1. father's elder brother
2. senior
3. paternal elder uncle
4. eldest of brothers
5. respectful form of address
6. Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 wǔděngjuéwèi

1. to come
2. (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)
3. hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回来 huílai)
4. ever since (as in 自古以来 zìgǔyǐlái)
5. for the past (amount of time)
6. (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 来世 láishì)
7. (between two verbs) in order to
8. (after a round number) approximately
9. (used after 得 dé to indicate possibility, as in 谈得来 tándelái, or after 不 bù to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不来 chībulái)

1. front
2. forward
3. ahead
4. first
5. top (followed by a number)
6. future
7. ago
8. before
9. BC (e.g. 前293年)
10. former
11. formerly

1. improbable
2. unlikely
3. will not (act, happen etc)
4. not able
5. not having learned to do sth
6. (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it
7. not at all

1. to begin
2. beginning
3. to start
4. initial

classifier: 個