(specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nei4]) / (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations) / then (in that case)

water / (after a name) ... River / to swim (used mostly in 會水｜会水 and 水性) / (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy / (bound form) additional cost; extra income / classifier for washings of a garment

matter / thing / item / work / affair / CL: 件, 樁｜桩, 回

what? / something; anything

to make; to produce / to write; to compose / to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc) / (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc) / (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for / to assume (an air or manner)

thing / stuff / person / CL: 個｜个, 件

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

thing; object

item / component / classifier for events, things, clothes etc

to hold; to grasp / to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate / handlebar / classifier: handful, bundle, bunch / classifier for things with handles / (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb})

name (of a person or thing) / CL: 個｜个

everything / every / all

(bound form) commander-in-chief / (bound form) to lead; to command / handsome; graceful; dashing; elegant / (coll.) cool!; sweet! / (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)

right; correct / towards; at; for / concerning; regarding / to treat (sb a certain way) / to face / (bound form) opposite; facing; matching / to match together; to adjust / to fit; to suit / to answer; to reply / to add; to pour in (a fluid) / to check; to compare / classifier: couple; pair

barely / only / merely / only (this and nothing more)

merely; only; just; nothing but / simply / but; however

teaching; instruction / CL: 次

how? / how about? / how was it? / how are things?

treasured object / treasure / darling / baby / cowry / good-for-nothing or queer character

to arrange in order; to line up / to exclude; to eliminate; to repel; to expel; to discharge / (literary) to push aside; to force open / to rehearse / row; line / platoon / (bound form) steak; chop / (bound form) raft / classifier for rows or lines (of people or things)

affair; matter; thing; business / CL: 件, 樁｜桩

gate / door / CL: 扇 / gateway / doorway / CL: 個｜个 / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

(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 ...

name (of a thing) / name (of an organization)

interest (desire to know about sth) / interest (thing in which one is interested); hobby

convenient; suitable / to facilitate; to make things easy / having money to spare / (euphemism) to relieve oneself

(of a contagious disease etc) to spread; to propagate / (of a style of clothing, song etc) popular; fashionable

plaything / toy

to have spare time / free from work / it's not important / it's nothing / never mind

square / power or involution (math.) / upright / honest / fair and square / direction / side / party (to a contract, dispute etc) / place / method / prescription (medicine) / just when / only or just / classifier for square things / abbr. for square or cubic meter

only; merely; nothing but; no more than / it's just that ...

good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed") / charity / happy occasion / Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead

pleasantly cool (weather etc) / to cool oneself; to cool off / (Tw) (slang) (of clothing) scanty; revealing / (coll.) to stay out of it; to butt out

matching / fitting in with / compatible with / to correspond / to fit / to conform to / rapport / to coordinate with / to act in concert with / to cooperate / to become man and wife / to combine parts of machine

strip / item / article / clause (of law or treaty) / classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)

learning; knowledge; scholarship / a body of specialized knowledge (CL:門｜门); (fig.) any activity that demands expertise, skill or experience (e.g. gathering forensic evidence, selecting clothing, managing relationships)

to roll up / (fig.) to sweep up; to engulf; to drag into (a situation) / (slang) to compete to an unhealthy degree; hypercompetitive / a roll / classifier for small rolled-up things (wad of paper money, movie reel etc)

road; path (CL:條｜条,股) / (bound form) way; reason; principle / (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization / (Daoism) the Way; the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division)

not up to much / very indifferent / nothing great about it / nothing good to be said about it

egg / CL: 個｜个, 打 / oval-shaped thing

to burn / to cook / to stew / to bake / to roast / to heat / to boil (tea, water etc) / fever / to run a temperature / (coll.) to let things go to one's head

unexpectedly / to one's surprise / in spite of everything / in that crazy way / actually / to go as far as to

to see (the same thing) over and over again / to see, to one's surprise, (sth happen suddenly)

to string together / to skewer / to connect wrongly / to gang up / to rove / string / bunch / skewer / classifier for things that are strung together, or in a bunch, or in a row: string of, bunch of, series of / to make a swift or abrupt linear movement (like a bead on an abacus) / to move across

