- public housing; dormitory, esp. for unmarried people
- sweet; (fig.) pleasant; endearing; lovely
- reaction; reactionary
- spy
- to have one's head shaved
- platform; podium; rostrum; lectern; (teacher's) desk
- on one's desk
- to survive (a disaster)
- low; humble; plain; ugly; mean; vulgar
- lit. look into one's heart, no shame (idiom); with a clear conscience
- ashamed
- half a lifetime
- suffering; misery; hardship
- wan and sallow; thin and pallid; haggard; (of plants) withered
- theatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc); dramatic (change, increase etc); acute; severe
- muddle-headed; twilight; to faint; to lose consciousness
- scholar; intellectual; egghead
- frustrated; perplexed; irresolute; dazed
- to monopolize; to seize; to take into one's arms; to embrace; to fasten (with a rope etc); to take on (responsibility etc); to canvass
- to pity
- to try to cover up in an embarrassing situation; to justify oneself; to find excuses
- thatched house; poor person's house; humble home
- whole; full
- toilet; lavatory; CL:間|间[jian1],處|处[chu4]
- to live in seclusion
- name of a book; reputation as calligrapher
- to deprive; to expropriate; to strip (sb of his property)
- right (i.e. an entitlement to sth); (classical) power and wealth
- to collapse (of building, dam or bridge)
- value; worth; (ethical, cultural etc) values
- honor and glory; glorious
- worker; laborer
- young lady of the house; wife of the young master
- to live like a prince (idiom)