- to become a common practice; to become a trend
- the first time; for the first time
- front line
- (bound form) dark; dull (color); dim; gloomy
- to strictly maintain
- mistake; slip-up
- (coll.) top-notch; first-rate; outstanding
- itself; in itself; per se
- to do good works; to be merciful
- four (banker's anti-fraud numeral); unrestrained; wanton; (literary) shop
- dim; dark; overcast; darkness; shadow; (fig.) dismal; gloomy; somber; murky; shadowy (side)
- (martial arts) formalized move
- to delay; to hold up; to waste time; to interfere with
- to undertake advanced studies; to take a refresher course
- fraction; slightest difference; hairsbreadth
- to explain (verbally); to give a running commentary
- real intention; true meaning; correct interpretation
- insignificant soldier (idiom); a nobody; nonentity
- urgent; pressing
- to break a promise; to violate an agreement; to default (on a loan or contract)
- to compel; to force
- decaliter
- to have a high temperature (from illness); to have a fever; (fig.) to be fascinated with; to obsess over; (fig.) flourishing; thriving; popular
- to be nothing difficult; to be a cinch
- mouth (CL:張|张[zhang1]); slap in the face
- (coll.) to have a sense of shame
- index (loanword)
- to work; to operate; to revolve; to turn around
- pure; simple; unmixed; genuine
- to hear but not react (idiom); to turn a deaf ear; to ignore deliberately
- well-known for sth; to become well known; to make one's mark; to lend one's name (to an event, endeavor etc)
- to plant; to grow; to insert; to erect (e.g. a bus stop sign); to impose sth on sb; to stumble; to fall down
- under sb's name
- to talk about this and that (idiom); to ramble incoherently
- stump; stake; pile; classifier for events, cases, transactions, affairs etc
- sinister; insidious
- adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)
- to beg
- secret recipe
- sickening; corny; sappy; maudlin; fulsome (of praise)
- without any sense of shame; unembarrassed; shameless