还 還 hái still / still in progress / still more / yet / even more / in addition / fairly / passably (good) / as early as / even / also / else syn 更 gèng more / even more / further / still / still more syn 日益 rì yì day by day / more and more / increasingly / more and more with each passing day syn 越发 越發 yuè fā increasingly / more and more / ever more / all the more syn 益发 益發 yì fā increasingly / more and more / ever more / all the more syn 哪怕 nǎ pà even / even if / even though / no matter how syn 百尺竿头，更进一步 百尺竿頭，更進一步 bǎi chǐ gān tóu , gèng jìn yī bù lit. after climbing a hundred feet up a pole, one should go even further (idiom) / fig. even if one has achieved a measure of success, one should strive to do even better syn 添堵 tiān dǔ to make people feel even more stressed or annoyed (coll.) / to make traffic congestion even worse 更多 gèng duō more / even more 更加 gèng jiā more (than sth else) / even more syn 多多 duō duō many / much / a lot / lots and lots / more / even more syn 愈加 yù jiā all the more / even more / further syn 愈演愈烈 yù yǎn yù liè ever more critical / problems get more and more intense syn 益加 yì jiā increasingly / more and more / all the more 困难 困難 kùn nan difficult / challenging / straitened circumstances / difficult situation syn 为难 為難 wéi nán to feel embarrassed or awkward / to make things difficult (for someone) / to find things difficult (to do or manage) syn 难保 難保 nán bǎo hard to say / can't guarantee / difficult to protect / difficult to preserve syn 难产 難產 nán chǎn difficult birth / (fig.) difficult to achieve 难 難 nán difficult (to...) / problem / difficulty / difficult / not good syn 难為 難為 nán wéi difficult to do / difficult to manage 克难 克難 kè nán to make do in difficult circumstances by being resourceful / (of circumstances) difficult / challenging / (of a budget) tight / (of a man-made thing) makeshift / rough and ready 比登天还难 比登天還難 bǐ dēng tiān hái nán lit. even harder than reaching the sky (idiom) / fig. extremely difficult / far from an easy task 就是 jiù shì exactly / precisely / only / simply / just / (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even / even if syn 即使 jí shǐ even if / even though syn 不怕 bù pà fearless / not worried (by setbacks or difficulties) / even if / even though syn 即便 jí biàn even if / even though / right away / immediately syn 虽是 雖是 suī shì although / even though / even if 纵然 縱然 zòng rán even if / even though syn 纵使 縱使 zòng shǐ even if / even though syn 即令 jí lìng even if / even though syn 扯平 chě píng to make even / to balance / (fig.) to be even / to call it quits syn 振聋发聩 振聾發聵 zhèn lóng fā kuì lit. so loud that even the deaf can hear (idiom) / rousing even the apathetic syn 即或 jí huò even if / even though syn 齐 齊 qí neat / even / level with / identical / simultaneous / all together / to even sth out syn 八字没一撇 八字沒一撇 bā zì méi yī piě lit. there is not even the first stroke of the character 八[ba1] (idiom) / fig. things have not even begun to take shape / no sign of success yet 八字还没一撇 八字還沒一撇 bā zì hái méi yī piě lit. not even the first stroke of the character 八[ba1] has been written (idiom) / fig. things have not even gotten started yet / nothing tangible has come of one's plans yet 八字还没一撇儿 八字還沒一撇兒 bā zì hái méi yī piě r lit. there is not even the first stroke of the character 八[ba1] (idiom) / fig. things have not even begun to take shape / no sign of success yet 发聋振聩 發聾振聵 fā lóng zhèn kuì lit. so loud that even the deaf can hear (idiom) / rousing even the apathetic syn 两不相欠 兩不相欠 liǎng bù xiāng qiàn to be even / to be quits / to be even-steven 瘦死的骆驼比马大 瘦死的駱駝比馬大 shòu sǐ de luò tuo bǐ mǎ dà lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom) / fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people / a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people 更为 更為 gèng wéi even more syn 倍感 bèi gǎn to feel even more (lonely etc) / to be extremely (sad, delighted etc) syn 鬼怕恶人 鬼怕惡人 guǐ pà è rén lit. ghosts are afraid of evil too / an evil person fears someone even more evil (idiom) 更是 gèng shì even more (so) syn 不过 不過 bù guò only / merely / no more than / but / however / anyway (to get back to a previous topic) / cannot be more (after adjectival) syn 越来越 越來越 yuè lái yuè more and more syn 再度 zài dù once more / once again / one more time syn 十几 十幾 shí jǐ more than ten / a dozen or more 愈来愈 愈來愈 yù lái yù more and more syn 层出不穷 層出不窮 céng chū bù qióng more and more emerge / innumerable succession / breeding like flies (idiom) syn 细化 細化 xì huà to give a more granular level of detail / to elaborate / to refine / to become more differentiated 十数 十數 shí shù more than ten / a dozen or more 渐趋 漸趨 jiàn qū to become more and more / to gradually