- overseas; abroad
- high-sounding speech; bombast; high-profile
- to grin; also pr. [lou4 chi3]
- (of a groom) to fetch one's bride from her parents' home to escort her to the wedding ceremony; (fig.) to take as one's wife; to marry (a woman)
- excellent quality
- for a long time; long since; (dialect) in the past
- (physics) vacuum; (fig.) vacuum; (slang) to not wear underwear
- to fill a gap; to fill in a blank (on a form); to overcome a deficiency
- long sleeves help one dance beautifully (idiom); money and power will help you in any occupation
- to support; to brace
- lit. to strike water right and left (idiom); fig. to turn everything into gold; to have everything going one's way; to benefit from both sides
- terrible mess; shambles
- calm; composed; at ease
- 楚 Chǔ: 楚 Chu3: surname Chu; abbr. for Hubei 湖北省[Hu2 bei3 Sheng3] and Hunan 湖南省[Hu2 nan2 Sheng3] provinces together; Chinese kingdom during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (722–221 BC)楚 chǔ: 楚 chu3: distinct; clear; orderly; pain; suffering; deciduous bush used in Chinese medicine (genus Vitex); punishment cane (old)
- dense (of trees); thick; ghastly; eerie
- insignificant
- steamed in broth
- crab meat
- large meatball ("lion's head")
- specialty (dish)
- as usual
- river snail
- biluochun or pi lo chun, a type of green tea grown in the Dongting Mountain region near Lake Tai 太湖[Tai4 Hu2], Jiangsu
- shrimp meat; shelled shrimp
- nimble
- pet name for a child; childhood name
- country or countryside; native place; home village or town; township (PRC administrative unit)
- to deploy; to allocate; configuration; allocation
- to not conform to; to be unsuited to; to be out of keeping with; should not; ought out
- Maybach, German car brand
- flexible; to accommodate; to stretch or get around regulations; a short-term loan
- snob
- bill
- addition
- amount; number