- very early in the morning; in the wee hours
- the four seasons, namely: spring 春[chun1], summer 夏[xia4], autumn 秋[qiu1] and winter 冬[dong1]
- to rush to; to hurry to
- to wait for; to expect; to keep watch; to watch over; to nurse
- to be alarmed; to be frightened
- to obliterate; to erase
- to jump; to leap; to bound; to skip
- (of objects) to fall; to drop; to droop; (medicine) to experience tenesmus
- (idiom) covered all over with cuts and bruises; beaten black and blue
- to fall apart; exhaustion
- to splash
- to bury a corpse; to be buried; (fig.) to die (at sea, in a fire etc)
- as the proverb says; as they say...
- to come one after the other
- to fall; to sink; (fig.) to degenerate
- to cherish
- to shed tears
- miserable; wretched; cruel; inhuman; disastrous; tragic; dim; gloomy
- crazy; mad; madly
- stone roller; roller and millstone; to grind; to crush; to husk
- (idiom) badly mangled or mutilated; gruesome
- pool of blood
- to load into; to record; to write into; to enter (data); to go into (the records); to go down (in history)
- ominous; inauspicious
- to desert; to leave; to forsake
- hubbub; clamor; to make a racket
- should; ought to
- 下场 xià chǎng: 下场 xia4 chang3: to leave (the stage, an exam room, the playing field etc); to take part in some activity; to take an examination (in the imperial examination system)下场 xià chang: 下场 xia4 chang5: the end; to conclude
- to preserve one's life; to ensure one's survival
- to put on an act
- to not say a word (idiom); to keep silent
- (idiom) shameless; despicable; devoid of integrity
- person of low social status (old); I, me (used to refer humbly to oneself); nasty person; vile character