1 thing

2 object

3 classifier: 个 gè

1 person

2 character (in a play, novel etc)

3 protagonist

4 classifier: 个 gè

1 animal

2 classifier: 只 zhī

3 classifier: 群 qún

4 classifier: 个 gè

1 originally

2 original

1 basic

2 fundamental

3 main

4 elementary

1 small capital, huge profit (idiom); to put in a little and get a lot out

1 lit. one object bests another object

2 every item has a weakness (idiom)

3 there is a rock to every scissor, a scissor to every paper, and a paper to every rock

1 to talk shop all the time (idiom)

1 Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence

1 love to all creatures (idiom, from Mencius); universal benevolence