- to be well matched; to suit
- talent; talented person; looks; attractive looks
- at top speed; at a tremendous lick
- Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation; idiom; proverb; saying; adage; CL:條|条[tiao2],本[ben3],句[ju4]
- 勾 gōu: 勾 gou1: to attract; to arouse; to tick; to strike out; to delineate; to collude勾 gòu: 勾 gou4: used in 勾當|勾当[gou4 dang4]勾 Gōu: 勾 Gou1: surname Gou
- to laugh heartily; to burst into loud laughter
- (idiom) to split one's sides laughing
- arc
- crescent moon
- Xuanzang (602-664) Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and translator, who traveled to India 629-645
- to journey to India on a quest for the Buddhist scriptures; to learn by studying another's experience
- long life
- must; have to; be bound to
- lit. to pass over mountain ridges (idiom); fig. hardships of the journey
- lit. to cross five passes and slay six generals (idiom); fig. to surmount all difficulties (on the way to success)
- to subdue; to vanquish; to tame
- external; outside; outward appearance
- Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara)
- the inside
- White Bone Spirit (in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 you2 Ji4]); (fig.) sly and cunning person
- karma; cause and effect
- miserable; wretched; cruel; inhuman; disastrous; tragic; dim; gloomy
- divine light (around the Buddha); a halo; a miraculous column of light; (slang) jolly good!
- to appear suddenly
- a move; an action; in one move; at a stroke; in one go
- to capture
- to play go, chess etc
- somewhat; a little; slightly
- mood; spirits; interest
- both principal and interest; capital plus profit
- practiced; proficient; skilled; skillful
- words; speech; to say; to talk
- chess player
- to burn both jade and common stone; to destroy indiscriminately (idiom)