- human emotions; social relationship; friendship; favor; a good turn
- experienced; sophisticated; worldly-wise
- namely; that is; i.e.; prompt; at once; at present; even if; prompted (by the occasion); to approach; to come into contact; to assume (office); to draw near
- article; essay; literary works; writings; hidden meaning; CL:篇[pian1],段[duan4],頁|页[ye4]
- 时 shí: 时 shi2: o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period时 Shí: 时 Shi2: surname Shi
- a bit; a little bit; (used in negative expressions) (not) the least bit; (after an adjective, used to form the comparative) a bit more, -er; a point (in a discussion etc); (calligraphy) dot stroke (、); one o'clock (abbr. for 一點鍾|一点钟[yi1 dian3 zhong1])
- TV series; TV drama; CL:部[bu4]
- the first time; for the first time
- repeatedly; over and over; to upend; unstable; to come and go; (of an illness) to return
- stress (on a syllable)
- why
- for all eternity; throughout all ages; eternity (used in an elegiac couplet, wreath etc dedicated to the dead)
- to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs
- add and delete
- to read through to evaluate; to referee
- to complete; to accomplish
- sheet; piece of writing; bound set of bamboo slips used for record keeping (old); classifier for written items: chapter, article
- presumably; probably; in all likelihood; surely
- many; quite a few; a good number of
- student; schoolchild
- to go to school
- to write down
- 妻 qī: 妻 qi1: (bound form) wife妻 qì: 妻 qi4: to marry off (a daughter)
- mother (as a social role)
- after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then
- to make out; to see
- years; time
- vestige; mark; trace
- folk art consisting of storytelling to music
- today
- already; to stop; then; afterwards
- yesterday
- 故事 gù shì: 故事 gu4 shi4: old practice故事 gù shi: 故事 gu4 shi5: narrative; story; tale
- 同 tóng: 同 tong2: like; same; similar; together; alike; with同 tòng: 同 tong4: used in 胡同[hu2 tong4]同 tòng: 同 tong4: used in 衚衕|胡同[hu2 tong4]
- a line of verse; a sentence
- dialect; language; spoken words; speech; talk; words; conversation; what sb said; CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]
- before; formerly; previous; ago
- to skate around; to skip over; to skimp
- deep at night
- to comprehend; to understand
- for example; for instance; such as
- to bring up (children); to raise; to bear