- man of sixty or seventy
- (bound form) grandmother; (bound form) matron; (bound form) mother-in-law; (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship)
- to expose; to reveal
- to have a rest; to stay for the night; to go to bed; to sleep
- to go straight to; to make a beeline for
- where?; wherever; anywhere; somewhere; (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...?
- a relative (i.e. family relation); CL:門|门[men2],個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- see 二話不說|二话不说[er4 hua4 bu4 shuo1]
- to state; to declare; statement; declaration; CL:項|项[xiang4],份[fen4]
- letter; epistle
- tears of blood (symbol of extreme suffering); blood and tears
- righteous indignation; moral indignation
- words and sentences
- behind; at the back; in the rear; behind sb's back
- heavy load; heavy burden
- to constrain or repress emotions; oppressive; stifling; depressing; repression
- not need; have no use for
- to go for a walk around; fig. to speak in a roundabout way
- open and candid (idiom); straightforward and upright
- master of the house; head of the family
- to undertake; to assume (responsibility etc)
- mother (as a social role)
- superfluous; cumbersome; a burden on sb; a nuisance to sb; to inconvenience; to tie sb down; long-winded (of writing); also pr. [lei2 zhui5]
- to interpret; to comment and explain; to annotate; to perform (i.e. interpret a theatrical role); to decode; interpretation; annotation
- to collide; collision
- (flaming) torch; CL:把[ba3]
- to sublimate; sublimation (physics); to raise to a higher level; to refine; promotion
- to practice Chan Buddhist meditation; to practice Zen meditation; to sit in meditation
- hot summer; scorching summer
- cicada
- mound; tomb; hill; mountain