb up; to support oneself by holding onto something; to help
- to approach; to lean close to
- 喷 pèn: 喷 pen4: (of a smell) strong; peak season (of a crop); (classifier for the ordinal number of a crop, in the context of multiple harvests)喷 pēn: 喷 pen1: to spout; to spurt; to spray; to puff; (slang) to criticize scathingly (esp. online)
- to come across (sb); to run into
- joke; jest; to laugh at; to mock; ridiculous; absurd
- execution ground
- to complain; to grumble; to harbor a complaint; to feel dissatisfied
- land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule