1 element

2 element of a set

3 chemical element

1 element

2 factor

3 classifier: 个 gè

1 raw silk

2 white

3 plain, unadorned

4 vegetarian (food)

5 essence

6 nature

7 element

8 constituent

9 usually

10 always

11 ever

1 inner quality

2 basic essence

1 vitamin

1 lit. to follow one road until dark (idiom)

2 fig. to stick to one's ways

3 to cling to one's course

1 hardworking, thrifty, plain, and simple (idiom)

1 all crows are black (idiom)

2 evil people are bad all over the world

1 to hold a sinecure (idiom)

1 to continue in one's own way (idiom)