- tool; device; utensil; equipment; instrument; talent; ability; to possess; to have; to provide; to furnish; to state; classifier for devices, coffins, dead bodies
- (idiom) badly mangled or mutilated; gruesome
- corpse; dead body
- eyebrow; upper margin
- interjection of surprise; Oh my!
- to throw oneself at; to pounce on; to devote one's energies; to flap; to flutter; to dab; to pat; to bend over
- to provide for; to keep (animals, a family etc); to raise animals; to feed and clothe; support; the necessities of life; to give birth
- quietly; in a low voice
- together
- to follow
- next; later; after that
- assistant; helper
- excuse me
- to state explicitly; to clearly indicate
- widow
- (coll.) to hold; to grip; to grasp
- touching; moving
- good person; healthy person; person who tries not to offend anyone, even at the expense of principle
- miserable; wretched; cruel; inhuman; disastrous; tragic; dim; gloomy
- 轧 zhá: 轧 zha2: to roll (steel)轧 yà: 轧 ya4: to crush; to knock sb down with a vehicle轧 Yà: 轧 Ya4: surname Ya轧 gá: 轧 ga2: to crush together (in a crowd); to make friends; to check (accounts)
- desirable; worth having; (of a suggestion etc) commendable; worthy
- 直 Zhí: 直 Zhi2: surname Zhi; Zhi (c. 2000 BC), fifth of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God直 zhí: 直 zhi2: straight; to straighten; fair and reasonable; frank; straightforward; (indicates continuing motion or action); vertical; vertical downward stroke in Chinese characters
- to tremble; to shiver (of cold); to shudder
- to leave port; to put off
- (idiom) bad omen
- important; urgent
- to entrust; to place in sb's care; (bound form) to depend on; to attach oneself to; to reside temporarily; (bound form) foster (as in 寄女[ji4 nu : 3] foster daughter); to send by post; to mail
- 妻 qī: 妻 qi1: (bound form) wife妻 qì: 妻 qi4: to marry off (a daughter)
- in a low voice; softly
- to break away from; to cast off (old ideas etc); to get rid of; to break away (from); to break out (of); to free oneself from; to extricate oneself
- superfluous; unnecessary; surplus
- to be in the way; to be a hindrance; (usu. in the negative) to be of consequence; to matter
- to receive (letter etc)
- to lean on; to rely on
- hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation)
- lit. count by fives and tens (idiom); to narrate systematically and in full detail