- to attend upon a dying parent or other senior family member; to handle the funeral affairs of a senior family member
- litany (text of a prayer)
- mustache
- (idiom) nervous; fearful; on edge
- compassion; kindness; care for others; love; CL:片[pian4]; charity (bazaar, golf day etc); heart (the symbol ♥)
- to end; to reach an end
- to be puzzled; hard to understand; unintelligible; incomprehensible
- to emerge; to pop up; to spring forth; to appear from nowhere
- to call on (sb to do sth); to appeal (to); an appeal
- initial; preliminary; tentative
- disease; illness
- pregnancy; gestation
- to feel embarrassed or awkward; to make things difficult (for someone); to find things difficult (to do or manage)
- out of one's wits (idiom); distracted; stunned
- to decide; to have the final say
- happy; blissful
- (idiom) lonely soul; solitary
- 下场 xià chǎng: 下场 xia4 chang3: to leave (the stage, an exam room, the playing field etc); to take part in some activity; to take an examination (in the imperial examination system)下场 xià chang: 下场 xia4 chang5: the end; to conclude
- dining room; dining hall; mess hall
- shop assistant; store clerk
- cruel and unfeeling (idiom)
- (idiom) covered all over with cuts and bruises; beaten black and blue
- (idiom) high officials and noble lords; the powerful and influential
- celebrity; public figure
- ordinary person; private citizen; people; the person in the street
- orphan
- desperately serious; disastrous; extremely; exceedingly
- father's younger brother; paternal uncle; form of address used by children for a male one generation older
- emperor of a former dynasty
- favored minister
- official career (formal)
- to be infatuated with
- caring; intimate
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs; foreign office; Dept. of State