- human nature (idiom); a behavior that is only natural
- to pass the provincial level imperial examination
- hanger-on; visitor (in a nobleman's house)
- to vie against one another; to fight each other; mutual aggression
- to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement
- every day
- 仔 zǎi: 仔 zai3: (dialect) (bound form) young man仔 zī: 仔 zi1: used in 仔肩[zi1 jian1]仔 zǐ: 仔 zi3: (bound form) (of domestic animals or fowl) young; (bound form) fine; detailed
- Master (term used by servant); Your Majesty; operator (of machine)
- power; influence; potential; momentum; tendency; trend; situation; conditions; outward appearance; sign; gesture; male genitals
- a number of; each and every one; one by one; one after another
- gloomy; depressed
- to whine; to be grouchy
- at one's wit's end; unable to find a way out
- to remain; to be left; to have as remainder
- the top and bottom of sth; the full vertical extent of sth; from top to bottom; to go up and down; before and after (as in 上下文[shang4 xia4 wen2] "context"); (used after a quantity) approximately; ... or so; (in a social hierarchy) the high and the low; seniors and juniors (as in 上下和睦[shang4 xia4 he2 mu4] "harmony between superiors and subordinates"); all members of a group (as in 舉國上下|举国上下[ju3 guo2 shang4 xia4] "the entire nation"); relative superiority (as in 不相上下[bu4 xiang1 shang4 xia4] "evenly matched")
- lit. old general; commander-in-chief 將帥|将帅, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess; fig. old-timer; veteran
- in twos and threes
- to loathe; to hate; disgusted with sth
- snob
- features, face (esp. derogatorily); look; appearance; countenance
- (coll.) old man; (said of an aging husband) my old man
- hereafter; henceforth; in the future; from now on
- ashamed
- to criticize; criticism; CL:次[ci4],番[fan1]
- to deal; to trade; to transact; transaction; deal; CL:筆|笔[bi3]
- grievance; resentment; complaint
- chest; bosom; heart; mind; thorax
- to catch fire
- to rest with; to lie in; to be due to (a certain attribute); (often used in the negative) to care about
- lit. from head to tail (idiom); thoroughgoing; through and through; out and out; from top to bottom
- good luck
- bad luck; misfortune; adversity
- only if (..., or otherwise, ...); only when; only in the case that; unless
- (coll.) eagle; hawk; any similar bird of prey
- enchantment; magic
- Reeves's pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii); (dialect) pheasant
- to circle in the air; to soar
- (onom.) chirp; twitter; buzzing; to chatter continuously
- to get out of a predicament; to stick out; to take the initiative; remaining odd fraction after a division; a little more than
- (animal's) claw
- general term for a bird of prey (eagle, hawk or falcon etc)
- to flee in defeat; to bolt