- 面 miàn: 面 mian4: face; side; surface; aspect; top; classifier for objects with flat surfaces such as drums, mirrors, flags etc面 miàn: 面 mian4: flour; noodles; (of food) soft (not crunchy); (slang) (of a person) ineffectual; spineless
- expressionless; wooden (expression); blank (face)
- appearance; manner; pattern; model
- World War II
- jungle; thicket; forest; Buddhist monastery
- (idiom) carefree; without worries
- early youth; youngster; (literary) youth; young man
- every day
- 玩 wán: 玩 wan2: to play; to have fun; to trifle with; toy; sth used for amusement; curio or antique (Taiwan pr. [wan4]); to keep sth for entertainment玩 wán: 玩 wan2: Taiwan pr. [wan4]
- cricket (ball game)
- soccer; football; a soccer ball; a football
- occasionally; once in a while; sometimes
- to help; to do a favor; (Shanghainese) Come on!; Give me a break!
- to appear; to emerge; to present (a certain appearance); to demonstrate
- nevertheless; actually; the fact is ...
- difficult; hard; arduous
- to keep; to maintain; to preserve
- livelihood
- 家 jiā: 家 jia1: used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1 huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1 ju4]家 jiā: 家 jia1: home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian; CL:個|个[ge4]
- in total; altogether
- father's father; paternal grandfather
- brothers and sisters; siblings
- forward; onward
- lit. to go upstream; to trace sth back to; to date from
- Five Dynasties, period of history between the fall of the Tang dynasty (907) and the founding of the Song dynasty (960), when five would-be dynasties were established in quick succession in North China
- to exile; to banish; to deport; to float (logs) downstream
- ancestors; forefathers; ancestry
- ancestors; forebears; (biology) ancestral species; ancient species from which present-day species evolved
- Thomas (male name)
- Luther (name); Martin Luther (1483-1546), reformation protestant minister
- convict; prisoner; criminal
- to follow
- fleet; CL:支[zhi1]
- to land; to come ashore; to make landfall (of typhoon etc)
- it is said that; reportedly
- to steal; to pilfer; to snatch; thief; stealthily
- shoe
- to complete a prison sentence
- relying on; on the basis of
- governor-general; viceroy; governor
- to press; to push; to leave aside or shelve; to control; to restrain; to keep one's hand on; to check or refer to; according to; in the light of; (of an editor or author) to make a comment
- convention; usual practice
- to distribute; to assign; to allocate; to partition (a hard drive)
- farmland; cultivated land
- colony
- so much; this much; how much?; this way; like this