to come / (used as a substitute for a more specific verb) / hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來｜回来) / ever since (as in 自古以來｜自古以来) / for the past (amount of time) / (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世｜来世) / (between two verbs) in order to / (after a round number) approximately / (used after 得 to indicate possibility, as in 談得來｜谈得来, or after 不 to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來｜吃不来)

how much? / how many? / (phone number, student ID etc) what number?

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

classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several

water / river / liquid / beverage / additional charges or income / (of clothes) classifier for number of washes

to go forward / to advance / to go in / to enter / to put in / to submit / to take in / to admit / (math.) base of a number system / classifier for sections in a building or residential compound

first / number one / primary

ten thousand / a great number

two / double / pair / both / even (number)

half / semi- / incomplete / (after a number) and a half

number / CL: 堆, 個｜个

numeral / digit / number / figure / amount / digital (electronics etc) / CL: 個｜个

light / easy / gentle / soft / reckless / unimportant / frivolous / small in number / unstressed / neutral / to disparage

large place used for a specific purpose / stage / scene (of a play) / classifier for sporting or recreational activities / classifier for number of exams

number; figure / several; a few

number / numerals / figures / digital / amount / numerical code

a certain number or amount / how many? / how much?

quota / number of places / place (in an institution, a group etc)

amount / sum of money / fixed number

(after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ... / (after a noun) person involved in ... / -er / -ist / (used after a number or 後｜后 or 前 to refer to sth mentioned previously) / (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term) / (old) (used at the end of a command) / (old) this

number / amount / somewhat

weight / number / code / to pile / to stack / classifier for length or distance (yard), happenings etc

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

odd (number)

(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六 "sixth") / (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed / (old) residence of a high official / (literary) but; however / (literary) only; just

to number / numbering / serial number

ocean / sea / CL: 個｜个, 片 / great number of people or things / (dialect) numerous

capital city of a country / big / algebraic term for a large number (old) / artificial mound (old)

telephone / CL: 部 / phone call / CL: 通 / phone number

number of written characters; number of words; word count

ordinal number / serial number / sequence number

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

forehead / horizontal tablet or inscribed board / specified number or amount

characters and numbers (as used in a code) / alphanumeric code / serial number

bill / list / form / single / only / sole / odd number / CL: 個｜个

number of people

extra / surplus / remaining / remainder after division / (following numerical value) or more / in excess of (some number) / residue (math.) / after / I / me

bubble; foam / blister / to soak; to steep; to infuse / to dawdle; to loiter / to pick up (a girl) / to get off with (a sexual partner) / classifier for occurrences of an action / classifier for number of infusions

mark / sign / label / to mark with a symbol, label, lettering etc / to bear (a brand name, registration number etc) / prize / award / bid / target / quota / (old) the topmost branches of a tree / visible symptom / classifier for military units

odd number

number of times / frequency / order number (in a series) / power (math.) / degree of a polynomial (math.)

edition (of a book etc) / edition number

number of days / fate / destiny

as it turns out / by lucky coincidence / (of number, time, size etc) just right

a very long time (etymology: in mathematics, n represents an arbitrarily large number)

first rate / top rank / number one

to determine a location / designated / appointed / specific / fixed (time) / fixed point (geometry) / fixed-point (number)

to own a controlling number of shares in a company

small number / few / minority

to dial a telephone number

(of a large number of things) to form an expanse / to cover an area

binding (loanword) / to bind (e.g. an account to a mobile phone number)

inverse number / reciprocal (math.)

peak / apex / world best / number one / finest (competitors) / top (figures in a certain field)

age limit / fixed number of years

student ID number

population (counted as number of households for census or taxation) / registered residence / residence permit / (in Hong Kong and Macau) bank account

first letter of a word or serial number / first character of a Chinese word / first digit of a number / the top part (esp. a radical) of a Chinese character / the initial of a Chinese syllable

tuba / large size (clothes, print etc) / (polite) (your) name / (coll.) number two / to defecate

lasting for ages / long drawn out / remote in time or space / unhurried / a great number (of events) / preposterous / pensive

hole / opening / cut / gap / gash / my husband or wife / classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc) / precedent

vehicle number (license plate number, taxi number, bus number, train car number)

whole number / integer (math.) / round figure

abbr. of 五筆字型｜五笔字型, five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983

page number

to increase / to grow in number

amount / number

small figure / small amount / the part of a number to the right of the decimal point (or radix point) / fractional part of a number / number between 0 and 1 / decimal fraction

to double / to increase by a certain number of times

angular velocity / number of revolutions per minute

person / number of people / (per) capita / (a person's) head / (Tw) person whose identity is used by sb else (e.g. to create a bogus account)

cardinal number / (math.) radix / base

first under heaven / number one in the country

(newspaper) extra / special number (of a periodical)

number of degrees / reading (on a meter) / strength (alcohol, lenses etc)

the Third (of numbered kings)

composite number (i.e. not prime, has a factorization)

age (number of years old)

prime number

song cycle in Chinese opera / (fig.) a series of tricks / polite remarks / number of (things that are counted in 套, like houses)

even number

many-headed / many-layered (authority) / devolved (as opposed to centralized) / pluralistic / (as classifier) number of animals / long term (finance) / long (investment)

(number of) degrees of freedom (physics and statistics)

first year of the sixty-year cycle (where each year is numbered with one of the 10 heavenly stems 天干 and one of the 12 earthly branches 地支) / the sixty-year cycle

reign title / era name (name for either the entire reign of an emperor or one part of it) / year number (such as 2016 or 甲子)

document identifier code (typically including an abbreviation for the name of the issuing organization, the date and a serial number)

number of votes / poll count

to rank (number 1, or third last etc) / to be among (those who are in a particular group)

lord / master / young gentleman / male prostitute / catamite / mahjong player disqualified by unintentionally taking in the wrong number of dominoes / (old form of address for one's husband) husband

lot number / batch number

electric light socket / burner (component of a kerosene lamp) / light (as a countable item, e.g. number of lights fitted in a house)

generation / period of 30 years / one's whole lifetime / lifelong / age / era / times / the whole world / the First (of numbered European kings)

to continue in a post / (to hold a post) several times in succession / (to win a title) in successive years / to stay at number one / to defend a championship

to multiply / to reproduce / to increase gradually in number or quantity

negative number

conservation (e.g. of energy, momentum or heat in physics) / to remain constant (of a number)

seat number

large number of people

number of items or individuals

tick / check mark (✓) / number for verification (serial number, seat number etc) / (fig.) two things match up