- (one's) eyes light up; to be impressed by what one sees
- near
- to speak the truth; truth to tell; frankly
- newly rich; parvenu; upstart
- to help one another; to come to sb's help
- bedside
- to give birth; to grow (whiskers etc); to generate; to produce
- to worry; to fret
- old-fashioned; old type; outdated
- to embroider; to do embroidery
- blanket; quilt; CL:條|条[tiao2],床[chuang2]
- brow beaded with sweat; perspiring freely
- sick personnel; person on the sick list; patient
- sweat; perspiration
- to bet; to gamble
- to bet; to make a bet; a wager
- to get changed; to change clothes
- diversity (of forms and colors)
- ballet (loanword)
- pantomime; mime show
- Venus (mythology, Roman goddess of love)
- (theater) curtain
- to pull open; to pull apart; to space out; to increase
- just before the battle; to approach the front line
- to resolve a difficult situation and leave worries behind (idiom)
- rear view; figure seen from behind; view of the back (of a person or object)
- to seek shelter; to seek asylum
- the public; the state; society; the public purse
- (idiom) to gain the initiative by striking first; to preempt
- mother; elderly female relative; origin; source; (of animals) female
- (idiom) (of people) born and raised in the locality; (of art forms, political parties, enterprises, products etc) developed locally from the outset; wholly indigenous
- 祖 Zǔ: 祖 Zu3: surname Zu祖 zǔ: 祖 zu3: ancestor; forefather; grandparents