- lit. just sitting and eating, one can deplete even a mountain of wealth (idiom); fig. to spend one's money without generating any income
- to maintain; to keep up; to hold together
- to have no alternative (idiom); compelled by circumstances; forced into sth
- impoverished; destitute
- economy; economic
- to have no alternative but to; to be obliged to
- to pawn; pawnshop
- to change money; to sell
- to sell; to offer for sale; to put on the market
- cloth (by the yard)
- satin; silk fabric
- forming a complete set; complementing one another
- chairs and tables; household furniture
- (furniture) screen
- dowry
- to sell off (one's property)
- out of (supply); spent; exhausted (used up); depleted
- to mark down (the price of goods); to sell off cheap
- war of resistance, especially the war against Japan (1937-1945)
- public; for public use
- warehouse; storehouse; (file) library
- (used in names of people and shops, symbolizing prosperity)
- 园 yuán: 园 yuan2: land used for growing plants; site used for public recreation; abbr. for a place ending in 園|园, such as a botanical garden 植物園|植物园, kindergarten 幼兒園|幼儿园 etc园 Yuán: 园 Yuan2: surname Yuan
- to give birth; to reproduce; to produce; product; resource; estate; property
- to liberate; to emancipate; liberation; refers to the Communists' victory over the Nationalists in 1949; CL:次[ci4]
- eve; the day before
- all the rage for a time; grand fashion for a limited time
- the name remains, but the reality is gone (idiom)
- inseparable; inevitably linked to
- theory; CL:個|个[ge4]; to argue; to take notice of
- the character 8 or 八; birthdate characters used in fortune-telling
- true statement; incantation (translates Sanskrit: dharani 陀羅尼|陀罗尼)
- to conduct oneself; to behave with integrity
- the next generation
- case; (for) instance; example; CL:個|个[ge4]
- backstage area; behind-the-scenes supporter; (computing) back-end; background
- to touch (physically, one's feelings etc); to touch on (a topic)
- policy; guidelines; CL:個|个[ge4]
- advantageous; favorable
- self-study; to study on one's own
- to be studying (at a school or research institute)
- to hang (down); droop; dangle; bend down; hand down; bequeath; nearly; almost; to approach