- flower vase; (fig.) female employee considered to be just a pretty face (attractive but not very competent)
- to insert; stick in; pierce; to take part in; to interfere; to interpose
- flower; fresh flowers; CL:朵[duo3]
- cupboard; cabinet
- to draw; to paint; picture; painting (CL:幅[fu2],張|张[zhang1])
- stealthily; secretly; covertly; furtively; on the sly
- to absorb; to assimilate; to ingest; to recruit
- nutrition; nourishment; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- happiness; happy; blessed
- to be fondly attached to; to not wish to part with; to cling to
- wan and sallow; thin and pallid; haggard; (of plants) withered
- both; both of them; neither
- Innsbruck, city in Austria
- distant relative
- to be a guest or visitor
- to chatter; to babble
- (onom.) swishing; rustling
- tie; link; bond
- ma; mom; mother
- bashful; blushing
- ordinarily; in normal times; in peacetime
- 拉 lā: 拉 la1: to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels拉 lá: 拉 la2: to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash拉 là: 拉 la4: used in 拉拉蛄[la4 la4 gu3]
- to hum and haw (idiom); to mumble as if hiding sth; to speak and break off, then start again; to hold sth back
- a relative (i.e. family relation); CL:門|门[men2],個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- bachelor; single man
- to propose marriage
- main; principal; major; primary
- to give thought (to others); to consider (other people's needs); also pr. [zhao2 xiang3]
- hot blood; warm-blooded (animal); endothermic (physiology)
- phonetic fei or fi; (literary) rich with literary elegance; phi (Greek letter Φ, φ)
- villa; CL:幢[zhuang4],座[zuo4]
- stepfather
- in a low voice; softly
- to stretch out (one's arms or legs etc)
- 后 hòu: 后 hou4: empress; queen; (archaic) monarch; ruler后 Hòu: 后 Hou4: surname Hou后 hòu: 后 hou4: back; behind; rear; afterwards; after; later; post-
- 仰 yǎng: 仰 yang3: to face upward; to look up; to admire; to rely on仰 Yǎng: 仰 Yang3: surname Yang
- to fall; to tumble; to trip; (of prices etc) to drop; Taiwan pr. [die2]
- to have no right; to have no authority
- to act independently; to be autonomous; to be in control of one's own affairs