- road; path (CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]); (bound form) way; reason; principle; (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization; (Daoism) the Way; the Dao; to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel); (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words); classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process; (old) circuit (administrative division)
- pike; lance; CL:把[ba3],柄[bing3]
- to hold; to carry (in one's arms); to hug; to embrace; to surround; to cherish; (coll.) (of clothes) to fit nicely
- at one's side; on hand
- well; carefully; nicely; properly
- to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon
- two; both; some; a few; tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty 斤[jin1] (old)
- female servant; maid
- to hold; to grasp; to clench (one's fist); (bound form) to have in one's control; classifier: a handful
- 血 xiě: 血 xie3: see 血[xue4]血 xuè: 血 xue4: blood; colloquial pr. [xie3]; CL:滴[di1],片[pian4]
- to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire); to live; to be alive; life; raw; uncooked; unprocessed; unfamiliar; strange; (bound form) student; person engaged in a field; (bound form) male role in traditional opera; (bound form) life; lifetime; (bound form) means of livelihood; (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2]); (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
- (piece of) news; information; message; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- wind; news; style; custom; manner; CL:陣|阵[zhen4],絲|丝[si1]
- everyone; influential family; great expert
- to forget
- each; every
- important; significant; major
- to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
- to forget
- lit. to hope one's son becomes a dragon (idiom); fig. to long for one' s child to succeed in life; to have great hopes for one's offspring; to give one's child the best education as a career investment
- exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if
- life (one's time on earth)
- at least; (to say the) least
- to fail to live up (to expectations); unworthy (of trust); to let down; to betray (hopes); to disappoint
- to have expectations; to earnestly hope; expectation; hope
- bodily health; one's physical state; physique
- physical strength
- 远 yuǎn: 远 yuan3: far; distant; remote; (intensifier in a comparison) by far; much (lower etc)远 yuàn: 远 yuan4: to distance oneself from (classical)
- ordinary person
- above
- pavilion (usu. two-storied); cabinet (politics); boudoir; woman's chamber; rack; shelf
- perimeter; range; (within) a radius of ...
- expression or emotion showing in one's eyes; meaningful glance; wink; eyesight (dialect)
- 火 Hǔo: 火 Huo3: surname Huo火 hǔo: 火 huo3: fire; urgent; ammunition; fiery or flaming; internal heat (Chinese medicine); hot (popular); classifier for military units (old); Kangxi radical 86
- hair (on the head)
- (bound form) general; non-specific; extensive; pan-; to flood; (literary) to float about; to be suffused with (a color, emotion, odor etc)
- red (color); revolutionary
- light; ray (CL:道[dao4]); bright; shiny; only; merely; used up; finished; to leave (a part of the body) uncovered
- time; juncture; moment; period of time; CL:個|个[ge4],段[duan4]; constantly; always
- to attract attention; eye-catching; conspicuous
- the first time; for the first time
- to come into contact with; to have dealings
- to sense; perception; to feel (through the senses); to experience; a feeling; an impression; an experience