- forbidden fruit (esp. premarital sex)
- 勒 lè: 勒 le4: (literary) bridle; halter; headstall; to rein in; to compel; to force; (literary) to carve; to engrave; (literary) to command; to lead (an army etc); (physics) lux (abbr. for 勒克斯[le4 ke4 si1])勒 lēi: 勒 lei1: to strap tightly; to bind
- Catholic or Orthodox priest; Father (title of address)
- to leave; to part from; to bid farewell to; to say goodbye to
- wise man
- to go to jail; to be sent to prison
- the Confucian classics; (Christianity, Judaism) the holy scriptures; CL:本[ben3],部[bu4]
- bristle
- shirt; blouse; CL:件[jian4]
- second; number two; next; secondary
- 迟 Chí: 迟 Chi2: surname Chi迟 chí: 迟 chi2: late; delayed; slow
- to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb); hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2 lai5]); ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]); for the past (amount of time); (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2 shi4]); (between two verbs) in order to; (after a round number) approximately; (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])
- to reap a bumper harvest
- 论 lùn: 论 lun4: opinion; view; theory; doctrine; to discuss; to talk about; to regard; to consider; per; by the (kilometer, hour etc)论 Lún: 论 Lun2: abbr. for 論語|论语[Lun2 yu3], The Analects (of Confucius)
- 美德 měi dé: 美德 mei3 de2: virtue美德 Měi Dé: 美德 Mei3 De2: USA and Germany
- crime; evil; sin
- art
- the Louvre, museum in Paris
- romance; love (romantic); CL:份[fen4]
- (formal) to go to; to head for
- Russia
- journey; trip
- politics; political
- philosophy
- Yekaterina or Ekaterina (name); Catherine the Great or Catherine the Second (1684-1727), Empress of Russia
- heavenly emperor; "the Great" (title)
- words of the deceased; last words of the dying; wisdom of past sages
- to speak; to explain; to negotiate; to emphasize; to be particular about; as far as sth is concerned; speech; lecture
- 给 gěi: 给 gei3: to; for; for the benefit of; to give; to allow; to do sth (for sb); (grammatical equivalent of 被); (grammatical equivalent of 把); (sentence intensifier)给 jǐ: 给 ji3: to supply; to provide
- autocracy; dictatorship
- ruler
- United States; USA; US
- coda; epilogue; end
- to walk
- two; both; some; a few; tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty 斤[jin1] (old)