- to submit; to yield; to bow to sb's will
- to speed along
- Yanjing, an old name for Beijing; capital of Yan at different periods
- breath; news; interest (on an investment or loan); to cease; to stop; to rest; Taiwan pr. [xi2]
- to dismount from a horse; (fig.) to abandon (a project)
- (dialect) neck
- to rub; to scratch; to wipe; to polish; to apply (lipstick, lotion etc); to brush (past); to shred (a vegetable etc)
- to put one's hand to it; to start out on a task; to set out
- relatively; opposite; to resist; to oppose; relative; vis-a-vis; counterpart
- thousands of words (idiom); having a lot of things to say; talking nonstop
- even if; even though
- interlinked; connected; communicating; in communication; accommodating
- intention; regard; kindly feelings
- to lay down; to put down; to let go of; to relinquish; to set aside; to lower (the blinds etc)
- leather purse; fig. human body
- brook; streamlet
- to moisten; to dampen; to be steeped in; to be imbued with
- spellbound; entranced; lost in thought
- plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals
- to lead along; to pull (an animal on a tether); (bound form) to involve; to draw in
- lit. to chop the nail and slice the iron (idiom); fig. resolute and decisive; unhesitating; categorical
- but; however
- (coll.) exactly!; indeed; that's for sure
- words; expression; what one says
- to speak in defense of; to argue in favor of; to defend; to plead
- oral; verbal
- apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他，誰也沒來|除了他，谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語，他也會法語|除了英语，他也会法语[chu2 le5 Ying1 yu3 , ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3 yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French"); (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了[chu2 le5] + A + 就是[jiu4 shi4] + B, "either A or B")
- at first; in the beginning
- to think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)
- laughable; funny; ridiculous
- to move (sb); to touch (sb emotionally); moving
- useless
- deep in the mountains