Vocabulary
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| 总 總 | general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably; anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later; surely; (after a person's name) abbr. for 总经理 or 总编 etc | |
| 张 張 | to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes | |
| 已 已 | already; to stop; then; afterwards | |
| 世界 世界 | world | |
| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 希望 希望 | to hope; a hope; a wish | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 时 時 | o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 把 把 | 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}) | |
| 难看 難看 | ugly; unsightly | Xiehouyu |
| 司 司 | take charge of, control, manage; officer | |
| 百姓 百姓 | common people | |
| 府 府 | prefecture; prefect; government | |
| 门面 門面 | shop front; facade; prestige | |
| 黑子 黑子 | black piece (in Chinese chess); black stone (in Go); (astronomy) sunspot | |
| 书院 書院 | academy of classical learning (Tang Dynasty - Qing Dynasty) | |
| 什么时候 什麼時候 | when?; at what time? | |
| 林 林 | forest, grove; surname | |
| 不得 不得 | must not; may not; not to be allowed; cannot | |
| 思过 思過 | to reflect on one's past errors | |
| 长得 長得 | to look (pretty, the same etc) | |
| 更衣 更衣 | to change clothes; to go to the toilet (euphemism) | |
| 过得 過得 | How are you getting by?; How's life?; contraction of 過得去|过得去, can get by; tolerably well; not too bad | |
| 案 案 | table, bench; legal case | |
| 看在眼里 看在眼裡 | to observe; to take it all in | |
| 房 房 | surname Fang | |
| 两头 兩頭 | both ends; both parties to a deal | |
| 休养生息 休養生息 | to recover; to recuperate | |
| 质 質 | matter, material, substance | |
| 战 戰 | war, fighting, battle | |
| 器 器 | receptacle, vessel; instrument | |
| 排行 排行 | to rank; ranking; seniority (among siblings) | |
| 进取 進取 | to show initiative; to be a go-getter; to push forward with one's agenda | |
| 带回 帶回 | to bring back | |
| 前妻 前妻 | ex-wife; late wife | |
| 名叫 名叫 | called; named | |
| 职 職 | duty, profession; office, post | |
| 好生 好生 | (dialect) very; quite; properly; well; thoroughly | |
| 一定要 一定要 | must | |
| 举起 舉起 | to heave; to lift; to raise up; to uphold | |
| 茅房 茅房 | toilet (rural euphemism); thatched hut or house | |
| 弄到 弄到 | to get hold of; to obtain; to secure; to come by | |
| 夫子 夫子 | Master (old form of address for teachers, scholars); (used sarcastically) pedant | |
| 万事 萬事 | all things | |
| 黑帮 黑幫 | bunch of gangsters; criminal gang; organized crime syndicate | |
| 身为 身為 | in the capacity of; as | |
| 考完 考完 | to finish an exam |