zhè
lǎo
tóu
r
dào
nǎ
r
qù
le
Where did the old man go?
(pronoun) this; these / (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun) / (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing)
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see 老頭子|老头子[lao3 tou2 zi5]
old fellow / old man / father / husband
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/ old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough
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head / hair style / the top / end / beginning or end / a stub / remnant / chief / boss / side / aspect / first / leading / classifier for pigs or livestock / CL:個|个[ge4]
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variant of 人[ren2] / "person" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 10), occurring in 兒, 兀, 兄 etc
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non-syllabic diminutive suffix / retroflex final
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to (a place) / until (a time) / up to / to go / to arrive / (verb complement denoting completion or result of an action)
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to reach; to arrive / to leave for; to go to / to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point) / (verb complement indicating arriving at a place or reaching a point) / considerate; thoughtful; thorough
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where? / wherever / anywhere
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na = n + a5
(emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊[a5] after a word ending in "n")
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used in 哪吒[Ne2 zha1] / Taiwan pr. [nuo2]
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which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier)
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to go / to go to (a place) / (of a time etc) last / just passed / to send / to remove / to get rid of / to reduce / to be apart from in space or time / to die (euphemism) / to play (a part) / (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth / (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker) / (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
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le = l + e5
(completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) / (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
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to finish / to achieve / variant of 瞭|了[liao3] / to understand clearly
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(of eyes) bright / clear-sighted / to understand clearly
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unofficial variant of 瞭[liao4]
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