| | (try to) overcome (hardships etc) / to conquer / to put up with / to endure | HSK 3 |
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| | to see; to look at / to read / to watch / to visit; to call on / to consider; to regard as / to look after / to treat (a patient or illness) / to depend on / to feel (that) / (after a verb) to give it a try / to watch out for | HSK 1 |
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| | to make an effort; to try hard; to strive / hard-working; conscientious | HSK 2 |
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| | good person / healthy person / person who tries not to offend anyone, even at the expense of principle | HSK 2 |
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| | upward / up / to advance / to try to improve oneself / to make progress | HSK 5 |
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| | to attempt / to try | HSK 5 |
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| | to try to find / to look for / to call on sb / to find / to seek / to return / to give change | HSK 1 |
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| | to test / to try / experiment / examination / test | HSK 1 |
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| | to advise / to urge / to try to persuade / to exhort / to console / to soothe | HSK 5 |
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| | to overtake; to catch up with / to hurry; to rush / to try to catch (the bus etc) / to drive (cattle etc) forward; to drive (sb) away / to avail oneself of (an opportunity) / until; by (a certain time) | HSK 3 |
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| | to taste; to try (food) / to experience / (literary) ever; once | HSK 5 |
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| | (after a verb) a bit; a little (indicating brief duration, or softening the tone, or suggesting giving sth a try) / all at once; suddenly | |
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| | to try sth out / to be on probation | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to attempt / to try / attempt / CL: 種|种 | HSK 6 |
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| | lame (unimpressive) / a huge letdown / not to try at all | |
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| | to think up every possible method (idiom); to devise ways and means / to try this, that and the other | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. to net sparrows and dig out rats (idiom) / fig. to try every possible means of obtaining food (in times of starvation) | |
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| | to put effort into sth / to try really hard | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to try by all available methods | |
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| | a torment / a trial / tribulation / a cross (to bear) / well-tried | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) to hit the jackpot with a single shot; to achieve success at one's first try | |
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| | to try; to attempt / CL: 次 | HSK 5 |
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| | to pull strongly against a crazy tide (idiom); fig. to try hard to save a desperate crisis | |
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| | a trial / to try sb | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to show off / to try to be brave | HSK 7-9 |
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| | well-tried / time-tested | |
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| | refrain from hurting others, yet guard against those trying to hurt you (proverb) | |
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| | to examine / to investigate / carefully / to try (in court) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to analyze / to try to figure out / to try to fathom | HSK 7-9 |
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| | friendly one-upmanship / to try to emulate | |
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| | making an all-out effort (idiom); to try one's heart out / to do one's utmost | |
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| | dripping water penetrates the stone (idiom); constant perseverance yields success / You can achieve your aim if you try hard without giving up. / Persistent effort overcomes any difficulty. | |
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| | (coll.) to try to improve one's social standing by marrying or affiliating with people of higher status | |
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| | to mount a psychological attack / to try to demoralize / to try to win over / to try to persuade / (TCM) to fall into a coma or stupor due to an excess of emotion | |
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| | Heaven will not disappoint the person who tries (idiom). If you try hard, you're bound to succeed eventually. | |
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| | to look for a bargain / to seek advantage / to try to gain at expense of others | |
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| | to try to persuade sb to give up (their job, plans etc) | |
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| | to explain / to justify / to defend (a point of view etc) / to provide an explanation / to try to defend oneself | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (idiom) stumbling and crawling; scrambling; frantically trying to escape | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to try out a restaurant and film a video to share on the Internet | |
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| | to have a try | |
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| | to taste (fresh food or a delicacy) / (fig.) to try sth new | |
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| | polite phrase; conventional greetings / cliché / to try to worm facts out of sb | |
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| | (coll.) to try to | |
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| | lit. to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it (idiom) / fig. to try to gain an advantage only to end up worse off / to go for wool and come back shorn | |
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| | to try / to make an attempt / to think of a way (to accomplish sth) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to succeed or die trying (idiom) | |
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| | to play yabao (a gambling game) / (fig.) to gamble on / to take one's chance / to try one's luck | |
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| | to try one's best to do sth (idiom) | |
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| | to be trying to get pregnant | |
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| | to try to find out; to trace; to track down | |
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| | to try to form friendly ties with sb for one's own benefit / to suck up to sb | |
