- higher education
- to check; to contain; to hold back; to keep within limits; to constrain; to restrain
- to offer; to present; to dedicate; to donate; to show; to put on display; worthy person (old)
- poem; poetic works
- poetic essay; taxation; to bestow on; to endow with
- (historical) comic entertainer; court entertainer
- emperor's favorite courtier
- nevertheless; although
- to climb (of climbing plants); to creep; to cling on to; fig. to seek connection (with the rich and powerful); social climbing
- government; official (approved or issued by an authority)
- lit. seeming neither close nor distant (idiom); fig. to keep one's distance; (of a relationship) lukewarm; vague
- to give up; to part with
- to curry favor (idiom); playing up to those in power; social climbing
- fine; meticulous; careful
- stupid; clumsy
- 仆 pū: 仆 pu1: to fall forward; to fall prostrate仆 pú: 仆 pu2: servant
- to keep (an animal); to look after the needs of (a person or an animal); (fig.) to keep (a spy, lackey etc) in one's pay
- flame; inflammation; -itis
- (used before 不少[bu4 shao3] or 不多[bu4 duo1]) in terms of quantity; (before a number) numbering; amounting to
- few; scant; widowed
- to beat the gong to open a performance
- to pose as; to flaunt oneself as; to boast of; to brag
- to join in the fun; to get in on the action; (fig.) to butt in; to create more trouble
- to paint; to whitewash; to decorate; plaster; fig. to gloss over; to cover up
- official price
- foreign (currency) exchange
- debt of gratitude
- to advance or retreat; knowing when to come and when to leave; a sense of propriety
- 峙 zhì: 峙 zhi4: (literary) to tower aloft峙 shì: 峙 shi4: used in 繁峙[Fan2 shi4] (the name of a place in Shanxi)