- propitious wind throughout the journey (idiom); plain sailing; to go smoothly; have a nice trip!
- a pool of stagnant water; stagnant or listless condition
- 浅 jiān: 浅 jian1: sound of moving water浅 qiǎn: 浅 qian3: shallow; light (color)
- to remain; to be left; to have as remainder
- Lake Michigan, one of the Great Lakes 五大湖[Wu3 da4 hu2]
- freshwater lake
- vernacular name; lay name (of a priest)
- Chinese cabbage, esp. napa cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis); sometimes used to refer to bok choy (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis); CL:棵[ke1]
- lotus flower (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn, among others); water-lily
- or; either one or the other
- lotus
- species
- (botany) (of a plant) perennial
- herbaceous plant
- community; (science) biocoenosis; ecological community
- to develop; to mature; growth; development; (sexually) mature
- succession (of changes in an ecological community); naturally evolving sequence
- unremarkable; nothing out of the ordinary
- grassland; prairie; CL:片[pian4]
- comfortable niche
- to go straight to; to make a beeline for
- to change; to alter; to transform; to correct
- untold dangers and difficulties (idiom)
- depression; low-lying area; low-lying; sunken
- (idiom) boundless; limitless
- to be on foot
- to fill up
- to bear (an expense, a responsibility etc); burden
- to perplex; to disturb; to cause complications
- to reduce the pace (of movements, steps etc)
- to build (esp. with simple materials); to knock together (a temporary shed); to rig up
- to leave; to abandon
- lit. to follow the recipe (idiom); fig. to follow a set pattern
- to destroy; to smash; sabotage