1. to decorate
2. to adorn
3. to dress up
4. to polish (a written piece)
5. to qualify or modify (grammar)

1. (linguistics) noun
2. term (name for a concept)

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

1. thing
2. stuff
3. person

classifiers: 個, 件

1. maybe
2. perhaps
3. might
4. possibly
5. or

1. Original form of 國／国 (guó, “country”).
2. Original form of 域 (yù, “range; territory”).

1. equal
2. equally
3. equivalent

1. dialect
2. language
3. speech