- to grow (prettier etc); to mature into; to blossom
- really; truly; indeed; real; true; genuine
- to press; to push; to leave aside or shelve; to control; to restrain; to keep one's hand on; to check or refer to; according to; in the light of; (of an editor or author) to make a comment
- 错 Cùo: 错 Cuo4: surname Cuo错 cùo: 错 cuo4: mistake; wrong; bad; interlocking; complex; to grind; to polish; to alternate; to stagger; to miss; to let slip; to evade; to inlay with gold or silver
- to belong to; to fall under (a category)
- to give rise to; to lead to; to cause; to arouse
- repercussions; reaction; echo
- critic; reviewer
- pale and feeble; powerless
- to emphasize (a statement); to stress
- rhetoric
- careless; negligent; sloppy; not serious
- to be born of; to come from; family background; class origin
- unwritten (rule)
- unwell; indisposed; out of sorts
- to use in; to use on; to use for
- fame and power; prestige; influence; impetus; momentum
- eyeball; (fig.) attention
- to cough; CL:陣|阵[zhen4]
- to spit; to expectorate
- 老子 lǎo zi: 老子 lao3 zi5: father; daddy; "I, your father" (in anger, or out of contempt); I (used arrogantly or jocularly)老子 Lǎo zǐ: 老子 Lao3 zi3: Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism; the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經|道德经[Dao4 de2 jing1] by Laozi
- to live; alive; living; work; workmanship
- Toktoghan (1314-1355), Mongol politician during the Yuan dynasty, prime minister until 1345, compiled three dynastic histories of Song 宋史, Liao 遼史|辽史 and Jin 金史; also written Tuoketuo 托克托
- the same; of the same type
- to reveal; to display; to show; to exhibit
- sad; sadness; sorrow; grief
- 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)
- (one's) inner world
- sense; sense organ
- to provoke; to irritate; to upset; to stimulate; to excite; irritant
- conforming with the norms of society
- to do everything one can; to spare no effort; to strive
- upward; up; to advance; to try to improve oneself; to make progress
- just the opposite
- wart; (fig.) superfluous thing
- dirty; filthy; vile; despicable; (literary) narrow-minded; petty
- used in 齷齪|龌龊[wo4 chuo4]
- to distribute; to emit; to give off
- style
- even more (so)
- 通 tōng: 通 tong1: to go through; to know well; (suffix) expert; to connect; to communicate; open; to clear; classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc通 tòng: 通 tong4: classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)
- to pierce through; to pass through; to be stringed together; string of 1000 cash
- entire book; unabridged book
- lack; shortage of; shortfall; to be short (of); to lack