- teacher; gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.); husband; (dialect) doctor; CL:位[wei4]
- to feel; to move; to touch; to affect; feeling; emotion; (suffix) sense of ~
- flabbergasted; astonished
- to be at a distance of ... from; to be apart from; (bound form) distance; spur (on the leg of certain birds: gamecock, pheasant etc)
- 贾 gǔ: 贾 gu3: merchant; to buy贾 Jiǎ: 贾 Jia3: surname Jia
- village; (dialect) to scold; rustic; boorish
- left and right; nearby; approximately; attendant; to control; to influence
- 臧 zāng: 臧 zang1: good; right臧 Zāng: 臧 Zang1: surname Zang
- 屯 tún: 屯 tun2: to station (soldiers); to store up; village屯 zhūn: 屯 zhun1: used in 屯邅[zhun1 zhan1]
- four; 4
- 三 Sān: 三 San1: surname San三 sān: 三 san1: three; 3
- writing; culture
- (bound form) to compare; (literary) to dispute; compared to; (before an adjective) relatively; comparatively; rather; also pr. [jiao3]
- muddled and completely collapsing (idiom); in an awful condition; complete shambles; a total mess
- without hope; hopeless; without prospects
- original; originally; at first; it goes without saying; of course
- unexpectedly; to one's surprise
- to take an exam; (of an education system) to be exam-oriented
- father; also pr. [fu4 qin5]; CL:個|个[ge4]
- lit. to hope one's son becomes a dragon (idiom); fig. to long for one' s child to succeed in life; to have great hopes for one's offspring; to give one's child the best education as a career investment
- 逼 bī: 逼 bi1: to compel; to pressure逼 bī: 逼 bi1: to force (sb to do sth); to compel; to press for; to extort; to press on towards; to press up to; to close in on
- constrained; restricted; forced to; under pressure to do sth
- pressure
- to hold; to carry (in one's arms); to hug; to embrace; to surround; to cherish; (coll.) (of clothes) to fit nicely
- 着 zhúo: 着 zhuo2: to wear (clothes); to contact; to use; to apply着 zhāo: 着 zhao1: a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]); trick; tactic; (dialect) okay; all right; (dialect) to put in; to add着 zháo: 着 zhao2: to touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding in着 zhe: 着 zhe5: aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
- to give it a try
- way of thinking; opinion; notion; to think of a way (to do sth)
- as one wishes; as one pleases; at random; negligent; casual; wanton
- a few; several; how many
- letter; symbol; character; word; CL:個|个[ge4]; courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China
- to hand in one's examination script
- brothers; younger brother; CL:個|个[ge4]; I, me (humble term used by men in public speech); brotherly; fraternal
- family member; (old) servant
- although; even though (often used correlatively with 可是[ke3 shi4] or 但是[dan4 shi4] etc)
- (bound form) general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably; anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later; surely; (after a person's name) abbr. for 總經理|总经理[zong3 jing1 li3] or 總編|总编[zong3 bian1] etc
- a little
- strange; odd; to marvel; to be baffled
- neighbors; the whole neighborhood
- ordinary day; everyday; ordinarily; usually
- to read a book; to study; to attend school
- (idiom) dizzy
- writings; writing style
- even more (so)
- (idiom) (of writing, speech etc) incoherent; nonsensical