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

only have ...; there is only ... / (used in combination with 才) it is only if ... (that one can ...) (as in 只有通過治療才能痊愈｜只有通过治疗才能痊愈 "the only way to cure it is with therapy") / it is only (someone) who ... (as in 只有男性才有此需要 "only men would have such a requirement") / (used to express lack of alternatives) can only; have no choice but to (as in 只有屈服 "the only thing you can do is give in")

washing machine; washer / CL: 臺｜台

to feel embarrassed or awkward / to make things difficult (for someone) / to find things difficult (to do or manage)

dress / clothing / costume / clothes / CL: 身

(bound form) matching; comparable to / (bound form) alone; single; one of a pair / classifier for horses, mules etc (Taiwan pr. [pi1]) / classifier for cloth: bolt / horsepower

nerve / mental state / (coll.) unhinged / nutjob

silk / thread-like thing; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips / classifier: a trace (of smoke etc), a tiny bit etc

way of looking at a thing / view / opinion / CL: 個｜个

teaching material / CL: 本

first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲 system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75°

to spout; to spurt; to spray; to puff / (slang) to criticize scathingly (esp. online)

touching / moving

light / gentle / relaxed / effortless / uncomplicated / to relax / to take things less seriously

to draw on (others' experience) / to learn from (how others do things) / lesson to be learned (by observing others)

with everything needed available

vocabulary / list of words (e.g. for language teaching purposes) / word

adornment / to adorn / dress / clothing / costume (of an actor in a play) / to play a role / to pretend / to install / to fix / to wrap (sth in a bag) / to load / to pack

(coll.) can't do anything about it / (coll.) there's no way that ...; it's simply not credible that ... / (coll.) couldn't be (better) (i.e. simply wonderful)

to use anywhere, anytime (card, ticket etc) / to be used by everyone (language, textbook etc) / (of two or more things) interchangeable

air force / (slang) to fail to catch anything (on a fishing trip); to get skunked

(idiom) ordinary; unremarkable; nothing special

unrelated / having nothing to do (with sth else)

not felt or perceived; to feel nothing about; indifferent; unimpressed

to move (to pity) / arousing (sympathy) / touching

it doesn't matter; it's nothing; never mind / think nothing of it; it's my pleasure; you're welcome

(idiom) a false alarm; a scare that turns out to be nothing

solely engrossed in one thing / just (one thing, no need to worry about the rest) / simply / by all means / please feel free / do not hesitate (to ask for sth)

lit. the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (proverb) / fig. something unpleasant or embarrassing cannot be avoided forever; sooner or later one must face it

(coll.) heartwarming; touching; comforting and emotionally uplifting

to do everything one can / to spare no effort / to strive

gaze / insight / foresight / vision / way of looking at things

to expound Buddhist teachings

to promise / to undertake to do something / commitment

summer clothing; summer clothes

to read / to study (a subject) / to attend (a school) / to read aloud / to give (sb) a tongue-lashing (CL:頓｜顿) / to miss (sb) / idea / remembrance / twenty (banker's anti-fraud numeral corresponding to 廿)

outer clothing / semblance / appearance

Uniqlo, Japanese clothing brand

tray; plate; dish / (finance) (bound form) market prices / (computing) (bound form) disk / to coil (a rope, pigtail etc) / to check; to examine; to investigate / to transfer; to sell (property) / to shift; to move (sth big and heavy) / classifier for things resembling a plate or dish / classifier for coils / classifier for games or matches (chess, table tennis etc)

back of neck / item / thing / term (in a mathematical formula) / sum (of money) / classifier for principles, items, clauses, tasks, research projects etc

winter clothing; winter clothes

(idiom) deeply touching

secondary / auxiliary / deputy / assistant / vice- / abbr. for 副詞｜副词 adverb / classifier for pairs, sets of things & facial expressions

autumn clothing; autumn clothes

at dawn / at first light / first thing in the morning

useless person; good-for-nothing

(idiom) deeply touching

laundry detergent / washing powder

to pay / to hand over to / classifier for pairs or sets of things

antique; old relic / (fig.) old-fashioned person or thing; old fogey

gun / firearm / rifle / spear / thing with shape or function similar to a gun / CL: 支, 把, 桿｜杆, 條｜条, 枝 / to substitute for another person in a test / to knock / classifier for rifle shots

to consult with / to talk things over / agreement

not having anything at all (idiom); utterly lacking / without two sticks to rub together

to realize; to be aware of; to feel that; to be conscious of (sth relating to oneself) / responsible; predisposed to do the right thing; considerate of others

to do something at one go / to flow smoothly

spring clothing; spring clothes