to walk / to go / to run / to move (of vehicle) / to visit / to leave / to go away / to die (euph.) / from / through / away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走) / to change (shape, form, meaning)

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

a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘｜打伞 "to hold an umbrella", 打電話｜打电话 "to make a phone call", 打針｜打针 "to get an injection", 打手套 "to knit gloves", 打氣｜打气 "to inflate") / to hit; to strike / to fight / (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後｜打那以后 "since then")

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

sense / meaning / significance / importance / CL: 個｜个

article / essay / literary works / writings / hidden meaning / CL: 篇, 段, 頁｜页

meaning (implicit in a phrase) / implied meaning / hidden meaning / hint / connotation

to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning) / revolution / revolutionary / to revolt (against sb or sth) / to revolutionize (sth) / (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern 革noun的命) / CL: 次

moral (of a story) / lesson to be learned / implication / message / import / metaphorical meaning

to contain / to hold / (of a person or style etc) reserved / restrained / (of words, writings) full of hidden meaning / implicit / veiled (criticism)

content / meaning / connotation / implication

combined ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / Chinese character that combines the meanings of existing elements / also known as joint ideogram or associative compound / to comprehend without being told explicitly / to cotton on / knowing (smile, glance etc)

fears of trouble in the rear (idiom); family worries (obstructing freedom of action) / worries about the future consequences / often in negative expressions, meaning "no worries about anything"

bright / opposite: dark 暗 / (of meaning) clear / to understand / next / public or open / wise / generic term for a sacrifice to the gods

lucky / giga- (meaning billion or 10^9)

idea / meaning / thought / to think / wish / desire / intention / to expect / to anticipate

(coll.) piece of light artillery such as a mortar / (fig.) person who speaks boldly and frankly / hot hatch (car) / (also used figuratively with various meanings in other contexts)

(skincare regimen) Vitamin C in the morning, Vitamin A in the evening (original meaning) / (jocular) coffee in the morning, alcohol in the evening

tathagata (Buddha's name for himself, having many layers of meaning - Sanskrit: thus gone, having been Brahman, gone to the absolute etc)

the meaning of sth / an explanation of the meaning of words or phrases / definition / an interpretation (of doctrine) / religious doctrine

bound form having the same meaning as the free word 答, used in 答應｜答应, 答理 etc

(old) third person singular pronoun ("he" or "she") / second person singular pronoun ("you") / (May 4th period) third person singular feminine pronoun ("she") / (Classical Chinese) introductory particle with no specific meaning / (preceding a noun) that

meaning of a word

lost / missing / to lose (sb in one's charge) / to get lost / to wander away / to lose (flavor, freshness, shape, hair, one's good looks etc) / to lose meaning (in translation)

original meaning / original intention

(linguistics) transferred meaning / (computing) to escape

meaning of a character

meaning of a title / implication / theme

to eat / (extended meaning) to endure / putrid smell / vegetables / roots (inextricably attached to the plant)

meaning of words / semantic

palm (of one's hand) / control (extended meaning from having something in the palm of one's hand)

original meaning / literal sense

to extend (the meaning of a word, an analogy etc) / derivation

water and soil / surface water / natural environment (extended meaning) / climate

(literary) what is? / what is the meaning of?

the real meaning / the true essence

meaning

between the words and the lines (idiom); implied meaning / connotations

outside appearance and inner reality differ (idiom); not what it seems / saying one thing but meaning sth different

meaning / content of speech or writing / semantic

inner meaning / implication / connotation

to make use of / to use sth as pretext / under false pretenses / under the guise of / masquerading as / lenient / tolerant / loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / character acquiring meanings by phonetic association / also called phonetic loan

anapodoton (a saying in which the second part, uttered after a pause or totally left out, is the intended meaning of the allegory presented in the first part)

meaning behind the words / what sb really means to say / one's intentions as revealed in one's words / tone of speech

real intention / true meaning / correct interpretation

profound (meaning, implications etc)

