medicine / drug / substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting) / CL: 種｜种, 服, 味 / to poison

to change or replace / to experience / one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided / watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard)

position / location / place / seat / classifier for people (honorific) / classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes) / (physics) potential

seat / base / stand / (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address, e.g. 师座 / CL: 個｜个 / classifier for buildings, mountains and similar immovable objects

festival / holiday / node / joint / section / segment / part / to economize / to save / to abridge / moral integrity / classifier for segments, e.g. lessons, train wagons, biblical verses / CL: 個｜个

to be defeated / to lose / to fail (e.g. experiments) / failure / defeat / CL: 次

word (general term including monosyllables through to short phrases) / term (e.g. technical term) / expression

to fill a job vacancy / to fill in a blank (e.g. on questionnaire or exam paper)

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

to resist / to obstruct / to hinder / to keep off / to block (a blow) / to get in the way of / cover / gear (e.g. in a car's transmission)

system (e.g. political, adminstrative etc) / institution / CL: 個｜个

a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties) / age / era / period / CL: 個｜个

root / basis / classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings / CL: 條｜条 / radical (chemistry)

interjection or grunt of agreement or recognition (e.g. yes, it's me!) / to sigh

straightforward / clear-cut / blunt (e.g. statement) / you might as well / simply

rule (e.g. of science) / law of behavior / regular pattern / rhythm / discipline

year (e.g. school year, fiscal year) / annual

prefecture / (old) province / (old) administrative division / state (e.g. of US) / oblast (Russia) / canton (Switzerland)

storm / violent commotion / fig. crisis (e.g. revolution, uprising, financial crisis etc)

to weave / to knit / to plait / to braid / (fig.) to create (sth abstract, e.g. a dream, a lie etc)

expansion / dilation / to expand (e.g. one's power or influence) / to broaden

to inlay / to embed / to set (e.g. a jewel in a ring) / tiling / tesselation

paper money / a bill (e.g. 100 yuan) / CL: 張｜张, 紮｜扎

to drift about / to wander / to roam / nomadic / homeless / unsettled (e.g. population) / vagrant

to overlap / to superimpose / to telescope / to run together / to duplicate / one over another / superposition / an overlap / redundancy / reduplication (in Chinese grammar, e.g. 散散步 to have a stroll)

slow and patient / chronic (disease) / slow to take effect (e.g. a slow poison)

to toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly) / to repeat sth over and over again / to torment sb / to play crazy / to squander (time, money)

sharp (e.g. knife blade) / incisive / to the point

hammer / to hammer into shape / weight (e.g. of a steelyard or balance) / to strike with a hammer

host / official host (e.g. venue for games or a conference)

to spur on / to urge on / to encourage sb (e.g. to make progress)

teacher-training / pedagogical / normal (school, e.g. Beijing Normal University)

to research / to check / to investigate / to examine / to refer to / to look up (e.g. a word in a dictionary)

(prefix indicating ordinal number, e.g. first, number two etc) / order / (old) rank in the imperial examinations / mansion / (literary) but / just

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

(after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state / indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站) / indicating completion / (after a perception verb, e.g. 看) expressing preliminary judgment / also pr. [qi3 lai5]

special-purpose phone line or communications link / hotline / special rail line (e.g. between airport and city) / CL: 條｜条

to recount (e.g. results of election) / to re-evaluate

name / noun (part of speech) / place (e.g. among winners) / famous / classifier for people

real estate / the property market (e.g. houses)

to stick / to paste / to post (e.g. on a blog) / to keep close to / to fit snugly / to subsidize / allowance (e.g. money for food or housing) / sticker / classifier for sticking plaster: strip

public / collectively owned / common / international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar) / make public / fair / just / Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 / honorable (gentlemen) / father-in-law / male (animal)

to suspend / time-out (e.g. in sports) / stoppage / pause (media player)

(neologism, c. 2015) (coll.) most prominent position (e.g. in a group photo of entertainers) (loanword from "carry" or "center" or "core")

G-spot

"Times" (newspaper, e.g. New York Times)

a loan / CL: 筆｜笔 / to provide a loan (e.g. bank) / to raise a loan (from e.g. a bank)

strong / powerful / better / slightly more than / vigorous / violent / best in their category, e.g. see 百強｜百强

sales counter dedicated to a certain kind of product (e.g. alcohol)

set meal / product or service package (e.g. for a cell phone subscription)

to lock (a door) / to close with a latch / to lock into place / a lock / a latch / to lock a computer file (to prevent it being overwritten) / to lock (denying access to a computer system or device or files, e.g. by password-protection) / to focus attention on / to target

reception (of transmitted signal) / to receive / to accept / to admit / to take over (e.g. a factory) / to expropriate

