- elbow; pork shoulder
- shoulder; to shoulder (responsibilities etc)
- joy
- to worry; anxiety (about)
- 削 xuē: 削 xue1: to pare; to reduce; to remove; Taiwan pr. [xue4]削 xiāo: 削 xiao1: to peel with a knife; to pare; to cut (a ball at tennis etc)
- to edit; to modify; to alter (written material)
- 刮 guā: 刮 gua1: to scrape; to blow; to shave; to plunder; to extort刮 guā: 刮 gua1: to blow (of the wind)
- bamboo and wooden slips (used for writing on in ancient times); letter; correspondence; book; document
- to modestly decline
- deferential; respectful
- to send; to deliver; to transmit; to give (as a present); to see (sb) off; to accompany; to go along with
- to steal; secretly; (humble) I
- soft; flexible; supple; yielding; rho (Greek letter Ρρ)
- annealed; pliable but strong; tough; tenacious
- tight; strict; close at hand; near; urgent; tense; hard up; short of money; to tighten
- Ximen Bao (active around 422 BC), statesman and hydraulic engineer of Wei 魏國|魏国[Wei4 guo2]
- impatient
- slow; unhurried; sluggish; gradual; not tense; relaxed; to postpone; to defer; to stall; to stave off; to revive; to recuperate
- to warn (against some course); to admonish
- to correct (e.g. sight or hearing); to rectify; to cure
- to recall; to recollect; to think back
- distant; remote
- in the past; formerly
- to establish; to build
- to cross over; to pass through
- to put on display (sth abstract); to draw attention to; conspicuous
- to be fond of; to like; to enjoy; to be happy; to feel pleased; happiness; delight; glad
- pretty; beautiful
- mirror; CL:面[mian4],個|个[ge4]
- 德性 dé xing: 德性 de2 xing5: (coll.) revolting behavior; CL:副[fu4]德性 dé xìng: 德性 de2 xing4: moral integrity
- 言语 yán yu: 言语 yan2 yu5: to speak; to tell言语 yán yǔ: 言语 yan2 yu3: words; speech; (spoken) language
- to become famous; to become notorious
- today; the present time; now
- style of writing (literary style); way of writing a character; spelling
- to declare; to aver; to state formally
- so much; this much; how much?; this way; like this
- rather than... (used in expressions of the form 與其|与其[yu3 qi2] + {verb1} + 不如[bu4 ru2] + {verb2} "rather than {verb1}, better to {verb2}")
- to compare
- humble; modest; unpretentious; modesty
- cyan; blue-green
- jade disk with a hole in the center
- treasured object; treasure; darling; baby; cowry; good-for-nothing or queer character