- to serve; to wait upon
- to inform; to notify; to announce; circular; bulletin; (scientific) journal
- favor; grace
- to love dearly; to dote on (sb)
- to worry about
- to exchange; to change (clothes etc); to substitute; to switch; to convert (currency)
- to give; to deliver; to hand over
- precious
- to hand over (responsibility for sth) to (sb); to leave it to (sb else to take charge of the next stage of a process)
- to hold in safekeeping; to have in one's care; to guarantee; certainly; surely; custodian; curator
- silver money (in former times)
- expense
- palm
- to mix with others; to socialize; to deal with; to contend
- to handle (affairs); to work
- everything; every matter
- very close; no gap between them; continuously; unbroken; hard to separate; indistinguishable
- an accounts office (in former times); an accountant; a cashier
- Chinese and Western medicine; a doctor trained in Chinese and Western medicine
- kitchen
- forced labor; corvée; obligatory task; military service; to use as servant; to enserf; servant (old); war; campaign; battle
- 裁缝 cái feng: 裁缝 cai2 feng5: tailor; dressmaker裁缝 cái féng: 裁缝 cai2 feng2: to make an item of clothing; to tailor
- gardener
- 跑 pǎo: 跑 pao3: to run; to run away; to escape; to run around (on errands etc); (of a gas or liquid) to leak or evaporate; (verb complement) away; off跑 páo: 跑 pao2: (of an animal) to paw (the ground)
- see 正房[zheng4 fang2]
- mother; mom
- not to accept sth; to want to have sth overruled or changed; to refuse to obey or comply; to refuse to accept as final; to remain unconvinced by; not to give in to
- other people; others; other person
- to attract people's affection; charming; delightful
- a thorn in one's side
- (idiom) industrious and frugal
- a thorn in one's flesh
- cannot bear to see; to hate; to dislike; to disapprove
- see 家信[jia1 xin4]
- upright; regular; proper; correct
- (loanword) logic
- from within; therefrom
- to make out; to see
- not only; not just
- educated and well-balanced (idiom)
- anxious; worried; uneasy; to worry; to be anxious
- affairs of the nation; politics
- miscellaneous tasks; various chores