会 會 huì can / to have the skill / to know how to / to be likely to / to be sure to / to meet / to get together / meeting / gathering / (suffix) union / group / association / (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [hui3]) syn 上 shàng (bound form) up / upper / above / previous / first (of multiple parts) / to climb / to get onto / to go up / to attend (class or university) / (directional complement) up / (noun suffix) on / above syn 别 別 bié to leave / to part (from) / (literary) to differentiate / to distinguish / (dialect) to turn away / to turn aside / to avert (one's face, gaze etc) / (bound form) other / another / different / don't ...! / to fasten with a pin or clip / to stick in / to insert (in order to hinder movement) / (noun suffix) category (as in 性別|性别[xing4 bie2], 派別|派别[pai4 bie2]) syn 最 zuì most / the most / -est (superlative suffix) syn 等 děng to wait for / to await / by the time / when / till / and so on / etc. / et al. / (bound form) class / rank / grade / (bound form) equal to / same as / (used to end an enumeration) / (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun) syn 家 jiā home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) / classifier for families or businesses / refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China / noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 起 qǐ to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group syn 住 zhù to live / to dwell / to stay / to reside / to stop / (suffix indicating firmness, steadiness, or coming to a halt) syn 过去 過去 guò qu (verb suffix) syn 头 頭 tou suffix for nouns syn 门 門 mén gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / 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) syn 儿 兒 r non-syllabic diminutive suffix / retroflex final syn 性 xìng nature / character / property / quality / attribute / sexuality / sex / gender / suffix forming adjective from verb / suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity / essence / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 子 zi (noun suffix) syn 边 邊 bian suffix of a noun of locality syn 感 gǎn to feel / to move / to touch / to affect / feeling / emotion / (suffix) sense of ~ syn 作用 zuò yòng to act on / to affect / action / function / activity / impact / result / effect / purpose / intent / (suffix) -ation, -tion etc, as in 抑制作用[yi4 zhi4 zuo4 yong4], inhibition syn 地区 地區 dì qū local / regional / district (not necessarily formal administrative unit) / region / area / as suffix to city name, means prefecture or county (area administered by a prefecture-level city or, county-level city) / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 体 體 tǐ body / form / style / system / substance / to experience / aspect (linguistics) syn 强势 強勢 qiáng shì strong / powerful / (linguistics) emphatic / intensive 让步 讓步 ràng bù to concede / to give in / to yield / a concession / (linguistics) concessive syn 应用 應用 yìng yòng to put to use / to apply / practical / applied (science, linguistics etc) / application / practical use / (computing) app syn 名词 名詞 míng cí (linguistics) noun / term (name for a concept) 同音 tóng yīn (music) unison / (linguistics) homophonous / homonymic 以西 yǐ xī to the west of (suffix) 韵律 韻律 yùn lǜ cadence / rhythm / rhyme scheme / meter (in verse) / (linguistics) prosody syn 以南 yǐ nán to the south of (suffix) 以北 yǐ běi to the north of (suffix) 母语 母語 mǔ yǔ native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language 语言学 語言學 yǔ yán xué linguistics 巴巴 bā bā (suffix) very / extremely 复数 複數 fù shù (linguistics) plural / (math.) complex number 以东 以東 yǐ dōng to the east of (suffix) 映射 yìng shè to shine on / (math., linguistics etc) mapping syn 音译 音譯 yīn yì transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters) / characters giving phonetic value of Chinese word or name (when the correct characters may be unknown) / transcription (linguistics) / to transcribe phonetic symbols syn 词根 詞根 cí gēn (linguistics) root 映衬 映襯 yìng chèn to set off by contrast / antithesis / analogy parallelism (linguistics) syn 呼应 呼應 hū yìng to conform (with) / to echo / to correlate well / (linguistics) agreement syn 前缀 前綴 qián zhuì prefix (linguistics) 形态学 形態學 xíng tài xué morphology (in biology or linguistics) 日化 rì huà household chemicals (cleaning products etc) and toiletries (abbr. for 日用化學製品|日用化学制品[ri4 yong4 hua4 xue2 zhi4 pin3]) / (linguistics) to rhotacize / rhotic 倒装 倒裝 dào zhuāng (linguistics) to invert (word order) 转义 轉義 zhuǎn yì (linguistics) transferred meaning / (computing) to escape 不了 bù liǎo (as a resultative verb suffix) unable to (do sth) / (pattern: {verb} + 個|个[ge5] + ~) without end / incessantly syn 个头 個頭 ge tóu (coll.) (suffix) my ass! / yeah, right! syn 口音 kǒu yīn (linguistics) oral speech sounds syn 未果 wèi guǒ to fail to eventuate / (verb suffix) to be unsuccessful in ...ing syn 收音 shōu yīn to receive a radio signal / to make an audio recording / (of an auditorium etc) to have good