Index
zěnme V jiù zěnme V 怎么/怎麼 V 就怎么/
怎麼 V ‘do as you please’ 54.2.4
zěnme le 怎么了/怎麼了 ‘what is the matter?’
28.6
zěnmeyàng 怎么样/怎麼樣 ‘how about it? 28.6,
30.4.1, 31.2, 60.1.2
zháojí 着急/著急 ‘anxious, nervous’ 55.2
zhe 着/著
in commands 51.1.1
with change-of-state placement verbs 29.3.3
duration, durative aspect 13.5.1, 17.2, 34.4,
39.1, 39.2, 39.3
zhè, zhèi 这/這 ‘this, these’ 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1
zhèlǐ 这里/這裏 ‘here’ 2.2.1.2, 7.3, in distance
expressions 47.4.1
zhèngzài 正在 ‘be in the process of doing’
(progressive markers) 17.2, 17.2.1, 34.2,
34.3
zhèr 这儿/這兒 ‘here’ 2.2.1.2, 7.3, in distance
expressions 47.4.1
zhī 之 9.6
in estimates and approximations 6.5
in fractions 6.6.1
in expressions introducing the cause or
reason 44.2
in percentages 6.6.2
marker of noun modification and possession
9.6, 29.2.3
zhǐ 只 ‘only’ 15.2.5, 30.7.1
zhīdao 知道 ‘know’ 48.6.4, 54.1.1
zhǐ hǎo 只好 ‘the only thing to do is’ 54.2.3
zhǐ shì 指事 ideographs 3.3.2
zhǐyào 只要 ‘as long as’ 45.3
zhìyú 至于/至於 ‘as for (the topic)’ 25.11.4,
57.1.1
zhōngjiān 中间/中間 ‘between’ 47.1
zhōngtóu 钟头/鐘頭 ‘hour’ 49.1
zhuǎnzhù 转注/轉注 semantic derivation
characters 3.3.6
zìcóng 自从/自從 ‘from, ever since’ 14.2.8
zìjǐ 自己 ‘self’ (reflexive pronoun) 5.2.1
zǒng ér yán zhī 总而言之/總而言之 ‘in other
words, to put it another way’ 25.11.6
zǒu 走 ‘go in a direction or toward a location’
48.1.1, ‘walk’ 48.5.1, 48.8
zuì 最 superlative 10.3, 10.6, 33.6, 52.1.2
zuì hǎo 最好 ‘the best thing to do is’ 55.2.3
zuì hòu 最后/最後 ‘finally’ 25.11.6
zuǒbiān 左边/左邊 (左面 zuǒmiàn) ‘left side’
47.1