- lit. cannot rest or eat in peace (idiom); fig. extremely worried and troubled
- (coll.) to like
- to exaggerate
- dog; CL:隻|只[zhi1],條|条[tiao2]
- (voice, music) suave; mellow; (speech) indirect; tactful
- sapphire
- important; urgent
- reserves (bank)
- to discipline; to teach; to guarantee
- free; vacant; unoccupied
- turtledove; (literary) to gather
- mama; mommy; mother; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- flourishing; prosperous; suddenly; abruptly
- to present; to submit
- to find an excuse
- prison; jail
- Thursday
- old man
- to untie; to free; to absolve of; to get free of; to extirpate oneself; (Buddhism) to free oneself of worldly worries
- to run away; to escape
- rumors and slanders (idiom); gossip; lies and slanders
- Hill (name); Christopher Hill, US undersecretary of state of East Asian affairs
- the river of love; a stumbling block on the path to enlightenment (Buddhism)
- Vaud province of Switzerland
- widow
- affable; genial
- to change profession
- 差事 chāi shi: 差事 chai1 shi5: errand; assignment; job; commission; CL:件[jian4]; see also 差使[chai1 shi5]差事 chà shì: 差事 cha4 shi4: poor; not up to standard
- to just happen to coincide with
- to improve; to take a turn for the better; improvement
- lit. the night-blooming cactus shows once; flash in the pan (idiom); short-lived
- (medicine) high fever
- style of conversation