- to make a decision; resolution; decisiveness; resolute
- over time; as time passes; in the fullness of time
- 落 lào: 落 lao4: colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds落 lùo: 落 luo4: to fall or drop; (of the sun) to set; (of a tide) to go out; to lower; to decline or sink; to lag or fall behind; to fall onto; to rest with; to get or receive; to write down; whereabouts; settlement落 là: 落 la4: to leave out; to be missing; to leave behind or forget to bring; to lag or fall behind
- one head; a head full of sth; one end (of a stick); one side; headlong; directly; rapidly; simultaneously
- black hair
- to cherish
- picky; fussy
- lit. as if meeting a great enemy (idiom); fig. cautious; with great preoccupation; with strict precaution
- to study meticulously; to delve into
- to be a little bit careless; to have a moment of inattentiveness; accidentally
- phenomenon; CL:個|个[ge4],種|种[zhong3]; appearance
- to take good care of (or conserve) one's health; to keep in good repair; to maintain; maintenance
- (of a person, population or material) to age; (of knowledge) to become outdated
- to viciously beat (sb) up; CL:頓|顿[dun4]
- to spank sb's bottom
- to slap
- to beat (sb or sth) into (a certain condition); to denounce (sb) as (sth contemptible)
- Zhu Bajie, character in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记, with pig-like characteristics and armed with a muckrake; Pigsy in Arthur Waley's translation
- trembling with fear; with fear and trepidation
- stiff; inflexible; also pr. [ai2 ban3]
- custom; customary practice
- type; style
- on the one hand
- unfit for anything; no good; useless; (of a sick person) beyond hope
- (derog.) old fool; old bastard
- to look for
- satisfactory; agreeable
- to forgive easily; to let off lightly (often with negative: you won't get away with it)
- listener; member of audience
- to move to and fro (with hand, foot, stick etc); to fiddle with; to stir up
- lit. small abacus; fig. selfish calculations; bean-counting
- to approach; to get close to
- to stand out among one's peers (idiom); to excel
- lit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head); I don't understand a word (idiom); it's all Greek to me