meaning of word / sense

to express meaning / ideographic

(Tw) meaning; significance; import / CL: 層｜层

one's words carry an implicit meaning

to say sth without meaning it (idiom); to speak tongue in cheek / saying one thing but meaning sth different

words do not convey the meaning / poorly expressed / senseless / inarticulate

(idiom) to display one's facility with words / to show off one's literary skills / (original meaning) to pervert the law by playing with legal phraseology (墨 was a reference to 繩墨｜绳墨)

earnest and well-meaning advice (idiom); to persuade patiently

interpreting words / to explain the meaning of words in classic texts / to decipher an old script

subtle words with profound meaning (idiom)

sincere / real meaning

to bear / to enjoy (usually in negative combination, meaning unable to enjoy)

Marquis (highest Han dynasty ducal title meaning lord of 10,000 households) / high nobles

overtone (music) / (fig.) connotation / implied meaning

to make a pun / to have a double meaning / double entendre

one's words carry an implicit meaning

lit. view a text and interpret (idiom); to interpret word by word without understanding the meaning / a far-fetched interpretation

some deeper meaning in this / more to it than meets the eye / there's sth behind all this

(the 3rd part of a 3-part construction: 非 + (noun) + 莫屬｜莫属, meaning "to be none other than (noun); would have to be (noun)") (this construction comes after a description of a person or thing that has a certain attribute)

simple words with a profound meaning (idiom)

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".)

lit. remarkable work appreciated by all (idiom); universally praised (original meaning) / incomprehensible nonsense / preposterous bullshit

brethren on the other side of the border (used in the context of China-Myanmar friendship) (loanword from Burmese "paukphaw", meaning "close kin")

heart and mouth at variance (idiom); keeping one's real intentions to oneself / saying one thing but meaning sth different

to understand; to comprehend; to grasp the meaning

(meaning uncertain)

fish (meaning variable: mackerel, anchovy, fresh-water fish)

to contain / to hold / content / (of a poem etc) full of implicit meaning

meaning uncertain, related to 戾, to violate

(archaic) (meaning unclear) / (final particle)

meaning / implication / flavor / overtone / to mean / to imply / (Tw) to get a sense of

to mean / meaning

to open an aperture / (extended meaning) to cut a way through / to open up a road

"Shiming", late Han dictionary, containing 1502 entries, using puns on the pronunciation of headwords to explain their meaning

implied meaning

transfer character (one of the Six Methods 六書｜六书 of forming Chinese characters) / character with meanings influenced by other words / sometimes called mutually explanatory character

(precise meaning unknown, relates to iron) / variant of 協｜协

to translate a term into Chinese using a combination of characters or words that suggests its meaning (as opposed to transliteration 音譯｜音译) (e.g. 超文本, 火車｜火车)

original meaning

unambiguous / having only one meaning

deep and profound meaning

content / meaning / connotation / implication / same as 涵義｜涵义

to make sense / to have meaning / to have significance / meaningful / significant / worthwhile / important / interesting

nationalism / national self-determination / principle of nationalism, the first of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山｜孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義｜三民主义 (at the time, meaning parity between China and the great powers) / racism

not to have any meaning / meaningless

to intentionally reinterpret a spoken expression as if one had misheard it, for the sake of humor (often, it is a phrase in a foreign language twisted into a similar-sounding phrase in one's native language with a completely different meaning) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 空耳 "soramimi")

to make sense of / to grasp the meaning of / to figure out

without meaning / nonsense / immoral / faithless

figurative meaning (of a word)

lit. Ying writes a letter and Yan reads it / fig. to misinterpret the original meaning / to pile up errors / refers to the letter from capital 郢 of 楚 in which the inadvertent words "hold up the candle" are mistaken by the minister of 燕 as "promote the wise"

extended meaning (of an expression) / derived sense

discourse / group of sentences with clear meaning / narrative

character with two or more readings / character where different readings convey different meanings (Tw)

sound and meaning