1 (business) company

2 company

3 firm

4 corporation

5 incorporated

6 classifier: 家 jiā

1 flavor

2 smell

3 hint of

1 to know

2 to become aware of

3 also pr. [zhī dao]

1 (coll.) husband

1 road

2 path

3 classifier: 条 tiáo

4 classifier: 股 gǔ

5 principle

6 truth

7 morality

8 reason

9 skill

10 method

11 Dao (of Daoism)

12 to say

13 to speak

14 to talk

15 classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process

16 (old) circuit (administrative division)

1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)

2 fig. to ride on sb else's success

3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too

4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it

1 one word says it all (idiom)

2 to hit the nail on the head

3 to be pithy and correct

1 no use to tell others

2 let's keep this between ourselves (idiom)

1 compassion, duty, propriety and integrity (idiom); all the traditional virtues

2 mainly used sarcastically, to mean hypocritical

1 to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹); to get revenge by playing sb back at his own game

2 to give sb a taste of his own medicine