become 变本加厉 變本加厲 biàn běn jiā lì lit. change to more severe (idiom) / to become more intense (esp. of shortcoming) / to aggravate / to intensify syn 分租 fēn zū (of a landlord) to rent out one or more parts of a property / (of a tenant) to sublet one or more parts of a property / (agriculture) sharecropping 再 zài again / once more / re- / further / beyond this point of time / (before an adjective) more / then (after sth, and not until then) / no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也[ye3] or 都[dou1] for emphasis) / (used to introduce additional information, as in 再則|再则[zai4ze2], 再就是[zai4jiu4shi4] etc) / (literary) to reappear / to reoccur syn 多劳多得 多勞多得 duō láo duō dé work more and get more 愈益 yù yì increasingly / more and more syn 越 yuè to exceed / to climb over / to surpass / the more... the more syn 内卷 內捲 nèi juǎn (embryology) to involute / involution / (neologism c. 2017) (of a society) to become more and more of a rat race / to become increasingly competitive (due to limited resources) 食玉炊桂 shí yù chuī guì food is more precious than jade and firewood more expensive than cassia (idiom) / the cost of living is very high 越来越多 越來越多 yuè lái yuè duō more and more 多子多福 duō zǐ duō fú the more sons, the more happiness (idiom) 益趋 益趨 yì qū increasingly / more and more 知识越多越反动 知識越多越反動 zhī shi yuè duō yuè fǎn dòng the more knowledgeable, the more reactionary (absurd anti-intellectual slogan attributed after the event to the Gang of Four 四人幫|四人帮[Si4 ren2 bang1]) 道高益安，势高益危 道高益安，勢高益危 dào gāo yì ān , shì gāo yì wēi More moral strength increases one's safety, more power and influence increases one's danger (idiom, from Records of the Historian 史記|史记). cf Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it (William Pitt the Elder, 1770). 老小老小 lǎo xiǎo lǎo xiǎo (coll.) as one ages, one becomes more and more like a child 事不过三 事不過三 shì bù guò sān (idiom) a thing should not be attempted more than three times / don't repeat the same mistake again and again / (idiom) bad things don't happen more than three times 众人拾柴火焰高 眾人拾柴火焰高 zhòng rén shí chái huǒ yàn gāo lit. when everybody gathers fuel, the flames are higher (proverb) / fig. the more people, the more strength syn 多个朋友多条路 多個朋友多條路 duō gè péng yǒu duō tiáo lù the more friends you have, the more options you have in life (idiom) 多么 多麼 duō me how (wonderful etc) / what (a great idea etc) / however (difficult it may be etc) / (in interrogative sentences) how (much etc) / to what extent syn 难过 難過 nán guò to feel sad / to feel unwell / (of life) to be difficult syn 难题 難題 nán tí difficult problem syn 不易 bù yì not easy to do sth / difficult / unchanging syn 艰难 艱難 jiān nán difficult / hard / challenging syn 好不容易 hǎo bù róng yì with great difficulty / very difficult syn 难免 難免 nán miǎn hard to avoid / difficult to escape from / will inevitably syn 困惑 kùn huò bewildered / perplexed / confused / difficult problem / perplexity syn 难受 難受 nán shòu to feel unwell / to suffer pain / to be difficult to bear syn 艰苦 艱苦 jiān kǔ difficult / hard / arduous syn 艰辛 艱辛 jiān xīn hardships / arduous / difficult syn 狼狈 狼狽 láng bèi in a difficult situation / to cut a sorry figure / scoundrel! (derog.) syn 身处 身處 shēn chǔ in (some place) / to be in (adversity, a difficult situation, danger, turmoil etc) / to find oneself in / placed in / surrounded by syn 疑难 疑難 yí nán hard to understand / difficult to deal with / knotty / complicated syn 别扭 彆扭 biè niu awkward / difficult / uncomfortable / not agreeing / at loggerheads / gauche syn 艰巨 艱巨 jiān jù (of a task, mission or responsibility) extremely difficult / challenging / demanding syn 过不去 過不去 guò bu qù to make life difficult for / to embarrass / unable to make it through syn 自拔 zì bá to free oneself / to extricate oneself from a difficult situation syn 两难 兩難 liǎng nán dilemma / quandary / to face a difficult choice syn 攻坚 攻堅 gōng jiān to assault a fortified position / (fig.) to concentrate one's efforts on a particularly difficult part of one's mission 重担 重擔 zhòng dàn heavy burden / difficult task / great responsibility syn 发难 發難 fā nàn to rise in revolt / to raise difficult questions syn 吃不消 chī bu xiāo to be unable to tolerate or endure / to find sth difficult to manage syn 难缠 難纏 nán chán (usu. of people) difficult / demanding / troublesome / unreasonable / hard to deal with 刁难 刁難 diāo nàn to be hard on sb / to deliberately make things difficult / Taiwan pr. [diao1nan2] syn 度日 dù rì to pass one's days / to scratch out a difficult, meager existence syn 不在话下 不在話下 bù zài huà xià to be nothing difficult / to be a cinch syn 狂风暴雨 狂風暴雨 kuáng fēng bào yǔ howling wind and torrential rain (idiom) / (fig.) difficult, dangerous situation syn 