- to live; life; livelihood
- 书 Shū: 书 Shu1: abbr. for 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1]书 shū: 书 shu1: book; letter; document; CL:本[ben3],冊|册[ce4],部[bu4]; to write
- to mention; to raise (a subject); to refer to
- 乘 Chéng: 乘 Cheng2: surname Cheng乘 chéng: 乘 cheng2: to ride; to mount; to make use of; to avail oneself of; to take advantage of; to multiply (math.); Buddhist sect or creed乘 shèng: 乘 sheng4: (archaic) four horse military chariot; (archaic) four; generic term for history books
- (archaic) man-drawn carriage; an imperial carriage; to transport by carriage
- to go out somewhere (relatively short trip); to set off on a journey (longer trip)
- (bound form) right; right-hand side; (bound form) (politics) right of center; (bound form) (old) west; (literary) the right side as the side of precedence
- 左 zǔo: 左 zuo3: left; the Left (politics); east; unorthodox; queer; wrong; differing; opposite左 Zǔo: 左 Zuo3: surname Zuo
- 随 Súi: 随 Sui2: surname Sui随 súi: 随 sui2: to follow; to comply with; varying according to...; to allow; subsequently
- the final years (of a regime)
- female; woman; daughter
- owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games)
- widow
- to hold power
- many; quite a lot; much better
- day; a (calendar) date; days of one's life
- seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be
- bored; boring; senseless
- she
- time; length of time; moment; period
- strokes of a Chinese character
- to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon
- trick; drama; play; show; CL:齣|出[chu1],場|场[chang3],臺|台[tai2]
- 倒 dào: 倒 dao4: to invert; to place upside down or frontside back; to pour out; to tip out; to dump; inverted; upside down; reversed; to go backward; contrary to what one might expect; but; yet倒 dǎo: 倒 dao3: to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow; to change (trains or buses); to move around; to resell at a profit
- idle; leisurely
- 解 jiě: 解 jie3: to divide; to break up; to split; to separate; to dissolve; to solve; to melt; to remove; to untie; to loosen; to open; to emancipate; to explain; to understand; to know; a solution; a dissection解 jiè: 解 jie4: to transport under guard解 xiè: 解 xie4: acrobatic display (esp. on horseback) (old)解 Xiè: 解 Xie4: surname Xie
- to feel agitated; to be troubled; to be annoyed; an upset or distraction
- to attend to; to care for (patients etc); to look after; to wait upon; to serve; also written 伏侍, see also 服事[fu2 shi4]
- inseparable; inevitably linked to
- two; both; some; a few; tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty 斤[jin1] (old)
- close; familiar; intimate; closely (related); to foster close ties; to pay close attention
- every day
- cooked rice; CL:碗[wan3]; meal; CL:頓|顿[dun4]; (loanword) fan; devotee
- morning and evening; (in reference to sth that is bound to happen) sooner or later; one of these days; (coll.) (this, or that) point of time; (dialect) at some time in the future
- everyday life; regular pattern of life
- to sb's face; in sb's presence
- to give one's respects; to send a greeting; (fig.) (coll.) to make offensive reference to (somebody dear to the person to whom one is speaking)
- to go forward; to advance; to go in; to enter; to put in; to submit; to take in; to admit; (math.) base of a number system; classifier for sections in a building or residential compound
- fragrant; sweet smelling; aromatic; savory or appetizing; (to eat) with relish; (of sleep) sound; perfume or spice; joss or incense stick; CL:根[gen1]
- sometimes
- bedroom; dormitory; CL:間|间[jian1]
- to pay a visit to; to see (sb)
- to walk; to go; to run; to move (of vehicle); to visit; to leave; to go away; to die (euph.); from; through; away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走[che4 zou3]); to change (shape, form, meaning)
- front; the front side; in front of
- the rest; the others; remaining; remainder; apart from them
- distant; by far