- to exchange toasts
- turbid; muddy; impure
- thirsty
- to hone (a knife)
- to sob; to whimper
- edge of blade
- vegetation; plants
- fishy (smell)
- approaching old age
- alas; alack; welladay; wellaway; to die
- hatchet
- 柯 Kē: 柯 Ke1: surname Ke柯 kē: 柯 ke1: (literary) branch; stem; stalk; (literary) ax handle
- to burn incense
- silent prayer; pray in silence
- 祝 Zhù: 祝 Zhu4: surname Zhu祝 zhù: 祝 zhu4: to pray for; to wish (sb bon voyage, happy birthday etc); person who invokes the spirits during sacrificial ceremonies
- particular abilities; one's forte
- survivor
- deep in the mountains
- to migrate; to move house
- to lie prostrate; to prostrate oneself (in veneration)
- to spur on; to urge on; to encourage sb (e.g. to make progress)
- lit. the service of a dog or a horse (idiom); fig. faithful service
- to take office; to assume a post
- (of people) to be incompatible; to not get along; to be unable to see eye to eye
- what one has learned (through experience, reading etc); knowledge; insight; understanding; tips; CL:項|项[xiang4],個|个[ge4]
- to write on behalf of sb; to ghostwrite
- between the words and the lines (idiom); implied meaning; connotations
- beginning student
- old verse; Classical Chinese poem
- to call oneself; to claim to be; to profess; to claim a title
- the world; this world; the world of the living