east / host (i.e. sitting on east side of guest) / landlord

I; me; my

very; quite / (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)

I'm sorry; excuse me; I beg your pardon / to let (sb) down; to disappoint

band / belt / girdle / ribbon / tire / area / zone / region / CL: 條｜条 / to wear / to carry / to take along / to bear (i.e. to have) / to lead / to bring / to look after / to raise

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]

gate / door / CL: 扇 / gateway / doorway / CL: 個｜个 / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

to move (i.e. relocate oneself) / to move (sth relatively heavy or bulky) / to shift / to copy indiscriminately

second of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / second in order / letter "B" or Roman "II" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / second party (in legal contract, usually 乙方, as opposed to 甲方) / ethyl / bent / winding / radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 5) / ancient Chinese compass point: 105°

to dare / daring / (polite) may I venture

I or me / we (including both the speaker and the person spoken to)

to hand it (i.e. the aforementioned item) to (sb)

brothers / younger brother / CL: 個｜个 / I, me (humble term used by men in public speech) / brotherly / fraternal

other people / sb else / he, she or they / I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")

to wrap; to pack / to put leftovers in a doggy bag for take-out / (computing) to package (i.e. create an archive file)

younger brother / junior male / I (modest word in letter)

at once / right away / immediately / on horseback (i.e. by military force)

bond (esp. document split in two, with each party holding one half) / contract / deed (i.e. title deeds) / ticket / voucher / certificate

to close; to seal off / to close down (an illegal venue) / closed (i.e. isolated from outside input)

(modal particle indicating suggestion or surmise) / ...right? / ...OK? / ...I presume.

to help / to assist / to support / for sb (i.e. as a help) / hired (as worker) / side (of pail, boat etc) / outer layer / upper (of a shoe) / group / gang / clique / party / secret society

Excuse me, may I ask...?

(physics) mass / quality (i.e. degree of excellence) / quality and quantity

gas (i.e. gaseous substance)

I; me; myself / oneself; yourself; himself; herself; the person concerned

right (i.e. an entitlement to sth) / (classical) power and wealth

lit. I dare not (accept the honor); fig. I don't deserve your praise / you flatter me

fear / to dread / I'm afraid that... / perhaps / maybe

first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / (used for an unspecified person or thing) / first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc) / letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / armor plating / shell or carapace / (of the fingers or toes) nail / bladed leather or metal armor (old) / ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old) / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲 system (old) / ancient Chinese compass point: 75°

(coll.) can't do anything about it / (coll.) there's no way that ...; it's simply not credible that ... / (coll.) couldn't be (better) (i.e. simply wonderful)

elementary (i.e. easy)

namely / that is / i.e. / prompt / at once / at present / even if / prompted (by the occasion) / to approach / to come into contact / to assume (office) / to draw near

customs (i.e. border crossing inspection) / CL: 個｜个

person of low social status (old) / I, me (used to refer humbly to oneself) / nasty person / vile character

eternal / everlasting / fig. to pass into eternity (i.e. to die)

father / daddy / "I, your father" (in anger, or out of contempt) / I (used arrogantly or jocularly)

one's own (child) (i.e. one's child by birth) / biological (parents) / birth (parents)

(of trains) down (i.e. away from the capital) / (of river boats) to travel downstream / to issue (a document) to lower bureaucratic levels / (of writing on the page) vertical, proceeding from top to bottom

Chinese Dream (i.e. the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation), term associated with Xi Jinping 習近平｜习近平

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

the monk can run away, but the temple won't run with him (idiom) / you can run this time, but you'll have to come back / I'll get you sooner or later

I've got a solution! / to have a bun in the oven (abbr. for 有了胎)

as far as I'm concerned

Shakyamuni (Sanskrit for "the Sage of the Shakyas", i.e. the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama)