Republic of China (1912-1949) / used in Taiwan as the name of the calendar era (e.g. 民國六十年｜民国六十年 is 1971, the 60th year after 1911)

window / opening providing restricted access (e.g. customer service window) / computer operating system window / fig. medium / intermediary / showpiece / testing ground

to kick / to play (e.g. soccer) / (slang) butch (in a lesbian relationship)

to pluck (a string) / to play (a string instrument) / to spring or leap / to shoot (e.g. with a catapult) / (of cotton) to fluff or tease / to flick / to flip / to accuse / to impeach / elastic (of materials)

care / treatment (e.g. nursing care) / to look after

to increase (e.g. one's effort)

to pair up / to match up / to form a pair (e.g. to marry) / to mate / matched pair

frame (e.g. door frame) / casing / fig. framework / template / to circle (i.e. draw a circle around sth) / to frame / to restrict / Taiwan pr. [kuang1]

tear or rupture / to have a tear (e.g. in one's clothes) / without restraint (e.g. of swearing)

mask / visor / facepiece (e.g. diving suit, gas mask)

qualities that delight children (e.g. bold colors in a picture, anthropomorphized characters in a TV show, the physical challenge of playground equipment)

live (e.g. broadcast or recording) / what is actually happening / scene / the real situation

race / nationality / ethnicity / clan / by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族)

thirty-eighth year H2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1961 or 2021 / cf 辛丑條約｜辛丑条约, Protocol of Beijing of 1901 ending the 8-nation intervention after the Boxer uprising

celestial body (e.g. planet, satellite etc) / heavenly body

itinerary / route / political line (e.g. right revisionist road) / CL: 條｜条

only / alone / -ism (in Chinese, a prefix, often combined with a suffix such as 主義｜主义 or 論｜论, e.g. 唯理論｜唯理论, rationalism)

to scale (a height) / to ascend / to mount / to publish or record / to enter (e.g. in a register) / to press down with the foot / to step or tread on / to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect) / to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old)

ruthless / strong (e.g. of wine) / (loanword) cool / hip

prop / support (for weight) / rest (e.g. arm rest) / thanks to / to hold in one's hand / to support in one's palm / to give / to base / to commit / to set / torr (unit of pressure)

page of a publication (e.g. newspaper or website) / printing space (reserved for some content) / page layout

competition (e.g. sporting)

competition of skill (e.g. sports) / athletics tournament

to rise abruptly (to a towering position) / to tower over / to spring up / to emerge suddenly / the emergence (e.g. of a power)

to control / to restrict / (PRC law) non-custodial sentence with specified restrictions on one's activities for up to 3 years (e.g. not to participate in demonstrations)

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

initial price (e.g. for the first kilometer) / prices starting from

to draw (e.g. a bow) / to pull / to stretch sth / to extend / to lengthen / to involve or implicate in / to attract / to lead / to guide / to leave / to provide evidence or justification for / old unit of distance equal to 10 丈, one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters

nighttime / evening or night (e.g. classes)

rising trend / upward momentum (e.g. in prices)

to bid farewell / tricks of the trade / pithy mnemonic formula (e.g. Mao Zedong's 16-character mantra 十六字訣｜十六字诀 on guerrilla warfare)

to go / to visit (e.g. another country) / to attend (a banquet etc)

to open to traffic (e.g. new bridge, rail line etc) / (of a locality) to have a transportation service / (Tw) to commute

number of days of sth taking place (e.g. days of heavy pollution) / days / occasions

administrative unit (e.g. province 省, prefecture 地區｜地区 or county 縣｜县)

to sell as agent / to sell on commission (e.g. insurance policies) / proxy sale (of stocks)

to work in a profession (e.g. doctor, lawyer) / practitioner / professional

road condition(s) (e.g. surface, traffic flow etc)

little girl who is older than another young child (e.g. her playmate) / (neologism c. 2017) (slang) young lady (amiable form of address for a young woman of about one's own age or a little older)

white paper (e.g. containing proposals for new legislation) / white book

model or template character / written slogan or phrase / mention (e.g. "air mail" 航空 on a letter, "first draft" 初稿 on a document etc)

to deepen (e.g. a ditch) / to extract / to manage / ladle (old)

method of counting (e.g. decimal or Roman numbers)

hired (for employment) / invited (e.g. to lecture) / engaged (for a task) / (in olden times) betrothal gift from the groom's family

sth small that one can find pleasure in (e.g. a cold beer after a hard day or a serendipitous find in a second-hand store)

green area (e.g. urban park or garden)

clear and penetrating (e.g. analysis) / incisive / insightful

to go out to sea / to enter the sea (to swim etc) / (fig.) to take the plunge (e.g. leave a secure job, or enter prostitution etc)