to make; to produce / to write; to compose / to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc) / (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc) / (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for / to assume (an air or manner)

within; among; in / middle; center / while (doing sth); during / (dialect) OK; all right

to have; there is / (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意 intentional)

some / a few / a little / (following an adjective) slightly ...er

between / among / within a definite time or space / room / section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars / classifier for rooms

to hold / to seize / to catch / to apprehend / to take / (used in the same way as 把: to mark the following noun as a direct object)

to leave; to part (from) / (literary) to differentiate; to distinguish / (bound form) other; another; different / don't ...! / to fasten with a pin or clip / to stick in; to insert (in order to hinder movement) / (noun suffix) category (e.g. 性別｜性别, 派別｜派别)

ordinal number / day of a month / mark / sign / business establishment / size / ship suffix / horn (wind instrument) / bugle call / assumed name / to take a pulse / classifier used to indicate number of people

to want; to need; to ask for / will; shall; about to / need to; should / if (same as 要是) / (bound form) important

(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then / (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after / (same as 就是) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly / only; as little as / as much as; as many as / to approach; to move towards / to undertake; to engage in / (often followed by 著｜着) taking advantage of / (of food) to go with / with regard to; concerning / (pattern: 就 ... 也 ...) even if ... still ... / (pattern: 不 ... 就 ...) if not ... then must be ...

to walk / to go / to travel / a visit / temporary / makeshift / current / in circulation / to do / to perform / capable / competent / effective / all right / OK! / will do / behavior / conduct / Taiwan pr. [xing4] for the behavior-conduct sense

to send; to deliver; to transmit / to give (as a present) / to see (sb) off / to accompany; to go along with

house with more than 1 story / storied building / floor / CL: 層｜层, 座, 棟｜栋

to think (about) / to think of; to devise / to think (that); to believe (that) / to desire; to want (to) / to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)

gate / door / CL: 扇 / gateway / doorway / CL: 個｜个 / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

(bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with / one of the ten heavenly stems 天干 / (archaic) shield

(joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. [han4]) / (math.) sum / to make peace / (sports) to draw; to tie / (bound form) harmonious / (bound form) Japan; Japanese

wind / news / style / custom / manner / CL: 陣｜阵, 絲｜丝

mistake / wrong / bad / interlocking / complex / to grind / to polish / to alternate / to stagger / to miss / to let slip / to evade / to inlay with gold or silver

rapid / quick / speed / rate / soon / almost / to make haste / clever / sharp (of knives or wits) / forthright / plainspoken / gratified / pleased / pleasant

to open / to show (a ticket) / to turn on / to switch on

in the same place / together / with / altogether (in total)

to listen to; to hear / to heed; to obey / a can (loanword from English "tin") / classifier for canned beverages / to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4]) / (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4])

the middle; the inside / in the middle; within; between; among / during; in the meantime

car / vehicle / CL: 輛｜辆 / machine / to shape with a lathe / Kangxi radical 159

very; quite / (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)

particle indicating that a previously asked question is to be applied to the preceding word ("What about ...?", "And ...?") / particle for inquiring about location ("Where is ...?") / particle signaling a pause, to emphasize the preceding words and allow the listener time to take them on board ("ok?", "are you with me?") / (at the end of a declarative sentence) particle indicating continuation of a state or action / particle indicating strong affirmation

zero / nought / zero sign / fractional / fragmentary / odd (of numbers) / (placed between two numbers to indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one) / fraction / (in mathematics) remainder (after division) / extra / to wither and fall / to wither

to know / to recognize / to be familiar with / to get acquainted with sb / knowledge / understanding / awareness / cognition

the day after tomorrow / life after birth (the period in which one develops through experiences, contrasted with 先天) / acquired (not innate or congenital) / a posteriori

to play ball / to play with a ball

heel / to follow closely / to go with / (of a woman) to marry sb / with / compared with / to / towards / and (joining two nouns)

happy / glad / willing (to do sth) / in a cheerful mood

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

thin piece / flake / a slice / film / TV play / to slice / to carve thin / partial / incomplete / one-sided / classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water / classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc / used with numeral 一: classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc / Kangxi radical 91

to do / to manage / to handle / to go about / to run / to set up / to deal with

letter / mail / CL: 封 / to trust / to believe / to profess faith in / truthful / confidence / trust / at will / at random

that level or lower / that amount or less / the following

to fall / to drop / to lag behind / to lose / to go missing / to reduce / fall (in prices) / to lose (value, weight etc) / to wag / to swing / to turn / to change / to exchange / to swap / to show off / to shed (hair) / (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc)

face / side / surface / aspect / top / classifier for objects with flat surfaces such as drums, mirrors, flags etc

after / later / afterwards / following / later on / in the future

wine shop / pub (public house) / hotel / restaurant / (Tw) hostess club

name / noun (part of speech) / place (e.g. among winners) / famous / classifier for people

bottle / vase / pitcher / CL: 個｜个 / classifier for wine and liquids

to add oil; to top up with gas; to refuel / to accelerate; to step on the gas / (fig.) to make an extra effort; to cheer sb on

structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc

towards / to face / to turn towards / direction / to support / to side with / shortly before / formerly / always / all along / (suffix) suitable for ... / oriented to ...

