- if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway
- family background
- can bow and submit, or can stand tall (idiom, from Book of Changes); ready to give and take; flexible
- to bid farewell; tricks of the trade; pithy mnemonic formula (e.g. Mao Zedong's 16-character mantra 十六字訣|十六字诀 on guerrilla warfare)
- promoter; advocate; driving force; pushing hands (two-person training routine esp. in t'ai chi)
- to work for a living
- lit. to exchange weapons of war for gifts of jade and silk (idiom); fig. to turn hostility into friendship
- heart; mind; ambition; aspiration
- to withdraw; to leave; to retreat; to pull out
- unreconciled to; not resigned to; unwilling
- to make progress; progress
- one-off (offer); one-time; single-use; disposable (goods)
- to settle accounts; to clear accounts; to liquidate; to expose and criticize
- 郭 Gūo: 郭 Guo1: surname Guo郭 gūo: 郭 guo1: outer city wall
- to exhort; to make an effort
- (to play) one's part; one's role; one's duty; (to stay within) one's bounds; dutiful; keeping to one's role
- to enter monastic life; to become a monk or nun
- Buddhist monk
- in recent years
- Buddhism
- 名山 Míng shān: 名山 Ming2 shan1: see 名山區|名山区[Ming2 shan1 Qu1]名山 míng shān: 名山 ming2 shan1: famous mountain
- human rights
- to comfort oneself; to console oneself; to reassure oneself
- where it is possible to let people off, one should spare them (idiom); anyone can make mistakes, forgive them when possible
- the end; an ending; to wind down; to conclude
- file; record; archive
- future (career etc) prospects
- to hold; to grasp; to support; to maintain; to persevere; to manage; to run (i.e. administer); to control
- (coll.) mother; mom; (literary) elderly mother
- narrow-minded; petty
- to be awfully (busy etc)
- to take seriously; serious; No joking, really!
- fry (newly hatched fish); legendary giant fish that could transform into a giant bird 鵬|鹏[Peng2]