- square; square-shaped
- to fall behind; to lag (in technology etc); backward; to retrogress
- marketplace; market; bazaar; (economics) market
- to compete; to contend; to struggle
- (bound form) article; commodity; product; goods; (bound form) grade; rank; kind; type; variety; character; disposition; nature; temperament; to taste sth; to sample; to criticize; to comment; to judge; to size up; fret (on a guitar or lute)
- to attend to the needs of (an invalid, disabled person etc); caregiver
- wholeheartedly; heart and soul
- to work; to be employed
- expert
- to provoke; to irritate; to vex; to stir up; to anger; to attract (troubles); to cause (problems)
- to feel agitated; to be troubled; to be annoyed; an upset or distraction
- compared with
- to make (some time or space) available (for sb)
- (idiom) to fondly remember a person on seeing sth one associates with them
- a small cup; classifier for lamps
- to describe; description
- wise man
- outsider; foreigner; stranger
- tricky; problematic; difficult; to scratch one's head (in puzzlement)
- lit. happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy (idiom); fig. emotions
- to encumber; to be a burden on; to implicate
- to be related; to be connected; relationship; connection
- creator
- disorderly; irregular; lack of order
- to evolve; evolution
- an era; an age; a generation
- philosophy
- from birth; by one's nature
- back (of a human or other vertebrate)
- 凉 Liáng: 凉 Liang2: the five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前涼|前凉 (314-376), Later Liang 後涼|后凉 (386-403), Northern Liang 北涼|北凉 (398-439), Southern Liang 南涼|南凉[Nan2 Liang2] (397-414), Western Liang 西涼|西凉 (400-421)凉 liàng: 凉 liang4: to let sth cool down凉 liáng: 凉 liang2: cool; cold
- convenient; easy; to facilitate
- to sink down to; to be reduced to (sth inferior)
- slave
- all things
- to sculpt; to carve (jade); ornate artwork; overly elaborate prose
- whenever; every time
- profound; deep; deep-going
- deep and unmeasurable (idiom); unfathomable depths; incomprehensible; enigmatic and impossible to predict
- subtle; shrewd; sophisticated