1. (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his
2. (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日 tārì and 他人 tārén)

1. to exist; to be alive
2. (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
3. (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)

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. to practice
2. to train
3. to drill
4. to perfect (one's skill)
5. exercise
6. (literary) white silk
7. to boil and scour raw silk

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. 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. (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. head
2. chief
3. first (occasion, thing etc)
4. classifier for poems, songs etc

1. poem for singing
2. tune
3. music

classifier: 支