1. (pronoun) this; these
2. (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun)
3. (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. zhèi, esp. in Beijing)

1. strip
2. item
3. article
4. clause (of law or treaty)
5. classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)

1. question
2. problem
3. issue
4. topic

classifier: 個

1. roughly
2. probably
3. rough
4. approximate
5. about
6. general idea

1. to listen to; to hear
2. to heed; to obey
3. a can (loanword from English "tin")
4. classifier for canned beverages
5. to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. tìng)
6. (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. tìng)

1. to cross
2. to go over
3. to pass (time)
4. to celebrate (a holiday)
5. to live
6. to get along
7. excessively
8. too-

1. next in sequence
2. second
3. the second (day, time etc)
4. secondary
5. vice-
6. sub-
7. infra-
8. inferior quality
9. substandard
10. order
11. sequence
12. hypo- (chemistry)
13. classifier for enumerated events: time

1. (completed action marker)
2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)

1. to finish
2. (used with 得 dé or 不 bù after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 無 wú or 不 bù) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
4. to understand clearly (variant of 瞭 liǎo)

1. (of eyes) bright
2. clear-sighted
3. to understand clearly

1. but; yet; however; still
2. merely; only; just

1. I
2. me
3. my

1. still
2. still in progress
3. still more
4. yet
5. even more
6. in addition
7. fairly
8. passably (good)
9. as early as
10. even
11. also
12. else

1. to pay back
2. to return

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 旋 (“to rotate; to turn around”)
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) immediately
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) nimble; agile
4. alternative form of 旋 (“to rotate; to turn around”)
5. immediately
6. nimble; agile

1. unexpected
2. hard to imagine
3. it had not occurred to me
4. who could have thought that

1. else
2. other

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