1. today
2. the present time; now

classifiers: 份, 頓, 次, 餐

1. I
2. me
3. my

1. to eat; to consume
2. to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
3. to eradicate; to destroy
4. to absorb
5. to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)

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 无 wú or 不 bù) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
4. to understand clearly (variant of 了 liǎo)

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

1. used in 腌臜 āzā
2. Taiwan pr. āng

1. to salt
2. to pickle
3. to cure (meat)
4. to marinate

1. (Ningbonese) to apply soap to; to dab or cover with soap
2. (Ningbonese, of one's body) to be drenched in sweat
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 豔 /艳 (yàn, “to envy”)
4. alternative form of 豔 /艳 (yàn, “to envy”)
5. to apply soap to; to dab or cover with soap
6. to be drenched in sweat