- gift; present; CL:件[jian4],份[fen4]
- (coll.) mud
- (coll.) to end in failure; to come to grief; to bite the dust
- 洗 xiǎn: 洗 xian3: used in 洗馬|洗马[xian3 ma3]洗 xǐ: 洗 xi3: to wash; to bathe; to develop (photographs); to shuffle (cards etc); to erase (a recording)
- to notice; to become aware of; to discover; to find; to detect; a discovery
- not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing
- to seek; to look for
- to lose (sth); to drop (sth); to feel a sense of loss; frustrated; disappointment; loss
- to doubt (sth); to be skeptical of; to have one's doubts; to harbor suspicions; to suspect that
- to lose; to put aside; to throw
- to get angry; to be furious; vitality; liveliness
- to get promoted (at work etc); promotion
- loud and clear; resonant
- eloquence
- age; CL:把[ba3],個|个[ge4]
- to close (a door); to turn off (light, electrical equipment etc)
- to crawl; to climb; to get up or sit up
- to sing; to call loudly; to chant
- the empty city stratagem (in which Zhuge Liang presents himself as unperturbed while making it evident that his city is undefended, hoping his adversary will suspect an ambush); double bluff
- older female cousin through a female relative
- father; dad; pa; papa
- generous gifts
- to run into; to come upon; to meet
- dark green
- jadeite; tree kingfisher
- brooch
- invaluable; priceless
- the strokes of a character; calligraphy and painting
- half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half
- ancient book; old book
- bookcase
- to tie up
- copper (chemistry); see also 紅銅|红铜[hong2 tong2]; CL:塊|块[kuai4]
- lightly; softly
- the Twenty-Four Histories (25 or 26 in modern editions), collection of books on Chinese dynastic history from 3000 BC till 17th century; fig. a long and complicated story
- to publish; to issue; to release; to distribute
- old, well-known brand; old style; old school; an old hand; experienced veteran