Sentence Composition
| 1 | 您 | nín | you (courteous, as opposed to informal 你 nǐ) |
| =2 | 讀 | dòu |
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| =2 | 讀 | dú |
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| =3 | 告示 | gàoshi | announcement |
| =3 | 告示 | gàoshì |
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| =4 | 了 | le |
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| =4 | 了 | liǎo |
| =4 | 了 | liǎo |
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| =4 | 了 | liào | unofficial variant of 瞭 liào |
| =5 | 嗎 | má | (coll.) what? |
| =5 | 嗎 | mǎ | used in 嗎啡 mǎfēi |
| =5 | 嗎 | ma | (question particle for "yes-no" questions) |