from; through; via / (bound form) to follow / (bound form) to obey / (bound form) to engage in (an activity) / (used before a negative) ever / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) retainer; attendant / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) assistant; auxiliary; subordinate / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor

to be (followed by substantives only) / correct; right; true / (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well / (adverb for emphatic assertion)

front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293年) / former / formerly

to compare / (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun} / ratio / to gesture / (Taiwan pr. [bi4] in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese)

again; once more; re- / further; beyond this point of time / (before an adjective) more / then (after sth, and not until then) / no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也 or 都 for emphasis) / (used to introduce additional information, as in 再則｜再则, 再就是 etc) / (literary) to reappear; to reoccur

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 catch and hold on / to continue / to go on to do sth / to follow / to carry on / then / after that / subsequently / to proceed / to ensue / in turn / in one's turn

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

to follow / from / because of; due to / by; via; through / (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ...

(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 / (bound form) to reach; to attain (as in 一蹴而就) / (pattern: 就 ... 也 ...) even if ... still ... / (pattern: 不 ... 就 ...) if not ... then must be ...

unusual; special / very; especially; particularly / expressly; for a specific purpose / (often followed by 是) in particular

as follows

to pay attention to; to follow sth closely; to follow (on social media) / concern; interest; attention

(pronoun) this; these / (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun) / (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing)

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

consciousness; awareness / (usu. followed by 到) to be aware of; to realize

to finish / (used with 得 or 不 after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 "cannot forget") / (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 無｜无 or 不) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least / variant of 瞭｜了

(literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then / (bound form) standard; norm / (bound form) principle / (literary) to imitate; to follow / classifier for written items

(typically followed by 就) apt to (lose one's temper, catch a cold etc) / at the drop of a hat

along / to follow (a line, tradition etc) / to carry on / to trim (a border with braid, tape etc) / border / edge

to accompany / to follow / to occur together with / concomitant

(bound form) base; foundation / (bound form) radical (chemistry) / (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese)

there is a great deal of ... (typically followed by a bisyllabic word, as in 大有希望) / (literary) bumper harvest; abundance

to obey / to follow / to arrange / to make reasonable / along / favorable

to say what everyone says (idiom) / to conform to what one perceives to be the majority view / to follow the herd

to follow

(usually followed by 於｜于) to hinge on / to be decided by / to depend on

to follow / to comply with / varying according to... / to allow / subsequently

grasp this fundamental point and all the rest will follow (idiom)

hundred million; (fig.) enormous quantity / absolutely; certainly (usually followed by a negative expression)

to follow the crowd / going with the tide

in accordance with / to follow (the rules)

to follow the crowd / going with the tide

to follow sb closely (idiom) / to keep close to

to follow; to abide by; to comply with

(telecommunications) channel / (in Confucian texts) to believe in the principles of wisdom and follow them

to follow sb's tracks / to tail / to shadow / tracking

lit. where water flows, a canal is formed (idiom) / fig. when conditions are right, success will follow naturally

(idiom) to follow one's heart's desires; to do as one pleases

to drift with the waves and go with the flow (idiom); to follow the crowd blindly

model; example (for people to follow); (in reference to a person) role model

to continue / to follow after / to go on with / to succeed / to inherit / then / afterwards

what course to follow / what path to take

lit. to follow the recipe (idiom) / fig. to follow a set pattern

to follow the crowd / to conform

follow-up / (dialect) to remarry

to go along / to follow

to follow up a victory / to pursue retreating enemy

see a worthy, think to imitate (idiom, from Analects); emulate the virtuous / Follow the example of a virtuous and wise teacher.

to follow / to obey / compliance

to follow / to accompany

to follow obediently

to follow the compass and go with the set square (idiom); to follow the rules inflexibly / to act according to convention

to choose the right course and follow it (idiom)

to follow each other on a social media platform (abbr. for 互相關注｜互相关注)

lit. Xiao's 蕭何｜萧何 governance followed by Cao 曹參｜曹参 (idiom) / fig. to strictly adhere to the policies of the predecessor / to follow precedent

(followed by a verb phrase, then – optionally – 不可, or 不行 etc) must

to wallow in the mire with sb (idiom); to follow the bad example of others

lit. to follow one road until dark (idiom) / fig. to stick to one's ways / to cling to one's course

subordinates follow the example of their superiors (idiom)

to inherit / to follow / to adopt

not knowing which course to follow (idiom); at a loss what to do

clear and detailed / definite / details (are as follows:)

obsession (CL:股) / (when followed by 於｜于) to be obsessive (about)

to follow up a victory and press home the attack / to pursue retreating enemy

to follow each other's accounts (on Weibo etc)

one falls, the next follows (idiom); stepping into the breach to replace fallen comrades / advancing wave upon wave

to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition / forming a bridge between earlier and later stages

separated in time (usu. followed by a quantity of time)

lit. one strong beat and one weak beats in a measure of music (two beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. follow a prescribed pattern to the letter / scrupulous attention to detail

without rules, nothing can be done (idiom, from Mencius); one must follow some rules

to tail behind / to tag along / to follow on the heels of

to follow a bad example

(of Chinese pronunciation) a vowel followed by a nasal consonant

if you marry a chicken follow the chicken, if you marry a dog follow the dog (idiom)

to follow up a study / to investigate

to carry on as before / to follow (an old custom etc)

to follow the doctor's advice / as instructed by the physician

not to be taken as an example / not an example to be followed / not to be taken as authoritative

turn away from evil and follow virtue

without rules, how can anything be done (idiom); one must follow some rules

to devote oneself to; to work toward (often followed by 於｜于)

(literary) to follow current trends; to conform to the fashion of the times

(cf Book of Songs) How to fashion an ax handle? You need an ax / fig. to follow a principle / fig. to act as matchmaker

broad classification / (when followed by 為｜为) to roughly divide (into category A, category B, ...)

to track; to trace; to follow up / (HK, Tw) to follow (on social media)

which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier)

lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as one's model (idiom) / fig. to follow the existing pattern without modification

(idiom) in public; in front of everyone; openly (typically preceded by 在 and followed by 之下)

to pull sb close to oneself / (fig.) (typically followed by 距離｜距离) to bridge (the distance between people) (i.e. to build a closer relationship)

(idiom) to slavishly follow old patterns; to stick to outdated conventions

villager / (Tw) (Internet slang) person who likes to follow online discussions and add their opinions

to follow lustful desires

to get sth open by tapping or striking it / (figuratively, when followed by sth like ∼的大門｜∼的大门) to open the door to ~ / to gain access to ~

to feet the feet perfectly / to follow closely / hard on sb's heels

(fig.) to follow (a path that has proved ill-advised)

to follow / to continue

to follow through; to carry through to the end

to follow sb / to tail / to shadow

to follow your orders / to do as you bid