福（fú）
good fortune / happiness / luck / surname Fu
Chinese people often will put this character on their doors but will usually place it upside down. This is because the phrase;
你的福倒了（nǐ de fú dào le）
Your good fortune is upside down.
sounds exactly the same as
你的福到了（nǐ de fú dào le）
Your good fortune has arrived.
有什么菜可以推荐的（yǒu shén me cài kě yǐ tuī jiàn de）
What dishes can you recommend?
翡翠虾球（fěi cuì xiā qiú）
Jade shrimp balls（Shrimp balls with broccoli, or some type of green vegetable）
日（rì）
sun / day / day of month
号（hào）
day of month / (ordinal) number
天（tiān）
day / sky / heaven
今天（jīn tiān）
today
昨天（zuó tiān）
yesterday
前天（qián tiān）
the day before yesterday
明天（míng tiān）
tomorrow
后天（hòu tiān）
the day after tomorrow
高（gāo）
high / tall / above average / loud / your (honorific) / surname Gao
低（dī）
low / beneath / to lower (one’s head) / to let droop / to hang down / to incline
具 can have a lot of different meanings. In many words it appears as the second character of the word and mean tool, or thing. Some common examples are found below.
具（jù）
/tool/device/utensil/equipment/instrument/
/talent/ability/to possess/to have/to provide/to furnish/to state/
家具 （jiā jù）“home tool”
furnature
茶具（chá jù）“tea tool”
tea set
玩具（wán jù）“play tool”
toy
酒具（jiǔ jù）“wine tool”
wine vessel / wine cup
鸟（niǎo)
bird
乌（wū）
a crow / black / surname Wu / abbreviation for 乌克兰（Ukraine)
马（mǎ）
horse / Surname Ma / abbreviation for 马来西亚（Malaysia）
I have created a new Chinese-English dictionary plugin for Mac OS X’s dictionary application. The word list is more up to date than in the existing plugin and I feel the format is easier to access especially on the inline tooltip you get when you press Command-D.
感恩节（gǎn ēn jié ）
Thanksgiving holiday
圣诞节（shèng dàn jié）
Christmas holiday
网址
wǎng zhǐ
website / URL
网志 （网络日志）
wǎng zhì (wǎng luò rì zhì)
web log / blog
博客
bó kè
blog / blogger
一样
same
不一样
different
跟你一样
same as you