- innate character; natural disposition; attitude
- one's true nature (Buddhism)
- insignificant; trifling; merely
- inside
- to curse
- bitter resentment; rancor
- to be irrelevant; to have nothing to do with
- the result (becomes apparent); now one understands
- weak; faint; feeble
- battle array; disposition of forces; situation; circumstance
- cage; pen; scabbard
- fierce tiger
- to advance; to step forward
- to fight hand-to-hand
- to condense; to solidify; to coagulate; clot (of blood)
- to dissect (an animal); to analyze; anatomy
- to obtain (a result); to arrive at (a conclusion)
- a portion smaller than a half; the lesser part; the smaller part
- (personal) accomplishment; attainment in self-cultivation
- ambience; mood; flavor
- hobby; indulgence; habit; addiction
- normally; as things should be; by rights; to reason things out; logic
- lit. from head to tail (idiom); thoroughgoing; through and through; out and out; from top to bottom
- lit. penetrate to the marrow (idiom); deeply affected; moved to the core
- years of age; age
- proletariat
- congenial; agreeable; to speculate; to profiteer
- captive
- (idiom) to disregard all negative considerations; to cast aside all concerns
- yesterday
- to tactfully decline; to turn down gracefully
- base; center; basis; point of departure; starting point; (finance) basis point (abbr. for 基本點|基本点[ji1 ben3 dian3])
- to fix; to fasten; to set rigidly in place; fixed; set; regular
- (name) Karl; Carl
- Mannheim, German city at the confluence of Rhine and Neckar
- irreversible
- to save from damage; to preserve; to maintain; to keep in good repair; (Tw) security guard
- unruly; uninhibited
- to spend one's time in drinking and pleasure (idiom); to indulge in sensual pleasures; life of debauchery
- (bound form) to raid; to attack; (bound form) to continue the pattern; to perpetuate; (literary) classifier for suits of clothing or sets of bedding
- 钻 zuān: 钻 zuan1: to drill; to bore; to get into; to make one's way into; to enter (a hole); to thread one's way through; to study intensively; to dig into; to curry favor for personal gain钻 zuàn: 钻 zuan4: drill; auger; diamond
- to go in
- to wear down; to sap; to whittle away; to while away; to idle away
- a pile of old books
- unable to say