"Merely" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 不过 |  bù guò | only / merely / no more than / but / however / anyway (to get back to a previous topic) / cannot be more (after adjectival) |   |
| 单纯 | dān chún | simple / pure / unsophisticated / merely / purely | |
| 就 | jiù | (after a suppositional clause) in that case / then / (after a clause of action) as soon as / immediately after / (same as 就是[jiu4 shi4]) merely / nothing else but / simply / just / precisely / exactly / only / as little as / as much as / as many as / to approach / to move towards / to undertake / to engage in / (often followed by 著|着[zhe5]) taking advantage of / (of food) to go with / with regard to / concerning / (pattern: 就[jiu4] ... 也[ye3] ...) even if ... still ... / (pattern: 不[bu4] ... 就[jiu4] ...) if not ... then must be ... | |
| 光 | guāng | light / ray (CL:道[dao4]) / bright / shiny / only / merely / used up / finished / to leave (a part of the body) uncovered | |
| 只是 | zhǐ shì | merely / only / just / nothing but / simply / but / however | |
| 只不过 | zhǐ bu guò | only / merely / nothing but / no more than / it's just that ... | |
| 仅仅 | jǐn jǐn | barely / only / merely / only (this and nothing more) | |
| 区区 | qū qū | insignificant / trifling / merely | |
| 单单 | dān dān | only / merely / just | |
| 但 | dàn | but / yet / however / still / merely / only / just | |
| 仅 | jǐn | barely / only / merely | |
| 不只 | bù zhǐ | not only / not merely | |
| 不单 | bù dān | not the only / not merely / not simply | |
| 敷衍了事 | fū yǎn liǎo shì | (idiom) to do things half-heartedly / to merely go through the motions | |
| 浅尝 | qiǎn cháng | to merely have a sip or a bite (of one's food or drink) / (fig.) to dabble in / to flirt with (a topic) | |
| 由表及里 | yóu biǎo jí lǐ | to proceed from the outside to the inside / to see the essence merely by looking at the superficial appearance | |
| 非独 | fēi dú | not only / not merely | |
| 颠来倒去 | diān lái dǎo qù | to harp on / over and over / merely ring changes on a few terms | |
| 衹 | zhǐ | variant of 祇|只, only / merely | |
| 行百里者半九十 | xíng bǎi lǐ zhě bàn jiǔ shí | lit. ninety li is merely a half of a hundred li journey (idiom) / fig. the closer one is to completing a task, the tougher it gets / a task is not done until it's done | |
| 秪 | zhī | only, merely | |
| 摆设 | bǎi she | ornament / decorative item / (fig.) sth that is merely for show | |
| 化约 | huà yuē | to simplistically reduce (sth) to just ... / to regard (sth) as merely ... | |