(old) I; my

the former (i.e. the one mentioned first)

to topple (i.e. knock over) / to capsize / fig. to overturn (a regime, by plotting or subversion) / to undermine / to subvert

sorry to interrupt you, but ... / sorry to have bothered you / sorry, I have to go / (slang) (coined c. 2017) used facetiously to terminate a conversation (esp. online) when the other person is being insufferable

to make a fermented drink (i.e. to brew beer, make wine etc)

appearance / bearing / meter (i.e. measuring instrument)

fired power plant (i.e. fired by coal, oil or gas)

line (i.e. of people waiting) / queue

World War I (1914-1918)

same type / category 1 (i.e. class A)

to poke in the eye / (gaming) to place a ward (i.e. vision-granting item) / to keep tabs on (an online discussion etc); to monitor (for updates)

lit. plucking a branch of osmanthus from the Toad Palace (i.e. the moon) / fig. to succeed in the imperial examination

sandpaper (i.e. abrasive)

not to mention ... (i.e. in addition to sth)

to pray for luck and sacrifice to avoid disasters (i.e. traditional superstitions)

a relative (i.e. family relation) / CL: 門｜门, 個｜个, 位

to lay down (a rule, a plan of action) / to draw up / booked out (i.e. already fully booked)

to show disrespect; I'm awfully sorry – please forgive me

general trade (i.e. importing and export without processing)

leave it to me (idiom) / I'll take care of it

radio; wireless (i.e. the technology used in radio telecommunication) / a radio

to celebrate a festival / after the celebrations (i.e. once the festival is over)

(slang) to ship a couple (i.e. to strongly desire that a pair of fictional characters become a couple) / also pr. [ke4 C P]

to enjoy (i.e. have the use or benefit of)

old man / I (an old man referring to himself)

(statistics) period on period (i.e. "month on month" or "quarter on quarter" etc, depending on the context)

if only (sth were possible) / I wish (that)

(archaic) agate / (bound form) standard weight used with a balance scale / number / (computing) code / (clothing) size / yard (unit of length) / (coll.) kilometers per hour (informal misuse of "yard" to mean kph in speed references) / (coll.) to pile up; to stack / classifier for matters, items, situations etc (esp. when indicating whether they are the same or different, as in 不是一碼事｜不是一码事 "not the same thing") / (Tw, HK) (finance) unit of 25 basis points (i.e. a 0.25% change in interest rate)

program (i.e. plan of action) / guiding principle

I.D. number

"double carbon", i.e. peak carbon 碳達峰｜碳达峰 and carbon neutrality 碳中和 / China's double carbon policy, announced in 2020, which aims to reach peak carbon use by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060

adopted son (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)

weight (i.e. importance attached to sth)

(idiom) (of one's circumstances) beyond one's control; unable to do anything about it; (of one's actions) not subject to conscious control (i.e. done in spite of oneself)

to sample; to taste / to appreciate / one's taste (i.e. in music, literature, fashion, food and drink etc); good taste

standard form of a Chinese character / (Tw) traditional (i.e. unsimplified) characters

one's affiliation (i.e. the organization one is affiliated with) / subordinate (i.e. those subordinate to oneself) / belonging to / affiliated / under one's command

convention (i.e. international agreement)

legendary person / legend (i.e. person)

to hide / to conceal / to mask / to shelter / to harbor (i.e. keep sth hidden) / to hide oneself / to lie low / to nestle / hidden / implicit / private / covert / recessed (lighting)

did I ever ...? (or "did he ever ...?" etc)

to model (a figure) in clay / (bound form) plastic (i.e. the synthetic material)

If I had known earlier...

only / just (i.e. it is only that...) / all except / unique

to make up the number (i.e. to fill places up to a given number) / to serve as stopgap

the marketplace (i.e. the world of business and commerce)

someone / a certain person / some people / I (self-address after one's surname)

to condense / to coagulate / coacervation (i.e. form tiny droplets) / aggregation / coherent

(idiom) so that's how it is; I see

extra / surplus / remaining / remainder after division / (following numerical value) or more / in excess of (some number) / residue (math.) / after / I / me

state system (i.e. form of government) / national prestige

third of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / third in order / letter "C" or Roman "III" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 165° / propyl

Chinese (i.e. of Chinese nationality)

if only it were so / I hope so (idiom)

you and I / everyone / all of us (in society) / we (people in general)

Chukuang township in Lienchiang county 連江縣｜连江县 i.e. the Matsu Islands, Taiwan