1. gate
2. door
3. gateway
4. doorway
5. opening
6. valve
7. switch
8. way to do something
9. knack
10. family
11. house
12. (religious) sect
13. school (of thought)
14. class
15. category
16. phylum or division (taxonomy)
17. classifier for large guns
18. classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology
19. (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

classifiers: 扇, 個

1. as (in the capacity of)
2. to take sth as
3. to act as
4. to serve as
5. to behave as
6. to become
7. to be
8. to do
9. by (in the passive voice)

1. because of
2. for
3. to

1. excessive; undue
2. to exceed; to be more than
3. very; extremely
4. (dialect) what; whatever (Taiwan pr. shén)

1. tiny
2. insignificant

1. to be (followed by substantives only)
2. correct; right; true
3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)

1. to open (transitive or intransitive)
2. (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start
3. to turn on; to put in operation; to operate; to run
4. to boil
5. to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc)
6. (directional complement) away; off
7. carat (gold)
8. abbr. for Kelvin, 开尔文 Kāiěrwén
9. abbr. for 开本 kāiběn, book format

1. a move in chess (Taiwan pr. zhuó)
2. trick; tactic
3. (dialect) okay; all right
4. (dialect) to put in; to add

1. to touch
2. to come in contact with
3. to feel
4. to be affected by
5. to catch fire
6. to burn
7. (coll.) to fall asleep
8. (after a verb) hitting the mark
9. succeeding in

1. to wear (clothes)
2. to contact
3. to use
4. to apply

1. to make known
2. to show
3. to prove
4. to write
5. book
6. outstanding

1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 pígéde "one made of leather" or 跑堂儿的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
5. also pr. dì or di in poetry and songs