of; ~'s (possessive particle) / (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun) / (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis) / (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的｜跑堂儿的 "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 "new one") / also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs

Chinese character(s)

we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to) / (dialect) I or me / (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you / also pr. [za2 men5]

there still remain(s); there is (or are) still / in addition

taste bud(s)

(bound form) woods; forest / (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / (bound form) a collection (of similar things)

brother(s) and sister(s)

Narnia, children's fantasy world in stories by C.S. Lewis

What's up?; Is something the matter? / (coll.) (used in rhetorical questions of the form 關｜关 + {person} + 什麼事｜什么事 "what business is it of {person}'s?; what's it to {person}?")

exhausting / hard / tough / arduous / to work hard / to go to a lot of trouble / hardship(s)

signature dish / a restaurant’s most famous dish

to put oneself in sb else’s shoes

(Japanese) high school girl’s uniform

Bugatti (name) / Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. (French car company)

Standard and Poor's (S&P), company specializing in financial market ratings / S&P financial index

the front piece(s) of a Chinese jacket / lapel

to get one’s courage up / to embolden

(coll.) young child; the little one(s) of the family / (old) (humble) I; me; my (used by a commoner when speaking to an official)

father and elder brother(s) / head of the family / patriarch

Banco Delta Asia S.A.R.L., Macau

to cover one's face with one's hand(s); to facepalm

alveolar / consonants z, c, s produced with the tip of the tongue on the alveolar ridge

to wipe one’s ass / (fig.) (coll.) to clean up sb else's mess

sigma (Greek letter Σ, σ)

in the newspaper(s)

road condition(s) (e.g. surface, traffic flow etc)

lit. seek but fail to get (idiom); fig. exactly what one’s been looking for

picosecond, ps, 10^-12 s

(Tw) a barcode presented at checkout, used to electronically save the receipt 統一發票｜统一发票 to the customer’s cloud account

microsecond, µs, 10^-6 s

to enroll without declaring one's major or department (in one's first year(s) of university)

(Tw) (in a research project) collaborator of the investigator(s)

The Chronicles of Narnia, children's stories by C.S. Lewis

arms race / armament(s) race

Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), American writer known for her novels on Asian cultures, Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize laureate

to use the tip of another person’s lit cigarette to light one's own

reading or phonetic value of a character / (Japanese linguistics) on-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from its pronunciation in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: An on-reading of a character is distinguished from its kun-reading(s) 訓讀｜训读. For example, 山 has an on-reading "san" and a kun-reading "yama".)

S.D. Poisson (1781-1840), French mathematician / also pr. [Po1 song1]

lit. to hope one's son becomes a dragon (idiom); fig. to long for one' s child to succeed in life / to have great hopes for one's offspring / to give one's child the best education as a career investment

a reading of a written Chinese word derived from a synonym (typically, a vernacular synonym) (e.g. in Mandarin, 投子 may be pronounced as its synonym 色子, and in Wu dialects, 二 is pronounced as its synonym 兩｜两 "liahn") / to pronounce a word using such a reading / (Japanese linguistics) kun-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from a native Japanese word that matches its meaning rather than from the pronunciation of the character in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: A kun-reading of a character is distinguished from its on-reading(s) 音讀｜音读. For example, 山 has a kun-reading "yama" and an on-reading "san".)

exception(s)

recent year(s)

circumstance(s) encountered in one's life (favorable or otherwise) / stroke of luck / opportunity

words written on one’s deathbed / an artist's final work / swansong

nanosecond, ns, 10^-9 s (PRC) / Taiwan equivalent: 奈秒

sigma (Greek letter Σ, σ)

(U.S.) Peace Corps

to hope / to expect / expectation(s)

pro-U.S.

military strength / military force(s)

open system(s)

(neologism c. 2021) (slang) to illegally migrate (esp. from China to the U.S. via Latin America through high-risk routes) / a route of such illegal migration

nanosecond, ns, 10^-9 s (Tw) / PRC equivalent: 納秒｜纳秒

imperial sword (giving bearer arbitrary powers) / in fiction, Chinese version of 007's license to kill

Mao Zedong’s birthday, December 26th

femtosecond, fs, 10^-15 s

P.S. / postscript

the straw that broke the camel’s back (idiom) / the final straw

S-shaped / serpentine / coiled like a snake

(neologism c. 2012) (interjection of encouragement) Let’s do this! / Come on, you can do this!

lit. a hair plucked from (person A) would be thicker than (person B)'s waist (idiom) / fig. A is far richer (or more powerful) than B / (used in a pattern such as A拔根汗毛比B的腰粗)

complement of a set S (math.) / the set of all x not in set S

ankylosing spondylitis / Bechterew’s disease

double-stamen orchid (Diplandrorchis sinica S.C. Chen), an endangered species

“Methods of Sima”, also called “Sima Rangju’s Art of War”, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書｜武经七书, written by Sima Rangju 司馬穰苴｜司马穰苴

variant of 尚方劍｜尚方剑 / imperial sword (giving bearer arbitrary powers) / in fiction, Chinese version of 007's license to kill

alveolar / consonants z, c, s produced with the tip of the tongue on the alveolar ridge