- to control; to restrict; to moderate; to temper; moderation; sobriety; to administer
- main part; bulk; body; subject; agent
- characteristic; diagnostic property; distinctive feature; trait
- holiday; festival; CL:個|个[ge4]
- unwritten (rule)
- clause (of contract or law); CL:項|项[xiang4]
- question; interrogation; doubt
- lung capacity; lung power; boldness; confidence; self-assurance; vigor
- to inspect; to observe and study; on-the-spot investigation
- dispirited; dejected; dismayed
- (of a woman) virtuous
- as cold as ice and frost (idiom, usually of woman); icy manner; frigid
- (literary) dirty; filthy; (literary) dirt; filth
- to give material assistance to
- to jeopardize; to be harmful to; to undermine
- incense burning in front of a temple; burning joss sticks
- to settle a debt
- family matters; domestic affairs; housework
- 供养 gōng yǎng: 供养 gong1 yang3: to supply; to provide for one's elders; to support one's parents供养 gòng yǎng: 供养 gong4 yang3: to make offerings to (gods or ancestors); Taiwan pr. [gong4yang4]
- to clear away; to eliminate; to get rid of
- to carry on one's ancestral line
- according to; basis; foundation
- to involve; to implicate; to be interrelated
- to be full of; to be rich in
- next door; neighbor
- to come up; to approach; (verb complement indicating success)
- to prostitute oneself; to sell oneself into slavery
- Song Jiang, a principal hero of the novel Water Margin 水滸傳|水浒传
- son born of a concubine; disaster; sin; evil
- toss a peach, get back a plum (idiom); to return a favor; to exchange gifts; Scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours.
- vastly different; poles apart
- 舍 shě: 舍 she3: to give up; to abandon; to give alms舍 Shè: 舍 She4: surname She舍 shè: 舍 she4: (bound form) residence; house; (bound form) my (in speaking of relatives younger than oneself, as in 舍妹[she4 mei4]); (archaic) unit of distance equal to 30 li 里[li3]
- to serve; to wait upon
- to give birth to a baby; (of animals) to give birth to young