- guests; visitors
- to travel back and forth; to shuttle
- to throw into
- heart's blood; expenditure (for some project); meticulous care
- silk; thread-like thing; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips; classifier: a trace (of smoke etc), a tiny bit etc
- nickname
- pregnant; potbelly; big eater
- wrapping cloth; a bundle wrapped in cloth; load; weight; burden; funny part; punchline
- image; form; figure; CL:個|个[ge4]; visualization; vivid
- average; on average; evenly; in equal proportions
- exotic delicacies; luxury foodstuff from distant locations
- name of a famous Tang dynasty wine; same as 白酒[bai2 jiu3]
- commonplace; ordinary; mediocre
- luxurious; sumptuous; lavish
- dissipated; rotten; decaying
- to provide for; to keep (animals, a family etc); to raise animals; to feed and clothe; support; the necessities of life; to give birth
- hardworking; industrious
- sweat; perspiration
- a magnificent and unprecedented event (idiom)
- interest (on a loan); CL:筆|笔[bi3]
- disaster year; (esp.) year of poor harvest
- steep decline
- rent (payment)
- to borrow or lend money; debit and credit items on a balance sheet
- the final years of the Qing dynasty 清朝[Qing1 chao2]; late Qing
- extended family; big family; harmonious group
- (idiom) to feel intimidated
- golden branch, jade leaves (idiom); fig. blue-blooded nobility, esp. imperial kinsmen or peerless beauty
- famous family; prestigious house
- spouse
- the families are well-matched in terms of social status (idiom); (of a prospective marriage partner) an appropriate match
- signboard; shop sign; reputation of a business
- related by marriage; to connect by marriage (families, work units)
- parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law; relatives by marriage
- to idle about
- lit. the strength to truss a chicken (idiom); fig. slight physical strength
- motive power; (fig.) motivation; impetus
- pampered son of a wealthy family