- lit. robust years; prime of life; summer; able-bodied (fit for military service); mature (talent, garden etc)
- not necessarily; maybe not
- to fall gravely ill, never to recover (idiom)
- if
- at this time; at this moment
- to help; to assist; to support; for sb (i.e. as a help); hired (as worker); side (of pail, boat etc); outer layer; upper (of a shoe); group; gang; clique; party; secret society
- the emperor; Your majesty the emperor; His imperial majesty
- to fix; to set; to make definite; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc); to book (tickets etc); to order (goods etc); to congeal; to coagulate; (literary) definitely
- 策 cè: 策 ce4: policy; plan; scheme; bamboo slip for writing (old); to whip (a horse); to encourage; riding crop with sharp spines (old); essay written for the imperial examinations (old); upward horizontal stroke in calligraphy策 Cè: 策 Ce4: surname Ce
- 好 hào: 好 hao4: to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to好 hǎo: 好 hao3: good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello
- 起来 qǐ lai: 起来 qi3 lai5: to stand up; to get up; also pr. [qi3lai2]起来 qi lai: 起来 qi5 lai5: (after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state; indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站[zhan4]); indicating completion; (after a perception verb, e.g. 看[kan4]) expressing preliminary judgment; also pr. [qi3lai5]
- to miss; to remember with longing; to long to see again
- hard to avoid; difficult to escape from; will inevitably
- to bear grudges
- (coll.) even if
- to die
- to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)
- 和 hé: 和 he2: (joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. [han4]); (math.) sum; to make peace; (sports) to draw; to tie; (bound form) harmonious; (bound form) Japan; Japanese和 Hé: 和 He2: surname He和 hè: 和 he4: to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence; to join in the singing; to chime in with others和 hú: 和 hu2: to complete a set in mahjong or playing cards和 húo: 和 huo2: to combine a powdery substance (flour, plaster etc) with water; Taiwan pr. [huo4]和 hùo: 和 huo4: to mix (ingredients) together; to blend; classifier for rinses of clothes; classifier for boilings of medicinal herbs
- empress; imperial consort
- to incite trouble; to stir up havoc
- therefore; as a result; so; the reason why
- don't!; must not
- dialect; language; spoken words; speech; talk; words; conversation; what sb said; CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]
- reason; argument; sense; principle; basis; justification; CL:個|个[ge4]
- ability; talent; sb of a certain type; a capable individual; then and only then; just now; (before an expression of quantity) only; (emphatic, esp. in contrast or correction) really; actually
- to lay down; to put down; to let go of; to relinquish; to set aside; to lower (the blinds etc)
- heart; mind; intention; center; core; CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4]
- immediately; presently; following which
- to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被[bei4])
- hurriedly; without delay
- to return to the capital
- so as not to; so as to avoid
- to attract attention; eye-catching; conspicuous
- to think; to believe (often with the implication that the belief is mistaken – unless referring to one's own current belief)
- to make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc); (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc); (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for; to assume (an air or manner)
- very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
- secret; private; confidential; clandestine; a secret
- 哪 na: 哪 na5: (emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊[a5] after a word ending in "n")哪 né: 哪 ne2: used in 哪吒[Ne2 zha1]; Taiwan pr. [nuo2]哪 něi: 哪 nei3: which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier)哪 nǎ: 哪 na3: how; which
- to know; to be aware
- for a long time; long since; (dialect) in the past
- life span; life expectancy; lifetime (of a machine)
- improbable; unlikely; will not (act, happen etc); not able; not having learned to do sth; (coll.) (Tw) don't mention it; not at all
- 见 jiàn: 见 jian4: to see; to meet; to appear (to be sth); to interview; opinion; view见 xiàn: 见 xian4: to appear; also written 現|现[xian4]
- some; somewhat; rather; a bit
- affair; matter; thing; business; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- it seems; seemingly; as if
- to shun; to avoid (sb); to skirt; to evade (an issue); to step back; to withdraw; to recuse (a judge etc)
- (bound form) idea; thought; meaning; sense; (bound form) intention; feeling; inclination; state of mind; (bound form) Italy (abbr. for 意大利[Yi4 da4 li4])
- 密 mì: 密 mi4: dense; close; thick; intimate; close; (bound form) secret; confidential; (Internet slang) to send a private message to (sb); to DM密 Mì: 密 Mi4: surname Mi; name of an ancient state