- to deposit; to store; to leave in sb's care
- central; middle; center; central authorities (of a state)
- to shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc); (medicine) to metastasize
- to think; to believe (often with the implication that the belief is mistaken – unless referring to one's own current belief)
- a mute; mute; silent
- matter; thing; item; work; affair; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1],回[hui2]
- to have the final say; to be the one in charge
- to arrest; to capture; to seize; to win (a set, a game etc)
- tobacco (smoked in a long-stemmed pipe)
- smoking pipe
- to take along with one
- tobacco
- to swell; to bulge
- 世故 shì gù: 世故 shi4 gu4: the ways of the world世故 shì gu: 世故 shi4 gu5: sophisticated; worldly-wise
- misconception; illusion; misperception
- educational background; academic qualifications
- to draw out; to pull out from in between; to remove part of the whole; to inhale (esp. smoke); (of fabric etc) to shrink; (of certain plants) to sprout; to bud; to whip; to thrash; classifier for sheets (of tissues, wet wipes etc)
- old; aged; (of calligraphy or painting) vigorous; forceful
- to match up; to coincide
- to not say a word (idiom)
- one's life experience; one's lot; one's past history
- erudition; scholarly knowledge
- to differ
- incessantly; without end; more than; not limited to
- light-years (apart); a million miles (apart); (i.e. indicates a huge difference or a huge distance)
- male-female; male and female
- layman; amateur
- can't afford to offend; dare not provoke; difficult to deal with; insufferable
- dialectal equivalent of 為什麼|为什么[wei4 shen2 me5]
- to bite; to nip
- elder brother
- docile; meek
- kitten
- to expel; to oust; (dialect) to chase after; to try to catch up with
- ruthless; fierce; ferocious; determined; resolute; to harden (one's heart)
- violent; fierce and tough; shrewish (woman)
- thirty; 30
- to bear (give birth)