of; ~'s (possessive particle) / (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun) / (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis) / (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的｜跑堂儿的 "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 "new one") / also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs

we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to) / (dialect) I or me / (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you / also pr. [za2 men5]

there still remain(s); there is (or are) still / in addition

Chinese character(s)

taste bud(s)

(bound form) woods; forest / (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / (bound form) a collection (of similar things)

brother(s) and sister(s)

to get one’s courage up / to embolden

road condition(s) (e.g. surface, traffic flow etc)

exhausting / hard / tough / arduous / to work hard / to go to a lot of trouble / hardship(s)

What's up?; Is something the matter? / (coll.) (used in rhetorical questions of the form 關｜关 + {person} + 什麼事｜什么事 "what business is it of {person}'s?; what's it to {person}?")

signature dish / a restaurant’s most famous dish

arms race / armament(s) race

(Japanese) high school girl’s uniform

Bugatti (name) / Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. (French car company)

to put oneself in sb else’s shoes

to cover one's face with one's hand(s); to facepalm

the front piece(s) of a Chinese jacket / lapel

Narnia, children's fantasy world in stories by C.S. Lewis

(coll.) young child; the little one(s) of the family / (old) (humble) I; me; my (used by a commoner when speaking to an official)

nanosecond, ns, 10^-9 s (PRC) / Taiwan equivalent: 奈秒

open system(s)

in the newspaper(s)

father and elder brother(s) / head of the family / patriarch

the straw that broke the camel’s back (idiom) / the final straw

alveolar / consonants z, c, s produced with the tip of the tongue on the alveolar ridge

to wipe one’s ass / (fig.) (coll.) to clean up sb else's mess

lit. seek but fail to get (idiom); fig. exactly what one’s been looking for

Banco Delta Asia S.A.R.L., Macau

lit. to hope one's son becomes a dragon (idiom); fig. to long for one' s child to succeed in life / to have great hopes for one's offspring / to give one's child the best education as a career investment

picosecond, ps, 10^-12 s

words written on one’s deathbed / an artist's final work / swansong

(Tw) a barcode presented at checkout, used to electronically save the receipt 統一發票｜统一发票 to the customer’s cloud account

sigma (Greek letter Σ, σ)

microsecond, µs, 10^-6 s

to enroll without declaring one's major or department (in one's first year(s) of university)

(neologism c. 2021) (slang) to illegally migrate (esp. from China to the U.S. via Latin America through high-risk routes) / a route of such illegal migration

military strength / military force(s)

complement of a set S (math.) / the set of all x not in set S

pro-U.S.

(U.S.) Peace Corps

(Tw) (in a research project) collaborator of the investigator(s)

S.D. Poisson (1781-1840), French mathematician / also pr. [Po1 song1]

circumstance(s) encountered in one's life (favorable or otherwise) / stroke of luck / opportunity

imperial sword (giving bearer arbitrary powers) / in fiction, Chinese version of 007's license to kill

ankylosing spondylitis / Bechterew’s disease

exception(s)

recent year(s)

Standard and Poor's (S&P), company specializing in financial market ratings / S&P financial index

reading or phonetic value of a character / (Japanese linguistics) on-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from its pronunciation in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: An on-reading of a character is distinguished from its kun-reading(s) 訓讀｜训读. For example, 山 has an on-reading "san" and a kun-reading "yama".)

The Chronicles of Narnia, children's stories by C.S. Lewis

to hope / to expect / expectation(s)

Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), American writer known for her novels on Asian cultures, Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize laureate

nanosecond, ns, 10^-9 s (Tw) / PRC equivalent: 納秒｜纳秒

Mao Zedong’s birthday, December 26th

P.S. / postscript

S-shaped / serpentine / coiled like a snake

(neologism c. 2012) (interjection of encouragement) Let’s do this! / Come on, you can do this!

femtosecond, fs, 10^-15 s

double-stamen orchid (Diplandrorchis sinica S.C. Chen), an endangered species

to use the tip of another person’s lit cigarette to light one's own

lit. a hair plucked from (person A) would be thicker than (person B)'s waist (idiom) / fig. A is far richer (or more powerful) than B / (used in a pattern such as A拔根汗毛比B的腰粗)

variant of 尚方劍｜尚方剑 / imperial sword (giving bearer arbitrary powers) / in fiction, Chinese version of 007's license to kill

“Methods of Sima”, also called “Sima Rangju’s Art of War”, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書｜武经七书, written by Sima Rangju 司馬穰苴｜司马穰苴

a reading of a written Chinese word derived from a synonym (typically, a vernacular synonym) (e.g. in Mandarin, 投子 may be pronounced as its synonym 色子, and in Wu dialects, 二 is pronounced as its synonym 兩｜两 "liahn") / to pronounce a word using such a reading / (Japanese linguistics) kun-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from a native Japanese word that matches its meaning rather than from the pronunciation of the character in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: A kun-reading of a character is distinguished from its on-reading(s) 音讀｜音读. For example, 山 has a kun-reading "yama" and an on-reading "san".)

sigma (Greek letter Σ, σ)

alveolar / consonants z, c, s produced with the tip of the tongue on the alveolar ridge