- (bound form) idea; thought; meaning; sense; (bound form) intention; feeling; inclination; state of mind; (bound form) Italy (abbr. for 意大利[Yi4 da4 li4])
- to face; to confront
- pitiless; ruthless; merciless; heartless
- to sneer at; to ridicule; to taunt
- desolate; shortage; scarce; out of practice; absurd; uncultivated; to neglect
- (bound form) cavity; (bound form) speech; talk; tune; accent (in one's speech); (old) classifier for carcasses of slaughtered livestock
- 板 bǎn: 板 ban3: board; plank; plate; shutter; table tennis bat; clappers (music); CL:塊|块[kuai4]; accented beat in Chinese music; hard; stiff; to stop smiling or look serious板 bǎn: 板 ban3: used in 老闆|老板[lao3 ban3]板 pàn: 板 pan4: to catch sight of in a doorway (old)
- should; ought to
- kidney
- (indicating that sth turns out just the opposite of what one would wish) unfortunately; as it happened; (indicating that sth is the opposite of what would be normal or reasonable) stubbornly; contrarily; against reason; (indicating that sb or a group is singled out) precisely; only; of all people
- heart; mind; intention; center; core; CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4]
- to torment; to torture
- nine deaths and still alive (idiom); a narrow escape; new lease of life
- to relate (a story or information); to tell or talk about; to recount; narration; telling; narrative; account
- to make every effort to; striving to do one's best
- close to; intimate
- to restrain; to control; restraint; self-control
- still (remaining); to remain (the same); yet
- inevitably
- heartbroken; extreme depth of sorrow
- to adore; to admire
- vanity
- to lose (money); to have a deficit; to be deficient; to treat unfairly; luckily; fortunately; thanks to; (used to introduce an ironic remark about sb who has fallen short of expectations)
- mother
- no good
- should; ought to
- to suffer; to sustain (loss, misfortune)
- pain; suffering; painful; CL:個|个[ge4]
- penalty; punishment; to punish
- to speak; to say; to talk; to gossip; to tell stories; talk; word
- not be able to hear
- seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be
- physical body
- soul; spirit
- very much; extremely; one ten thousandth part
- to move emotionally; to stir up (emotions); to excite
- complete rest (after an illness)
- condition; state; state of affairs
- to come and go; to roam about (mostly unseen); (of a ghost) to haunt (a place); (of a criminal) to stalk (the streets); (of the sun) to rise and set
- end; conclusion; to come to an end; to terminate (sth)
- 曾 Zēng: 曾 Zeng1: surname Zeng曾 céng: 曾 ceng2: once; already; ever (in the past); former; previously; (past tense marker used before verb or clause)曾 zēng: 曾 zeng1: great- (grandfather, grandchild etc)
- gentrification; aristocratic; upper-class
- (idiom) the four arts of the Chinese scholar (guqin, Go, calligraphy and painting); (by extension) the accomplishments of a well-educated person
- daughter
- to meet again; to be reunited; reunion
- theater; CL:家[jia1],座[zuo4]