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 zhè this / these / (commonly pr. [zhei4] before a classifier, esp. in Beijing)
 běn root / stem / origin / source / this / the current / original / inherent / originally / classifier for books, periodicals, files etc
 zhè ge this / this one
 zhè zhǒng this / this kind of / this sort of / this type of
 zhè wèi this (person)
 zhè xiàng this (thing)
 jīn cì this / the present (meeting etc) / this time / this once
 zhě (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ... / (after a noun) person involved in ... / -er / -ist / (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously) / (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term) / (old) (used at the end of a command) / (old) this
 cǐ this / these
 sī (phonetic) / this
 jīn now / the present time / current / contemporary / this (day, year etc)
 nī this (Cantonese) / see also 哩[li1]
 zhè yàng this kind of / so / this way / like this / such
 zhè me so much / this much / how much? / this way / like this
 jīn nián this year
 rú cǐ in this way / so
 běn dì local / this locality
 běn wén this text / article / the main body of a book
 zhè shí at this time / at this moment
 cǐ shí now / this moment
 jì rán since / as / this being the case
 wài miàn outside (also pr. [wai4 mian5] for this sense) / surface / exterior / external appearance
 cǐ cì this time
 zhì jīn so far / to this day / until now
 běn zhōu this week
 kě jiàn it can clearly be seen (that this is the case) / it is (thus) clear / clear / visible
 wèi cǐ for this reason / with regards to this / in this respect / in order to do this / to this end
 cǐ chù this place / here (literary)
 yóu cǐ hereby / from this
 běn yuè this month / the current month
 cǐ kè this moment / now / at present
 běn bào this newspaper
 zhè lèi this kind (of)
 cǐ shì this matter
 zhè biān this side / here
 cǐ lèi this kind / these kinds / such
 cǐ qián before this / before then / previously
 yǐ cǐ with this / thereby / thus / because of this
 jiù cǐ at this point / thus / from then on
 zhè xià this time
 cǐ hòu after this / afterwards / hereafter
 běn shì this city / our city
 jīn shēng this life
 zhè bān like this / this way
 běn jiè current / this year
 cǐ dì here / this place
 chú cǐ zhī wài apart from this / in addition to this
 běn qī the current period / this term (usually in finance)
 zhè yàng zi so / such / this way / like this
 nián lái this past year / over the last years
 yīng jiè this year's / the current year's
 jù cǐ according to this / on the ground of the above / (formally introduces reported speech in writing)
 jiàn zhuàng upon seeing this, ... / in response, ...
 yóu cǐ kě jiàn from this, it can be seen that...
 rén shì the world / this world / the world of the living
 xiǎo biān editor or creator of online content (diminutive term, often used to refer to oneself: I, me, this writer)
 shí rì time / auspicious time / time and date / long period of time / this day
 běn nián dù this year / the current year
 cǐ shí cǐ kè at this very moment
 chén shì this mortal life / the mundane world
 zhè huì r (coll.) now / this moment / also pr. [zhe4 hui3 r5]
 xiǎng fāng shè fǎ to think up every possible method (idiom) / to devise ways and means / to try this, that and the other
 jīn shì this life / this age
 cǐ jiān here / this place
 zhè gè yuè this month / the current month
 lǎo niáng my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife
 xiàn xià now / at this moment
 jiè cǐ using this as a pretext / thereby
 fǎn guān by contrast / but as for this... / viewed from another angle / subjectively / introspection
 wéi dú only / solely / this one alone
 jīn chén this morning
 hé lè ér bù wéi What can you have against it? (idiom) / We should do this. / Go for it!
 xiàn shì this life / to lose face / to be disgraced
 zhū rú cǐ lèi things like this (idiom) / and so on / and the rest / etc
 rú sī (literary) in this way / so
 jí rì this or that very day / in the next few days
 huì can (i.e. have the skill, know how to) / likely to / sure to / to meet / to get together / meeting / gathering / union / group / association / a moment (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [hui3])
 tiān nán dì běi distant places / all over the country / (to talk) about this and that
 cí shì to die / to depart this life (euphemism) / same as 去世
 gū nǎi nai paternal great-aunt (father's father's sister) / (respectful form of address for a married woman used by members of her parents' family) married daughter / (brassy self-reference used by a woman in an altercation) I / me / this lady here / (coll.) form of address for an unmarried girl or woman, expressing affection or reproach
 zhè me yàng thus / in this way
 qǐ yǒu cǐ lǐ how can this be so? (idiom) / preposterous / ridiculous / absurd
 qǔ cháng bǔ duǎn lit. use others' strengths to make up for one's weak points (idiom from Mencius) / to use this in place of that / what you lose on the swings, you win on the roundabouts
 rán correct / right / so / thus / like this / -ly
 rú xǔ (literary) like this / such (as this) / so much / so many
 yǒu jiàn yú cǐ in view of this / to this end
 zhè me zhe thus / in this way / like this
 fán xīn reluctance to leave this world / heart set on the mundane
 běn tái this radio station
 xià bù wéi lì not to be repeated / not to be taken as a precedent / just this once
西 dōng lā xī chě to talk about this and that (idiom) / to ramble incoherently
 xiān shì to die / to depart this mortal coil
 nǎi ěr thus / like this
 hǔ fú tiger tally (a two-piece object made in the shape of a tiger, used in ancient China as proof of authority. One half of a tally could be issued to a military officer and this would be matched with the other half when verification was required.)
 méi zhì hopeless / helpless / incurable / fantastic / out of this world
 yóng yóng looking up expectantly / speaking softly (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [yu2 yu2])
 fú (classical) this, that / he, she, they / (exclamatory final particle) / (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
 xū suì one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived) &ndash / In this system, a person's age at birth is one, and increases by one at the beginning of the first solar term 立春[Li4 chun1] each year, rather than on one's birthday. / contrasted with 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4]
 cháng shì to depart this life / to be no more
 chòu pí náng this mortal flesh
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