- (used at the end of a letter to introduce a polite salutation)
- to pray; to say a prayer
- to take in and care for (an elderly person, a dog etc); to adopt (a child); adoption
- glory, splendor, wealth and rank (idiom); high position and great wealth
- 号 hào: 号 hao4: (literary) to call out; to command; (bound form) bugle; trumpet; (bound form) signal; bugle call (e.g. 起床號|起床号[qi3 chuang2 hao4]); (bound form) mark; sign; to mark; to label; to assign a number; (bound form) name; appellation (e.g. 國號|国号[guo2 hao4], 年號|年号[nian2 hao4], 遼寧號|辽宁号[Liao2 ning2 Hao4]); (after a numeral) number designation (e.g. 237號房間|237号房间[er4 san1 qi1 hao4 fang2 jian1] "Room 237"); day of the month (e.g. 七號|七号[qi1 hao4] "the 7th"); (bound form) size; type; category (e.g. 五號電池|五号电池[wu3 hao4 dian4 chi2]); (TCM) to feel (the pulse) (used in 號脈|号脉[hao4 mai4]); classifier for numbered people or items号 háo: 号 hao2: (bound form) to wail; to howl
- house; residence
- warehouse; storehouse; (file) library
- affair; business; matter; to be engaged in; to attend to; by all means
- 总长 zǒng zhǎng: 总长 zong3 zhang3: name used for cabinet ministers between 1912-1927, superseded by 部長|部长[bu4 zhang3]总长 zǒng cháng: 总长 zong3 chang2: total length
- to purchase; to acquire
- to pass away; to die
- to treat sb with due respect (idiom)
- 当年 dàng nián: 当年 dang4 nian2: that very same year当年 dāng nián: 当年 dang1 nian2: in those days; back then; in those years; to be in the prime of life
- attendant
- maid
- subtle
- it is said that; reportedly
- to serve; to wait upon
- to soak; to permeate; to immerse
- 丧 sàng: 丧 sang4: to lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc); to be bereaved of (one's spouse etc); to die; disappointed; discouraged丧 sāng: 丧 sang1: mourning; funeral; (old) corpse
- 子 zǐ: 子 zi3: son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat; viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-子 zi: 子 zi5: noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"
- ache; pain; sorrow; deeply; thoroughly
- (name) Louis
- stump; stake; pile; classifier for events, cases, transactions, affairs etc
- 经 Jīng: 经 Jing1: surname Jing经 jīng: 经 jing1: classics; sacred book; scripture; to pass through; to undergo; to bear; to endure; warp (textile); longitude; menstruation; channel (TCM); abbr. for economics 經濟|经济[jing1 ji4]
- approved by His (or Her) Majesty; permission graciously granted (from highly authoritative position); to graciously permit; to condescend to allow
- high ranking officer in Chinese army; colonel
- Sacred Heart (Christian)
- monastery; convent
- to live in seclusion
- to live to the (ripe) age of
- (a person's) age; CL:把[ba3],個|个[ge4]
- to live as a widow
- to withdraw from; to evacuate
- torch; CL:把[ba3]
- to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head
- nothing left (money, food etc); all finished; bright and shiny; radiant; glorious
- to recoil; to draw back; to fall back; to retreat
- 丁 Dīng: 丁 Ding1: surname Ding丁 dīng: 丁 ding1: male adult; the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干[tian1 gan1]; fourth (used like "4" or "D"); small cube of meat or vegetable; (literary) to encounter; (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195°; (chemistry) butyl丁 zhēng: 丁 zheng1: used in 丁丁[zheng1 zheng1]
- to provide assistance; to support; to back
- fruit; result; resolute; indeed; if really
- half
- (military) encounter; skirmish
- due to; as a result of; thanks to; owing to; since; because
- luckily; by a fluke