- to nod one's head and bow (idiom); bowing and scraping; unctuous fawning
- to point out; to remind (sb of sth); to suggest; suggestion; tip; reminder; notice
- to engage in social activities; to socialize; dinner party; banquet; social engagement
- li (Chinese unit of length equal to 500 meters)
- large-format (picture, banner, photo etc); substantially; by a wide margin
- to hit the market (of a new product); to float (a company on the stock market)
- to overwhelm; to overpower; overwhelming
- diner (in a restaurant etc); hanger-on; sponger
- expense; cost; to spend (time or money); expenditure
- to live comfortably; to enjoy a happy life
- the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists); fig. people from all trades (often derog.)
- casino
- to hang around; to fool around; to live aimlessly
- to be connected; traffic; transportation; communications; liaison
- hotel; CL:家[jia1]
- compartment (of train, ship etc); private room at restaurant; rented room for karaoke; hotel room rented by the hour
- foreign concession, an enclave occupied by a foreign power (in China in the 19th and 20th centuries)
- to lose; to be beaten; (bound form) to transport; (literary) to donate; to contribute; (coll.) to enter (a password)
- political and government circles
- leading figure; bigwig
- Cao Kun (1862-1938), one of the Northern Warlords
- watchman's clapper; wooden clappers with bars of unequal length; abbr. for 梆子腔[bang1 zi5 qiang1]
- police; police officer
- head of provincial PRC government department
- to come to terms; to reach an agreement
- county's head commissioner
- tin (chemistry); to bestow; to confer; to grant; Taiwan pr. [xi2]
- opium pipe
- feast; banquet
- regime; political power
- to toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly); to repeat sth over and over again; to torment sb; to play crazy; to squander (time, money)
- seventy; 70
- fertile land; to fertilize the soil