1. to be (followed by substantives only)
2. correct; right; true
3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)

1. optimal
2. optimum

1. (bound form) refined; elegant; graceful; beautiful
2. (bound form) superior; excellent
3. (loanword) show
4. (literary) to grow; to bloom; (of grain crops) to produce ears

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. variant of 歲 suì, year
2. years old

1. classifier for years (of age)
2. year
3. year (of crop harvests)

1. that level or lower
2. that amount or less
3. the following

classifiers: 個, 隻

1. athlete
2. contestant