- satin; silk fabric
- beautiful
- several days
- to leave home (to live somewhere else)
- to eat and drink; food and drink
- to perform in opera
- family property
- (of status or wealth) to decline; (of buildings etc) to become dilapidated; run-down; (of plants) to wilt
- back door; back gate; (fig.) back-door influence; under-the-table dealings; anus; (computing) backdoor
- (idiom) to possess nothing except bare necessities; to live a frugal life
- to worship money; to be mad about money
- to develop rapidly after abrupt turn (idiom); dramatic change
- to run away; to flee (the country)
- 黄 Huáng: 黄 Huang2: surname Huang or Hwang黄 huáng: 黄 huang2: yellow; pornographic; to fall through
- a person who has passed the county level imperial exam (historical); scholar; skillful writer; fine talent
- front court; courtyard
- plain tea and simple food; (fig.) bread and water
- diligent; hardworking
- a few years; several years; how many years?
- family financial situation; family circumstances
- poor; poverty-stricken; impoverished
- to go on a tour; to have an outing
- merchant
- wicked idea; evil thought; evil desire
- confidence trick in which a man is lured by an attractive woman
- money; silver
- 媳妇 xí fu: 媳妇 xi2 fu5: (dialect) wife; (dialect) young married woman媳妇 xí fù: 媳妇 xi2 fu4: daughter-in-law; wife of a younger brother or relative of the younger generation
- (bound form) footprint; trace; tracks
- (bound form) to confer; to bestow; to grant; (literary) gift; favor; Taiwan pr. [si4]
- to commemorate; to honor the memory of; memento; keepsake; souvenir
- true motive; true feelings
- life (a person's whole life); in one's entire life
- (bound form) stingy
- broken; damaged; worn out; lousy; rotten; to break, split or cleave; to get rid of; to destroy; to break with; to defeat; to capture (a city etc); to expose the truth of
- demonic; iniquitous; nefarious; evil; unhealthy influences that cause disease (Chinese medicine); (coll.) strange; abnormal
- to deceive; to dupe; falsehood; lie; (dialect) to amuse
- astonishing
- fox-spirit; vixen; witch; enchantress
- individually; one by one; just one or two; exceptional; rare
- to comply with; to abide by; to respect (an agreement)
- faithful unto death (i.e. Confucian ban on widow remarrying)
- to be in the majority