- harsh; severe; demanding
- to request; to require; requirement; to stake a claim; to ask; to demand; CL:點|点[dian3]
- external; outside; outward appearance
- unfeeling; callous
- very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
- 难 nàn: 难 nan4: disaster; distress; to scold难 nán: 难 nan2: difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good
- (one's) inner world
- en route
- 于 Yú: 于 Yu2: surname Yu于 yú: 于 yu2: to go; to take; sentence-final interrogative particle于 yú: 于 yu2: (of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by
- 色 sè: 色 se4: color; CL:種|种[zhong3]; look; appearance; sex色 shǎi: 色 shai3: (coll.) color; used in 色子[shai3 zi5]
- to handle the situation calmly (idiom); unruffled; to treat the situation lightly
- grave and stern
- under; beneath; less than
- often; frequently
- to reveal (a quality or feeling); to manifest; to evince
- vehement; fervent; generous; magnanimous
- human warmth; friendliness; human touch
- one side; one aspect; simultaneously... (and...); one's whole face
- 大方 dà fāng: 大方 da4 fang1: expert; scholar; mother earth; a type of green tea大方 dà fang: 大方 da4 fang5: generous; magnanimous; stylish; in good taste; easy-mannered; natural and relaxed大方 Dà fāng: 大方 Da4 fang1: see 大方縣|大方县[Da4 fang1 Xian4]
- to take out; to put out; to provide; to put forward (a proposal); to come up with (evidence)
- 打 dá: 打 da2: (loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]打 dǎ: 打 da3: a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike; to fight; (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")
- whist (loanword)
- signboard; plaque; plate; tablet (CL:塊|块[kuai4]); brand; trademark; mahjong tile; domino; playing card (CL:張|张[zhang1]); (bound form) fixed pattern for lyrics or set melody in classical poetry or music (used in 詞牌|词牌[ci2 pai2] and 曲牌[qu3 pai2])
- to beat; to win; to profit
- 钱 Qián: 钱 Qian2: surname Qian钱 qián: 钱 qian2: coin; money; CL:筆|笔[bi3]; unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 兩|两[liang3]
- to present (a gift) to (sb)
- 给 gěi: 给 gei3: to; for; for the benefit of; to give; to allow; to do sth (for sb); (grammatical equivalent of 被); (grammatical equivalent of 把); (sentence intensifier)给 jǐ: 给 ji3: to supply; to provide
- pitiful; pathetic; to have pity on
- beggar
- willingly
- to sacrifice one's life; to sacrifice (sth valued); beast slaughtered as a sacrifice
- to rescue
- without hesitation; resolutely; firmly
- to renounce; to abandon; to give up
- and even; to go so far as to
- to compensate for loss; to indemnify; to suffer a financial loss
- life
- personally; in person; oneself
- to lead a team; to lead a group; group leader; (tourism) tour guide
- to rescue; to help out of difficulties; to save the situation
- to meet by chance (usually with misfortune); classifier for events: time, turn, incident
- 苏 sū: 苏 su1: used in 嚕囌|噜苏[lu1 su1]苏 sū: 苏 su1: to revive苏 Sū: 苏 Su1: surname Su; abbr. for Soviet Union 蘇維埃|苏维埃[Su1 wei2 ai1] or 蘇聯|苏联[Su1 lian2]; abbr. for Jiangsu 江蘇|江苏[Jiang1 su1]; abbr. for Suzhou 蘇州|苏州[Su1 zhou1]苏 sū: 苏 su1: Perilla frutescens (Chinese basil or wild red basil); place name; to revive; used as phonetic in transliteration
- to kidnap; to abduct; to hijack; a kidnapping; abduction; staking
- that one; that thing; that (as opposed to this); (used before a verb or adjective for emphasis); (used to humorously or indirectly refer to sth embarrassing, funny etc, or when one can't think of the right word); (used in speech as a filler, similar to "umm", "you know" etc); (euph.) menstruation; sex; also pr. [nei4 ge5]