1. to use; to make use of; to employ
2. (coverb) with; using
3. to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions)
4. usefulness; utility
5. (bound form) expense; outlay
6. (courteous) to eat; to drink
7. (literary) hence; therefore

1. (bound form) hero
2. heroic
3. outstanding person
4. prominent
5. distinguished

1. (bound form) densely wooded
2. (fig.) (bound form) multitudinous; gloomy; forbidding

1. teacher
2. gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.)
3. husband
4. (dialect) doctor

classifier: 位

1. (dialectal) traditional Chinese medicine physician
2. (literal, Classical) one who was born earlier
3. (literary) Taoist priest
4. (literary) ancestor
5. (literary) father and elder brother
6. An honorific for adults, usually conferred on males: mister; sir; gentleman
7. Taoist priest
8. ancestor
9. father and elder brother
10. husband
11. one who was born earlier
12. traditional Chinese medicine physician

1. to exist
2. to deposit
3. to store
4. to keep
5. to survive

1. to come down
2. (completed action marker)
3. (after verb of motion, indicates motion down and towards us, also fig.)
4. (indicates continuation from the past towards us)
5. to be harvested (of crops)
6. to be over (of a period of time)
7. to go among the masses (said of leaders)

1. (used after a verb) down (toward oneself, or figuratively)
2. down (toward oneself, or figuratively)
3. to come down

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 跑堂兒的 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. coin
2. money
3. unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 兩 liǎng

classifier: 筆

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) a kind of farm tool
2. a kind of farm tool

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. (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. back
2. behind
3. rear
4. afterwards
5. after
6. later
7. post-

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. can
2. may
3. possible
4. able to
5. not bad
6. pretty good

1. to live
2. life
3. livelihood

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 跑堂兒的 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. very; quite
2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)

1. comfortably off
2. ample
3. plenty