- to play fast and loose with the law; to game the system; (leisure) rules of the game; way of doing an activity; (tourism) way of experiencing a place
- to spread; to circulate; to hand down
- (coll.) old fellow; old codger
- old friend; former acquaintance
- to live in seclusion
- marketplace; town; the street (urban milieu); the haunts of the common people
- 元勋 yuán xūn: 元勋 yuan2 xun1: leading light; founding father; principal proponent; also written 元勳|元勋元勋 yuán xūn: 元勋 yuan2 xun1: leading light; founding father; principal proponent
- to catch; to seize; to capture
- craftmanship; workmanship; handicraft; trade
- to focus; to concentrate; to give one's full attention
- insignificant soldier (idiom); a nobody; nonentity
- (to look) with a direct gaze; (fig.) respect; favor
- to add up (numbers); (fig.) to put together (several things of the same type, e.g. skills)
- to pay a formal visit; to call to pay respects; to meet one's senior or superior
- to put on airs; to assume great airs
- to exert; to strive
- to pout; to stick out one's lips
- to disregard; to leave aside
- 燕 Yān: 燕 Yan1: Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning; north Hebei; the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕[Qian2 Yan1] (337–370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕[Hou4 Yan1] (384–409), Southern Yan 南燕[Nan2 Yan1] (398–410), Northern Yan 北燕[Bei3 Yan1] (409–436); surname Yan燕 yàn: 燕 yan4: swallow (family Hirundinidae)
- purple; violet (color)
- back (of a human or other vertebrate)
- swallow
- 尾 wěi: 尾 wei3: tail; remainder; remnant; extremity; sixth of the 28 constellations; classifier for fish尾 yǐ: 尾 yi3: horse's tail; pointed posterior section of a locust etc
- to weigh in the hand; to estimate
- 朱砂 zhū shā: 朱砂 zhu1 sha1: cinnabar; mercuric sulfide HgS; also written 硃砂|朱砂[zhu1 sha1]朱砂 zhū shā: 朱砂 zhu1 sha1: cinnabar; mercuric sulfide HgS
- purple; violet
- to put up; to build (scaffolding); to hang (clothes on a pole); to connect; to join; to arrange in pairs; to match; to add; to throw in (resources); to take (boat, train)
- scissors; CL:把[ba3]
- to know
- unbearable; unable to endure; can't stand
- light; gentle; relaxed; effortless; uncomplicated; to relax; to take things less seriously
- ancestor; forebear
- spiritual influence (of mountains etc); cleverness; ingeniousness
- to allow to fly
- heat control; (fig.) mastery; (fig.) crucial moment
- about to; on the point of; soon
- (onom.) he he; mischievous laughter