- lowly; humble
- (coll.) poor devil; unfortunate man
- cart driver; coachman
- intoxicated
- to lose consciousness; unconscious; in a coma
- urgent; pressing; imperative
- to stop; to prohibit; until; only
- to digress; to stray from the topic
- lit. badly burned about the head (from trying to put out a fire) (idiom); fig. hard-pressed; under pressure (from a heavy workload, creditors etc)
- official's salary (in feudal times)
- limit; extreme boundary
- spirit of devotion; dedication
- to guide; to show; to point (the way); directions; guidance; guidelines
- to explain
- rich; plentiful
- (lit.) froth and shadows; (fig.) illusion; mirage
- 挣 zhèng: 挣 zheng4: to struggle to get free; to strive to acquire; to make (money)挣 zhēng: 挣 zheng1: used in 掙扎|挣扎[zheng1 zha2]
- arrogant and obstinate (idiom); unyielding
- to lose; to throw away; to discard; to cast away
- to degenerate; impoverished; to fall (into poverty); to be reduced (to begging)
- lit. robust years; prime of life; summer; able-bodied (fit for military service); mature (talent, garden etc)
- Chinese boxing; fist and feet; punching and kicking
- blind person
- publishing house
- bookstore; CL:家[jia1]
- to pay back in full; to redeem a debt
- remainder; surplus
- monumental (literary) work
- origin; to originate; to come from
- kind and charitable
- to grant whatever is asked for; to accede to every plea
- newspapers and periodicals; the press
- fund
- usual; customary
- to grab
- to get away with it; to slip through; to bluff one's way out; Taiwan pr. [meng1 hun4 guo4 guan1]