acoustics / (vocal training, linguistics) ending (of a word or syllable) 欲滴 yù dī (suffix) replete (with moisture) / glistening / plump and tender / lovely / alluring 下标 下標 xià biāo subscript / suffix / index 字根 zì gēn component of a Chinese character / (linguistics) word root / etymon 情态 情態 qíng tài spirit / mood / (linguistics) modal syn 虚词 虛詞 xū cí (linguistics) function word 词法 詞法 cí fǎ morphology (linguistics) / word formation and inflection 实词 實詞 shí cí (linguistics) content word 多义 多義 duō yì polysemy / polysemous / ambiguity (linguistics) 词类 詞類 cí lèi (linguistics) part of speech / word class / lexical category 模态 模態 mó tài modal (computing, linguistics) 号 號 hào ordinal number / day of a month / mark / sign / business establishment / size / ship suffix / horn (wind instrument) / bugle call / assumed name / to take a pulse / classifier used to indicate number of people syn 坏 壞 huài bad / spoiled / broken / to break down / (suffix) to the utmost syn 鬼 guǐ disembodied spirit / ghost / devil / (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc / sly / crafty / resourceful (variant of 詭|诡[gui3]) / one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy syn 底 dǐ bottom / base / background / foundation / copy (of a manuscript or receipt etc) kept as a record / (suffix) end of a year or month / (math.) radix / base (abbr. for 底數|底数[di3shu4]) syn 座 zuò seat / base / stand / (bound form) constellation / (archaic) suffix used in a respectful form of address (e.g. 師座|师座[shi1zuo4]) / classifier for large immovable objects such as buildings, mountains, bridges etc syn 通 tōng to go through / to know well / (suffix) expert / to connect / to communicate / open / to clear / classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc syn 巴 bā to long for / to wish / to cling to / to stick to / sth that sticks / close to / next to / spread open / informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4] / bar (unit of pressure) / nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail syn 控 kòng to control / to accuse / to charge / to sue / to invert a container to empty it / (suffix) (slang) buff / enthusiast / devotee / -phile or -philia syn 唯 wéi only / alone / -ism (in Chinese, a prefix, often combined with a suffix such as 主義|主义[zhu3 yi4] or 論|论[lun4], e.g. 唯理論|唯理论[wei2 li3 lun4], rationalism) syn 味 wèi taste / smell / (fig.) (noun suffix) feel / quality / sense / (TCM) classifier for ingredients of a medicine prescription syn 易 yì easy / amiable / to change / to exchange / prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible" syn 粉 fěn powder / cosmetic face powder / food prepared from starch / noodles or pasta made from any kind of flour / to turn to powder / (dialect) to whitewash / white / pink / (suffix) fan (abbr. for 粉絲|粉丝[fen3si1]) / to be a fan of syn 腾 騰 téng (bound form) to gallop / to prance / (bound form) to soar / to hover / to make room / to clear out / to vacate / (verb suffix indicating repeated action) syn 升调 昇調 shēng diào to promote to a higher post / (linguistics) rising intonation / (Chinese linguistics) rising tone 喉音 hóu yīn guttural sound / (linguistics) glottal (or laryngeal) consonant 词尾 詞尾 cí wěi suffix 词缀 詞綴 cí zhuì prefix or suffix of a compound word / affix (linguistics) 词汇学 詞彙學 cí huì xué lexicology (linguistics) 语料 語料 yǔ liào (linguistics) language material / language data 麿 mǒ (Japanese kokuji) I, me (archaic) / suffix attached to the name of a person or pet / pr. maro 麿 xx (Japanese kokuji) I, me (archaic) / suffix attached to the name of a person or pet / pr. maro 降调 降調 jiàng diào falling intonation (linguistics) / to lower the key of a tune / to demote 拟音 擬音 nǐ yīn to make a sound effect / sound effect / (historical linguistics) to reconstruct the sound system of an archaic language 词形 詞形 cí xíng form of words (e.g. inflection, conjugation) / morphology (linguistics) 尾缀 尾綴 wěi zhuì (lit.) to follow sb / (linguistics) suffix / ending / (computing) file name extension 颚龈音 顎齦音 è yín yīn prepalatal or palatal sound (linguistics) / palato-alveolar consonant (linguistics) 词缀剥除 詞綴剝除 cí zhuì bō chú affix stripping / to determine the root of a word by removing prefix and suffix 字尾 zì wěi suffix 乸 nǎ feminine suffix (Cantonese) / postfix indicating feminine 后置词 後置詞 hòu zhì cí postposition / suffix / word placed after 后辍 後輟 hòu chuò suffix 秧子 yāng zi sapling / seedling / sprout / (esp.) rice seedling / stem / stalk / vine / baby livestock / fry / (dialect) (derog.) suffix used to indicate a type of person syn 语尾 語尾 yǔ wěi (grammar) suffix 坏了 壞了 huài le shoot! / gosh! / oh, no! / (suffix) to the utmost 接尾词 接尾詞 jiē wěi cí suffix (in Japanese and Korean grammar) 你个头 你個頭 nǐ ge tóu (coll.) (suffix) my ass! / yeah, right! 得可以 de kě yǐ (coll.) (stative verb suffix) very / awfully 配价 配價 pèi jià (linguistics) valence / valency 施事 shī shì (linguistics) agent / doer 首音 shǒu yīn (linguistics) onset 文献学 文獻學 wén xiàn xué Philology / Historical Linguistics 