- entire book; unabridged book
- section; paragraph; funds; CL:筆|笔[bi3],個|个[ge4]; classifier for versions or models (of a product)
- practical; workable; to implement; to carry out; to decide
- to accord with; to conform to
- to select; to detail; to set apart; to appoint
- to be abbreviated to; (followed by a verb) slightly
- to exchange conventional greetings; to exchange pleasantries
- to tell in detail
- (idiom) bitterly cold; frigid
- menfolk (collective term for men of different generations); husbands and their fathers etc
- (literary) fatigued; wearied
- to investigate; to probe
- guilty conscience; to feel a twinge of guilt
- tired; exhausted; worn out; to toil
- to suit one's taste; suitable; congenial; by mutual agreement
- to inconvenience; to trouble (sb with a request)
- (used self-deprecatingly, e.g. when asked to sing a song) to put one's artistic incompetence on display
- popular custom
- 扛 gāng: 扛 gang1: to raise aloft with both hands; (of two or more people) to carry sth together扛 káng: 扛 kang2: to carry on one's shoulder; (fig.) to take on (a burden, duty etc)
- 夫 fú: 夫 fu2: (classical) this, that; he, she, they; (exclamatory final particle); (initial particle, introduces an opinion)夫 fū: 夫 fu1: husband; man; manual worker; conscripted laborer (old)
- large-scale Chinese opera; Beijing opera; major dramatic production (movie, TV series etc)
- 烟火 yān hǔo: 烟火 yan1 huo3: smoke and fire; cooked food; (literary) beacon fire; (literary) descendants; posterity烟火 yān huo: 烟火 yan1 huo5: fireworks
- perfect (idiom); perfection; the best of all possible worlds; as good as it gets
- tenant farmer; sharecropper
- beggar
- to treat everyone equally favorably (idiom); not to discriminate between people
- to slight (treat badly)
- to issue; to grant; to distribute
- mourning garment
- mourning clothes
- love; devotion (to children); affection, esp. towards children
- secret virtue
- to spruce up; to renovate; to tend (a garden); to groom (one's hair); to finish (a rough surface); to trim (a lawn); to touch up (a photo)
- neatly; tidy
- unobstructed; unimpeded; free-flowing; smooth
- straw from barley or wheat
- to ram; to tamp; a rammer; a tamper