- life; to survive; to save a life; to scrape a living
- 刑 Xíng: 刑 Xing2: surname Xing刑 xíng: 刑 xing2: punishment; penalty; sentence; torture; corporal punishment
- to destroy; to spoil; to ruin; to injure; cruel; oppressive; savage; brutal; incomplete; disabled; to remain; to survive; remnant; surplus
- (idiom) great plans can be ruined by just a touch of impatience
- to fit in with; to suit; appropriate
- real situation; the truth; true emotions; true feelings
- a good deal of; quite a lot
- to amass; to accumulate; to store up; (math.) product (the result of multiplication); (TCM) constipation; indigestion
- way; method; Taiwan pr. [fa2 zi5]
- to eliminate
- to forfeit (future profit, one's life etc); ruined
- to think of; to call to mind; to anticipate
- suitable; appropriate
- to work; to handle matters; to have a job
- living person
- to contrast; to compare; to place side by side for comparison (as parallel texts); to check
- to maintain good health; to raise a child or animal; curing (of concrete etc)
- (literary) exemplary; virtuous
- (literary) (final particle similar to 嗎|吗[ma5], 呢[ne5] or 啊[a1])
- to be content with what one is
- 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
- 曲 qǔ: 曲 qu3: tune; song; CL:支[zhi1]曲 qū: 曲 qu1: bent; crooked; wrong曲 Qū: 曲 Qu1: surname Qu曲 qū: 曲 qu1: fermentation starter; leaven (molds, yeasts or bacteria used in fermenting soy products or brewing etc); Taiwan pr. [qu2]
- to exchange; to change (clothes etc); to substitute; to switch; to convert (currency)
- at home wherever one is (idiom); ready to adapt; flexible; to accept circumstances with good will
- neither for nor against sth; indifferent
- to portray
- affairs of life; things of the world
- flickering light and passing shadows (idiom); blurred scenery; cursory; superficial
- to understand clearly; evident
- earnest; sincere
- to squeeze; to press; to extrude