- to throw off; to struggle free of; Taiwan pr. [zheng1 tuo1]
- to mistreat; to maltreat; to abuse; mistreatment; maltreatment
- hackneyed; well-worn (phrase etc); same old story; stereotypical fashion
- comical; funny; amusing (old pr. [gu3 ji1]); huaji, a form of comedy performance popular in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang
- to focus (light, electron beam etc); to focus attention
- Isaac (name)
- Hull (name); Kingston upon Hull
- (coll.) wife's younger sister; sister-in-law (term not used to directly address her)
- skin
- often; frequently
- trustworthy
- (idiom) there will be no end of trouble in the future
- to involve; implicated
- anecdote; lost or apocryphal story about famous person
- why
- resentment; grudge
- 假 gēi: 假 gei1: used in 假掰[gei1 bai1]假 jiǎ: 假 jia3: fake; false; artificial; to borrow; if; suppose假 jià: 假 jia4: vacation假 jiǎ: 假 jia3: to borrow
- to weaken; to go soft (at the knees)
- cock fighting
- to fly into a rage; to rage violently
- (of an illness) to occur; (of a person) to get sick; to fall ill; onset (of a medical condition)
- to fall to the ground
- to trample on
- slight; faint; humble
- 翘 qiào: 翘 qiao4: to stick up; to rise on one end; to tilt翘 qiáo: 翘 qiao2: outstanding; to raise
- spacious; wide; lenient
- expressive power
- prominent; outstanding; to give prominence to; to protrude; to project
- maneuver; scheme
- First Lady (wife of the head of state)
- (idiom) evenly matched
- (of lovers) to meet in secret; to have a clandestine rendezvous
- to originate; origin; genesis; account of the origins of an endeavor
- to be infertile; to have no offspring
- real (people); living (artist); while still alive (e.g. skinned alive)
- one's own wishful thinking