- cement; CL:袋[dai4]
- lit. ten thousand mile horse; fine steed
- 匹 pǐ: 匹 pi3: (bound form) matching; comparable to; (bound form) alone; single; one of a pair; classifier for horses, mules etc (Taiwan pr. [pi1]); classifier for cloth: bolt; horsepower匹 pǐ: 匹 pi3: classifier for cloth: bolt
- to cry out; to bark out a sound
- humble; lowly; depraved; contemptible
- bitter work; hard toil; (loanword) coolie, unskilled Chinese laborer in colonial times
- private school (in former times)
- brocade sack of miracle plans (idiom); bag of tricks; fiendishly cunning masterplan (written out by strategic genius of fiction, and given to the local commander in a brocade bag)
- mixed in as part of a community; hiding one's identity; occupying a position while not deserving it
- absurd; strange; (interj.) curse it!; to hell with it!
- folk songs of the state of Chu 楚國|楚国[Chu3 guo2]; popular art forms (contrasted with 陽春白雪|阳春白雪[yang2 chun1 bai2 xue3], highbrow art forms)
- raw silk; white; plain, unadorned; vegetarian (food); essence; nature; element; constituent; usually; always; ever
- (it's) no wonder (that...); (it's) not surprising (that)
- lord; nobility; nobleman; noblewoman; aristocrat; aristocracy
- uninhibited; free and unconstrained; rhythmical
- full of (zeal, anger etc)
- dust
- past events; former happenings
- to appear; to emerge; to surface
- slope; incline
- to reduce the pace (of movements, steps etc)
- chance; opportunity; destiny
- hilltop
- Daoist temple
- kasaya (robe of a Buddhist monk or nun) (loanword from Sanskrit)
- (idiom) every word is a gem
- to go down a hill; (of the sun or moon) to set
- 崴 wēi: 崴 wei1: high, lofty; precipitous崴 wǎi: 崴 wai3: to sprain (one's ankle); see 崴子[wai3 zi5]
- completely
- to die; to lose; to be gone; to flee; deceased
- goodbye; see you again later
- incense burning in front of a temple; burning joss sticks
- to conceal from; to keep (sb) in the dark
- lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom); fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience; to cast pearls before swine; caviar to the general; to preach to deaf ears; to talk over sb's head
- dirty; filthy; foul; corrupt; to smear; to defile; dirt; filth
- to show respect for; to think highly of
- guild; professional or trade association
- to be indebted (to sb)
- convenient; suitable; to facilitate; to make things easy; having money to spare; (euphemism) to relieve oneself