- 结 jiē: 结 jie1: (of a plant) to produce (fruit or seeds); Taiwan pr. [jie2]结 jié: 结 jie2: knot; sturdy; bond; to tie; to bind; to check out (of a hotel)
- 幢 chuáng: 幢 chuang2: banner; pennant (in ancient China)幢 zhuàng: 幢 zhuang4: classifier for buildings (Taiwan pr. [chuang2]); (archaic) curtain hung over boat or carriage windows
- breath; news; interest (on an investment or loan); to cease; to stop; to rest; Taiwan pr. [xi2]
- 同 tóng: 同 tong2: like; same; similar; together; alike; with同 tòng: 同 tong4: used in 胡同[hu2 tong4]同 tòng: 同 tong4: used in 衚衕|胡同[hu2 tong4]
- wretched; poverty-stricken; unpresentable (for clothing, gifts etc)
- widow
- mourning clothes
- not yet; still not
- to grow up
- slightly-built; petite
- daughter
- (idiom) wordless; silent; taciturn; without speaking
- to soak; to permeate; to immerse
- the capitalist class; the bourgeoisie
- (of a scholar) impoverished, shabby and pedantic; impoverished pedant
- lit. to hang up a plate; to open up for business; listed (on stock market)
- moreover; besides; in addition; furthermore
- (coll.) for a long time
- to be patient; patience
- to be weary of; to be fed up with; to be bored with
- ugly; repulsive
- to quarrel; to have a row; quarrel; CL:頓|顿[dun4]
- nature; character; property; quality; attribute; sexuality; sex; gender; suffix forming adjective from verb; suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity; essence; CL:個|个[ge4]
- poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly
- to loathe; to abhor; hatred; revulsion
- poor; impoverished
- to catch (a disease); to get (a bad habit)
- proletariat; non-propertied person
- drunkard
- (coll.) wife
- midnight; in the middle of the night
- tray; plate; dish; CL:個|个[ge4]
- lit. head broken and blood flowing; fig. badly bruised
- with dishevelled hair (idiom); with one's hair down
- stair; staircase; CL:個|个[ge4]
- (lit. and fig.) to open a door; to open for business
- disturbance; crisis; disputes; restlessness; CL:場|场[chang2]
- to calculate; to figure out; to include; to count in; to count; to be valid; to carry weight; to regard as; to consider (to be ...)