- mien; bearing; grace; amorous feelings; flirtatious expressions; local conditions and customs; wind force, direction etc
- always; throughout (a period of time); (of) all-time
- to hunt for novelty; to seek novelty
- fountainhead; well-spring; water source; fig. origin
- a devastating criticism; to expose hidden motives
- definite; exact; precise
- appearance; facial features; look
- resourceful; full of stratagems
- a son who is an only child
- heir; successor
- imagination
- Susan (name)
- to make a firm resolution
- rich person; the rich
- to fill or stuff; (of a form etc) to fill in
- to change shape in a single shake; fig. to take on a new lease of life
- skin; CL:層|层[ceng2],塊|块[kuai4]
- muscle; flesh
- grace; graceful
- gas; air; smell; weather; to make angry; to annoy; to get angry; vital energy; qi
- to attract; to titillate
- impossible to unravel; confusing
- sentiment; feeling
- using this as a pretext; thereby
- to arrest; to capture; to seize; to win (a set, a game etc)
- blueprint; source material on which later works (books, movies etc) are based
- subject; title; topic; exercise or exam question (CL:道[dao4])
- to lean; to slant; oblique; prejudiced; to deviate from average; to stray from the intended line; stubbornly; contrary to expectations
- to fall in love at first sight (idiom)
- 证 zhèng: 证 zheng4: to admonish证 zhèng: 证 zheng4: certificate; proof; to prove; to demonstrate; to confirm
- archive library
- to conserve; to preserve; to keep; to store; (computing) to save (a file etc)
- diary; CL:則|则[ze2],本[ben3],篇[pian1]
- 录 lù: 录 lu4: to carve wood录 Lù: 录 Lu4: surname Lu录 lù: 录 lu4: diary; record; to hit; to copy
- ethnic Chinese person or people
- (idiom) (of people) born and raised in the locality; (of art forms, political parties, enterprises, products etc) developed locally from the outset; wholly indigenous
- dark; dark colored
- Annam (Tang Dynasty protectorate located in what is now northern Vietnam); Annam (autonomous kingdom located in what is now northern Vietnam, 10th-15th century); Annam (central part of Vietnam during the French colonial period); old name for Vietnam; Annan District in Tainan 臺南|台南[Tai2 nan2], Taiwan; Kofi Annan (1938-2018), UN secretary-general 1997-2006
- appetite; liking