to be / to act as / manage / withstand / when / during / ought / should / match equally / equal / same / obstruct / just at (a time or place) / on the spot / right / just at

to exchange / to change (clothes etc) / to substitute / to switch / to convert (currency)

modal particle ending sentence, showing affirmation, approval, or consent

idea / opinion / meaning / wish / desire / interest / fun / token of appreciation, affection etc / CL: 個｜个 / to give as a small token / to do sth as a gesture of goodwill etc

whole nation / nationwide / countrywide / national

snow / CL: 場｜场 / (literary) to wipe away (a humiliation etc)

to do / to manage / to handle / to play with / to fool with / to mess with / to fix / to toy with

to borrow / (used in combination with 給｜给 or 出 etc) to lend / to make use of; to avail oneself of / (sometimes followed by 著｜着) by; with

to raise (an issue) / to propose / to put forward / to suggest / to post (on a website) / to withdraw (cash)

although; even though (often used correlatively with 可是 or 但是 etc)

winter / CL: 個｜个

will / shall / to be going to

straight / erect / to stick out (a part of the body) / to (physically) straighten up / to support / to withstand / outstanding / (coll.) quite / very / classifier for machine guns

Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 詞典｜词典, which has entries for words of one or more characters) / (coll.) dictionary / CL: 本

smoothly; without a hitch

to talk (with sb) / dialogue; conversation

to affix a seal / to stamp / to print out (with a printer)

to touch / to meet with / to bump

wine (esp. rice wine) / liquor / spirits / alcoholic beverage / CL: 杯, 瓶, 罐, 桶, 缸

pedestrian / traveler on foot / passer-by / official responsible for arranging audiences with the emperor

to leave / to part from / to be away from / (in giving distances) from / without (sth) / independent of / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦, symbolizing fire / ☲

safe and sound / well / without mishap / quiet and safe / at peace

to blow / to play a wind instrument / to blast / to puff / to boast / to brag / to end in failure / to fall through

to wish / to want / ready / willing (to do sth)

married woman / Mrs. / Madam / wife / CL: 個｜个, 位

as one wishes / as one pleases / at random / negligent / casual / wanton

to take out / to put out / to provide / to put forward (a proposal) / to come up with (evidence)

picture / drawing / painting

to make friends / (dialect) to start an affair with sb

to accept / to take / next / following

to solve; to resolve; to settle (a problem) / to eliminate; to wipe out (an enemy, bandits etc)

beautiful / very satisfactory; good / to beautify / to be pleased with oneself

original / originally / at first / it goes without saying / of course

inside / inner / internal / within / interior

according to / in accordance with / in the light of / on the basis of

broken / damaged / worn out / lousy / rotten / to break, split or cleave / to get rid of / to destroy / to break with / to defeat / to capture (a city etc) / to expose the truth of

quilt / to cover (with) / (literary) to suffer (a misfortune) / used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb) / (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊｜被旅游 to "go on a trip")

to go for / to engage in / to undertake / to deal with / to handle / to do

diagram / picture / drawing / chart / map / CL: 張｜张 / to plan / to scheme / to attempt / to pursue / to seek

to hold; to grasp / to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate / handlebar / classifier: handful, bundle, bunch / classifier for things with handles / (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb})

thread / string / wire / line / CL: 條｜条, 股, 根 / (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city)

and / furthermore / also / together with / (not) at all / simultaneously / to combine / to join / to merge

relation / relationship / to concern / to affect / to have to do with / guanxi / CL: 個｜个

to allow / to grant / in accordance with / in the light of

to handle; to deal with / to punish / to treat sth by a special process; to process / to sell at reduced prices

timely; at the right time / promptly; without delay

below / under / next / the following / also pr. [xia4 mian5]

only have ... / there is only ... / (used in combination with 才) it is only if one ... (that one can ...) (Example: 只有通過治療才能痊愈｜只有通过治疗才能痊愈 "the only way to cure it is with therapy") / it is only ... (who ...) (Example: 只有男性才有此需要 "only men would have such a requirement") / (used to indicate that one has no alternative) one can only (do a certain thing) (Example: 只有屈服 "the only thing you can do is give in")

to take care (of) / to control / to manage / to be in charge of / to look after / to run / to care about / tube / pipe / woodwind / classifier for tube-shaped objects / particle similar to 把 in 管...叫 constructions / writing brush / (coll.) to / towards

exactly; precisely / only; simply; just / (used correlatively with 也) even; even if

only natural / as it should be / certainly / of course / without doubt

norm / standard / specification / regulation / rule / within the rules / to fix rules / to regulate / to specify

the whole world / worldwide; global