- to let pass
- concubine; mistress; (dialect) woman
- to admire; to praise; to eulogize
- peerless; unmatched in his generation; incomparable (talent, beauty)
- to follow; to follow up
- interior decor
- vehicle owner
- funny news item; interesting anecdote
- Polo (car made by Volkswagen); surname Polo
- famous; noted; well-known; celebrated
- (used in names); (bound form) (literary) bright; prosperous; splendid; genial
- residence; mansion
- lane; alley
- to indicate
- 世 Shì: 世 Shi4: surname Shi世 shì: 世 shi4: life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime; epoch; descendant; noble
- villa
- umber-black dye for painting the eyebrow
- roof tile; abbr. for 瓦特[wa3 te4]
- to welcome a guest; to entertain a customer (of prostitute)
- deputy director; assistant manager
- appropriate to the occasion; fitting
- to wait; to inquire after; to watch; season; climate; (old) period of five days
- lit. to pile up (bricks); to pack; fig. to pad out (writing with fancy phrases); ornate rhetoric
- to separate
- central axis (line)
- 古 Gǔ: 古 Gu3: surname Gu古 gǔ: 古 gu3: ancient; old; paleo-
- stage
- tune; melody
- see 崑曲|昆曲[Kun1 qu3]
- Jiangsu Province, capital Nanjing 南京市[Nan2 jing1 Shi4] (short name 蘇|苏[Su1])
- theater; CL:家[jia1],座[zuo4]
- to receive; to entertain; to host (guests, visitors or clients)
- (derog.) opera singer; actor
- bald (lacking hair or feathers); barren; bare; denuded; blunt (lacking a point); (of a piece of writing) unsatisfactory; lacking something
- to sit down; to take a seat
- to attend an opera; to see an opera
- The Peony Pavilion (1598), play by Tang Xianzu 湯顯祖|汤显祖[Tang1 Xian3 zu3]
- to awaken from a dream