- (idiom) great intelligence may appear to be stupidity
- ordinary people; commoner (contrasted with the privileged); civilian (contrasted with the military)
- to do harm to; to cause trouble to; harm; evil; calamity
- to cast or found metals
- wedding; marriage; CL:門|门[men2],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- bureaucrat; bureaucracy; bureaucratic
- to employ; to appoint; (bound form) to betroth; (coll.) (of a woman) to get married; to be marrried off; (literary) to visit another state as an envoy on a diplomatic mission; Taiwan pr. [ping4]
- always (previously)
- the whole family
- to pay attention to; to care about; to attach importance to
- honest and considerate
- honest; uncorrupted
- to rear; to bring up; to nurture
- to be a guest or visitor
- to exchange; to swap; to switch (telecom); commutative (math); to commute
- to bother about; to haggle; to bicker; to argue; plan; stratagem
- to regard as important; to value
- (idiom) still a child at heart; to retain a playful spirit
- (bound form) grandmother; (bound form) matron; (bound form) mother-in-law; (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship)
- to be unable to tolerate or endure; to find sth difficult to manage
- peaceful relations; harmonious
- disharmony; to become estranged
- inside; within
- to heed; to pay attention to
- to consider; to weigh (a matter); to balance (pros and cons)
- under; beneath; less than
- to be a newcomer; just off the boat
- to be a stranger in a strange land (idiom); in an unfamiliar place without friends or family
- to cover densely
- capital of a country (literary)
- a relative (i.e. family relation); CL:門|门[men2],個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- born of a concubine (rather than of the wife)
- born of the wife (i.e. not of a concubine)
- to suffer losses; to come to grief; to lose out; to get the worst of it; to be at a disadvantage; unfortunately
- to say again; to put off a discussion until later; moreover; what's more; besides
- how? (emphatic question)