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. to cross
2. to go over
3. to pass (time)
4. to celebrate (a holiday)
5. to live
6. to get along
7. excessively
8. too-

classifiers: 份, 頓, 次, 餐

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

1. preparation
2. to prepare
3. to intend
4. to be about to
5. reserve (fund)

1. good
2. appropriate; proper
3. all right!
4. (before a verb) easy to
5. (before a verb) good to
6. (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so
7. (verb complement indicating completion)
8. (of two people) close; on intimate terms
9. (after a personal pronoun) hello

1. to want; to need; to ask for
2. will; shall; about to
3. need to; should
4. if (same as 要是 yàoshi)
5. (bound form) important

1. (archaic) alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
2. alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
3. used in 要褭／要袅

1. to go out
2. to leave home
3. to go on a journey
4. away from home
5. (of a woman) to get married

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