| | 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 | HSK 1 |
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| | always / ever / often / frequently / common / general / constant | HSK 1 |
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| | 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) | HSK 1 |
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| | once / already / former / previously / ever / (past tense marker used before verb or clause) | HSK 3 |
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| | since (a time) / ever since | HSK 3 |
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| | once / already / ever (in the past) / former / previously / (past tense marker used before verb or clause) | HSK 4 |
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| | to taste; to try (food) / to experience / (literary) ever; once | HSK 5 |
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| | hasn't yet; hasn't ever | HSK 5 |
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| | (not) ever again; (not) any longer | HSK 5 |
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| | raw silk / white / plain, unadorned / vegetarian (food) / essence / nature / element / constituent / usually / always / ever | HSK 7-9 |
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| | increasingly / more and more / ever more / all the more | HSK 7-9 |
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| | ever more critical / problems get more and more intense | HSK 7-9 |
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| | if revenge breeds revenge, will there ever be an end to it? (Buddhist saying) | |
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| | enduring while the world lasts (idiom, from Laozi); eternal / for ever and ever (of friendship, hate etc) / also written 天長地久｜天长地久 | |
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| | Ever Victorious Army (1860-1864), Qing dynasty army equipped and trained jointly with Europeans and used esp. against the Taiping rebels | |
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| | as before / as ever | |
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| | to emerge victorious in every battle / to be ever-victorious | |
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| | afraid of the head, terrified of the tail (idiom); ever fearful and nervous / afraid of the slightest thing | |
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| | not ever / not necessarily | |
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| | did I ever ...? (or "did he ever ...?" etc) | |
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| | lit. to hang upside down / fig. topsy-turvy and inequitable, e.g. manufacturing and trading costs exceed the sale price (of some goods) / to borrow more than one can ever repay | |
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| | separated in life and death / to part for ever | |
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| | unprecedented / for the first time / never before / first ever | |
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| | lit. to clasp the Buddha's feet (without ever having burned incense) (idiom); fig. to profess devotion only when in trouble / panic measures in place of timely preparation | |
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| | beauty unmatched in her generation (idiom); woman of peerless elegance / prettiest girl ever | |
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| | to triumph in every battle and win every fight (idiom); all-conquering / ever victorious / nothing they can't do | |
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| | from / (ever) since | |
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| | (of one's skills, appearance etc) not to have deteriorated a bit / to be as (good, vigorous etc) as ever | |
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| | (idiom) as one climbs higher on the path of righteousness, one faces ever greater challenges from evil; no sooner does one overcome one obstacle than another arises | |
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| | to triumph in every battle and win every fight (idiom); all-conquering / ever victorious / nothing they can't do | |
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| | increasingly / more and more / ever more / all the more | |
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| | lit. a good sword always remains sharp (idiom) / fig. (of one's skills etc) to be as good as ever / the old man still has it | |
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| | since ancient times; it has ever been the case that | |
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| | the Classic of Tea, first monograph ever on tea and its culture, written by 陸羽｜陆羽 between 760-780 | |
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| | ever-changing | |
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| | lit. long in existence but ever new (idiom) / fig. timeless; unfading | |
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| | for ever and ever | |
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| | die-hard otaku (sb who hardly ever emerges from their home, where they play games, watch movies etc) | |
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| | (idiom) to act like the scholar who wrote at length about buying a donkey without even mentioning the word "donkey"; to write at length without ever getting to the point | |
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| | pay every ten days, give tribute every month (idiom); incessant and ever more complicated demands | |
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| | fighting and winning a series of battles (idiom); ever victorious | |
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| | etched in one's bones and heart (idiom); ever-present memory (esp. resentment) | |
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| | constantly changing, ever-varying (idiom) | |
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| | to triumph in every battle and win every fight (idiom); all-conquering / ever victorious / nothing they can't do | |
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| | hasn't (or haven't); hasn't ever | |
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| | etched in one's bones and heart (idiom); ever-present memory (esp. resentment) | |
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