nowadays / now

as / as if / such as

now / the present time / current / contemporary / this (day, year etc)

I (northern dialects)

prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough

surname Sun

grandson / descendant

to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally / to fail; to go bankrupt / to overthrow / to change (trains or buses) / to move around / to resell at a profit

to invert; to place upside down or frontside back / to pour out / to tip out; to dump / inverted; upside down; reversed / to go backward / contrary to what one might expect; but; yet

to sit / to take a seat / to take (a bus, airplane etc) / to bear fruit / variant of 座[zuo4]

(completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) / (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)

to finish / to achieve / variant of 瞭|了[liao3] / to understand clearly

(of eyes) bright / clear-sighted / to understand clearly

unofficial variant of 瞭[liao4]

used in 自個兒|自个儿[zi4 ge3 r5]

variant of 個|个[ge4]

(classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier) / (bound form) individual

chief (representative, correspondent etc)

head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc

surname Xi

woven mat / seat / banquet / place in a democratic assembly / classifier for banquets, conversations etc

variant of 席[xi2] / woven mat