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| | to sound out / to probe / to feel out / to try out | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to overreach oneself / to try to be clever and end up with egg on one's face | |
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| | to try to draw a tiger but end up with a likeness of a dog (idiom) / to try to do sth overambitious and end up botching it | |
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| | to work hard / to try to make a living | |
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| | lit. mythical bird Jingwei tries to fill the ocean with stones (idiom); futile ambition / task of Sisyphus / determination in the face of impossible odds | |
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| | lit. to try to make an ox drink by forcing its head down to the water (idiom) / fig. to try to impose one's will on sb | |
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| | to try in vain / futile attempt | |
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| | dripping water penetrates the stone (idiom); constant perseverance yields success / You can achieve your aim if you try hard without giving up. / Persistent effort overcomes any difficulty. | |
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| | to try wearing clothes / fitting trial | |
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| | lit. looking for a fine horse using only a picture (idiom) / fig. to do things along rigid, conventional lines / to try and find sth with the help of a clue | |
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| | to try to predict the outcome of an event (for betting on sports results or for fun etc) | |
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| | to try everything to avoid; to guard against | |
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| | to have a try / to try one's hand / initial foray | |
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| | lit. if you have to use force to break a melon off the vine, it won't taste sweet (because it's only when the melon is ripe that it can be removed with just a slight twist) (idiom) / fig. if sth is not meant to be, it's no use trying to force it to happen | |
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| | preliminary exam / qualifying exam / first try / preliminary testing | |
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| | to do one's work / to work on sb / to try to persuade sb | |
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| | lit. to reach the tip and try (idiom); to have a go when at one's peak | |
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| | to (try to) find the time to | |
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| | to try out / to test | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to rush (to do sth urgent) / to try to be the first / to forestall | |
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| | dripping water penetrates the stone (idiom); constant perseverance yields success / You can achieve your aim if you try hard without giving up. / Persistent effort overcomes any difficulty. | |
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| | lit. not aiming to achieve the best possible result, but rather trying to avoid making mistakes (idiom) / fig. to take a risk-averse approach | |
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| | to try harder / to redouble one's efforts | |
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| | (coll.) to cultivate good relations with sb / to try to gain favor with sb | |
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| | to try to draw a tiger but end up with a likeness of a dog (idiom) / to try to do sth overambitious and end up botching it | |
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| | to give it a try | |
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| | to retry / to try again | |
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| | inquest / trial / interrogation / to try / to interrogate | |
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| | trying to hide it makes it more conspicuous (idiom); A cover up only makes matters worse. | |
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| | lit. you hoodwink me and I cheat you (idiom) / fig. each tries to outwit the other / deceit and treachery | |
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| | lit. an ant trying to shake a tree (idiom) / fig. to overrate oneself; to overestimate one's capabilities | |
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| | to crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock (to a cliff edge, to drop on one's enemy) (idiom) / hoisted by one's own petard | |
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| | to try one's utmost / to strive | |
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| | to try one's luck / to leave sth to chance | |
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| | to be eager to give sth a try (idiom) | |
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| | to examine; to investigate; to try to determine | |
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| | sb who tries to be on good terms with everyone | |
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| | to butter sb up / to try to impress sb | |
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| | lit. to turn to any doctor one can find when critically ill (idiom); fig. to try anyone or anything in a crisis | |
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| | to try hard to catch up | |
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| | sb who tries to be on good terms with everyone | |
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| | Cai E (1882–1916), military leader who was a key figure in the establishment the National Protection Army 護國軍|护国军, which in 1916 fought the forces of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯, who had tried to reestablish the monarchy with himself as emperor | |
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| | to drive in reverse / fig. to take a backward step / retrogressive / trying to turn the clock back | |
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| | to try out (a game, toy etc) | |
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| | a thousand tries leads to one success (idiom, humble expr.); Even without any notable ability on my part, I may still get it right sometimes by good luck. | |
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| | to try to please | |
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| | to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong / to try to turn back history / a perverse way of doing things | |
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| | (law) to try (a criminal case) and reach a conclusion | |
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