- danger; dangerous
- somewhat; to some extent
- to fear
- 怕 Pà: 怕 Pa4: surname Pa怕 pà: 怕 pa4: to be afraid; to fear; to dread; to be unable to endure; perhaps
- young; underage
- (of a plot etc) to fall through and stand exposed
- to be deemed guilty; to be convicted
- prison; jail
- to worry; to be concerned
- to clean up
- to appeal (a judicial case); appeal
- public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal)
- main hall; front courtyard; law court
- in fact; in reality; actually; as a matter of fact; de facto; ipso facto
- lawsuit
- to lose a lawsuit
- not need; have no use for
- teachers and students
- Saigon, capital of former South Vietnam; Sai Kung town in New Territories, Hong Kong
- 沙 Shā: 沙 Sha1: surname Sha沙 shā: 沙 sha1: granule; hoarse; raspy; sand; powder; CL:粒[li4]; abbr. for Tsar or Tsarist Russia沙 shà: 沙 sha4: (dialect) to sift; to sieve
- to drip; to strain or filter; a trickle
- to surpass; to exceed; to outstrip
- clothing; unlined garment
- Mekong River
- ferry
- car; automobile; bus; CL:輛|辆[liang4]
- glove; mitten; CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]
- chauffeur; driver
- to form; to take shape
- the whole family; members of the same family (lit. or fig.)
- son of the boss; young master of the house; your son (honorific)
- to entertain; to be hospitable to
- dining table; dinner table; CL:張|张[zhang1]
- Pacific Ocean
- to nibble away at sth; to eat into; to erode
- (lit. and fig.) overnight
- to bet; to gamble
- outside (also pr. [wai4 mian5] for this sense); surface; exterior; external appearance
- to learn; to master; institute; learned society; (scholarly) association
- (idiom) reluctant to speak about it; tight-lipped