- pure; clean and honest; to purify
- original; former; originally; formerly; at first; so, actually, as it turns out
- father's mother; paternal grandmother
- father's father's father; paternal great-grandfather
- 林 Lín: 林 Lin2: surname Lin; Japanese surname Hayashi林 lín: 林 lin2: (bound form) woods; forest; (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people); (bound form) a collection (of similar things)
- female servant; maid
- illegitimate daughter
- to go to the bottom of a matter; after all; when all is said and done; (in an interrogative sentence) finally; outcome; result
- palm; palm fiber; coir (coconut fiber); brown
- to permit; to allow
- not to mention; leaving aside
- thorny (problem); intractable
- from beginning to end; all along
- (idiom) pending a decision; hanging in the balance
- it seems; seemingly; as if
- not to care
- to get rid of; to exclude; to eliminate; to remove; to delete; to strip out; to extract
- family name
- to discard; to abandon
- straight (in a straight line); continuously; always; all the way through
- an era; an age; a generation
- historian
- to discuss sth enthusiastically
- subject (of a talk or conversation); topic
- to argue; to debate; to contend; argument; contention; controversy; debate; CL:次[ci4],場|场[chang3]
- (lit. and fig.) focal point; focus
- 落 là: 落 la4: to leave out; to be missing; to leave behind or forget to bring; to lag or fall behind落 lào: 落 lao4: colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds落 lùo: 落 luo4: to fall or drop; (of the sun) to set; (of a tide) to go out; to lower; to decline or sink; to lag or fall behind; to fall onto; to rest with; to get or receive; to write down; whereabouts; settlement
- in the end; finally; as a result
- to guess; to conjecture; to surmise
- someone; people; anyone; there is someone there; occupied (as in restroom)
- female; woman; daughter
- surely; certainly; definitely; fixed; settled; a certain ...; a given ...
- only; merely; no more than; but; however; anyway (to get back to a previous topic); cannot be more (after adjectival)
- to be certain; to be positive; assuredly; definitely; to give recognition; to affirm; affirmative (answer)
- document; file; CL:份[fen4]
- 提 dī: 提 di1: used in 提防[di1 fang5] and 提溜[di1 liu5]提 tí: 提 ti2: to carry (hanging down from the hand); to lift; to put forward; to mention; to raise (an issue); upwards character stroke; lifting brush stroke (in painting); scoop for measuring liquid
- born out of wedlock; illegitimate
- girl; lass
- birthday; CL:個|个[ge4]
- father; also pr. [fu4 qin5]; CL:個|个[ge4]