1. to ask
2. to invite
3. please (do sth)
4. to treat (to a meal etc)
5. to request

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. stage
2. proscenium
3. foreground in politics etc (sometimes derog.)
4. front desk
5. reception desk
6. (computing) front-end
7. foreground

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. artificial
2. man-made
3. having human cause or origin
4. human attempt or effort

1. (loanword) dozen
2. Taiwan pr. dǎ

1. a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打伞 dǎsǎn "to hold an umbrella", 打电话 dǎdiànhuà "to make a phone call", 打针 dǎzhēn "to get an injection", 打手套 dǎshǒutào "to knit gloves", 打气 dǎqì "to inflate")
2. to hit; to strike
3. to fight
4. (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以后 dǎnàyǐhòu "since then")

1. that one
2. that thing
3. that (as opposed to this)
4. (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis)
5. (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word)
6. (used in speech as a filler, similar to "umm", "you know" etc)
7. (euph.) menstruation
8. sex
9. also pr. nèige

classifiers: 堆, 個