- one's employment; business; matter that needs to be settled; (northern dialect) (of a person) demanding; trying; troublesome; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- sisters; siblings; sister (school, city etc)
- next day; the morrow
- (coll.) father; dad; CL:位[wei4]
- to plea for leniency; to ask for a favor
- mistaken; false; wrong; error; mistake; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to be away for the summer holidays; to spend a holiday at a summer resort; to prevent sunstroke
- degree; extent; allotted share
- funeral arrangements
- (idiom) people coming and going; bustling with activity
- courtyard; garden; yard; patio; CL:個|个[ge4]; (old) servant
- 大门 dà mén: 大门 da4 men2: entrance; door; gate; large and influential family大门 Dà mén: 大门 Da4 men2: the Doors, US rock band
- thick; deep or profound; kind; generous; rich or strong in flavor; to favor; to stress
- 关 guān: 关 guan1: mountain pass; to close; to shut; to turn off; to confine; to lock (sb) up; to shut (sb in a room, a bird in a cage etc); to concern; to involve关 Guān: 关 Guan1: surname Guan
- troublesome; to take a lot of trouble to do sth
- to stand as a goalkeeper; to keep guard on a gate
- suddenly; all of a sudden
- 倒 dǎo: 倒 dao3: to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow; to change (trains or buses); to move around; to resell at a profit倒 dào: 倒 dao4: to invert; to place upside down or frontside back; to pour out; to tip out; to dump; inverted; upside down; reversed; to go backward; contrary to what one might expect; but; yet
- to be terrified; to terrify sb
- 奔 bēn: 奔 ben1: to hurry; to rush; to run quickly; to elope奔 bèn: 奔 ben4: to go to; to head for; towards; Taiwan pr. [ben1]
- to crush to death
- elderly lady (respectful); esteemed mother; CL:位[wei4]
- to bless and protect; blessing
- chest; heart; mind
- prominent; outstanding; to give prominence to; to protrude; to project
- to develop simultaneously; to undertake concurrently
- justly; impartially
- as the time draws near; at the last moment; temporary; interim; ad hoc
- mainstay; pillar; prop; backbone
- internal disorder; civil strife; civil unrest
- to cultivate; to breed; to foster; to nurture; to educate; to groom (for a position); education; fostering; culture (biology)
- to make sth of oneself; to become a person who is worthy of respect; (of a tree) to grow to full size; to become useful for timber
- to make sth of oneself; to become a person who is worthy of respect
- foresight; discernment; vision
- to prevail over; to defeat; to surmount
- affection; family love; love, esp. within a married couple or between parents and children
- prosperous; thriving; to prosper; to flourish
- crucial point; crux; CL:個|个[ge4]; key; crucial; pivotal
- to confine; to imprison; prohibition; shackles; fetters
- to bloom; to open; to be open (to the public); to open up (to the outside); to be open-minded; unrestrained by convention; unconstrained in one's sexuality