- ordinary person; mortal; earthling
- embryonic period (contrasted with 後天|后天[hou4 tian1]); inborn; innate; natural
- middle school
- keen; sharp; acute
- insight
- to pass through; to penetrate; by means of; via
- (human) body
- to hold a welcoming dinner or reception
- leather bag
- to throb; to pulse; to bounce; to jiggle; to jump about
- fretful; impatient
- convulsed with fear (idiom)
- (idiom) the age of 30
- to put into
- to open one's mouth (to eat, speak etc); to gape; to start talking (esp. to make a request)
- empty words; bogus speech
- to want to say sth but then hesitate
- to be effective (idiom)
- homework; assignment; task; classwork; lesson; study; CL:門|门[men2]
- to offer a libation; person who performs the libation before a banquet; senior member of a profession; important government post in imperial China
- hot dog (loanword)
- temple; ancestral shrine; CL:座[zuo4]; temple fair; great imperial hall; imperial
- slight; light; trivial; to a small extent
- to mock; to disparage; to belittle
- (bound form) whole; complete; entire; (before a measure word) whole; (before or after number + measure word) exactly; (bound form) in good order; tidy; neat; (bound form) to put in order; to straighten; (bound form) to repair; to mend; to renovate; (coll.) to fix sb; to give sb a hard time; to mess with sb; (dialect) to tinker with; to do sth to
- for the first time; first (meeting, attempt etc)
- to meet face to face; to meet in person
- to eat and drink as much as one likes; to make a pig of oneself
- improvisation (in the arts); impromptu; extemporaneous
- 否 fǒu: 否 fou3: to negate; to deny; not否 pǐ: 否 pi3: clogged; evil
- 晃 huàng: 晃 huang4: to sway; to shake; to wander about晃 huǎng: 晃 huang3: to dazzle; to flash past
- (idiom) to blurt out; to let slip (an indiscreet remark)
- the Xiangjiang river in Hunan province
- imperial concubine
- tear stains
- spot; colored patch; stripe; spotted; striped; variegated
- 侯 Hóu: 侯 Hou2: surname Hou侯 hóu: 侯 hou2: marquis, second of the five orders of ancient Chinese nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; nobleman; high official侯 hòu: 侯 hou4: used in 閩侯|闽侯[Min3 hou4] (the name of a place in Fujian)
- same as 斑竹[ban1 zhu2], mottled bamboo, since according to legend the spots on mottled bamboo are marks left by the tears shed by two of King Shun's 舜[Shun4] concubines (Ehuang 娥皇[E2 huang2] and Nüying 女英[Nu:3 ying1], known as the Concubines of the Xiang 湘妃[Xiang1 Fei1]) upon learning of his death
- to manufacture; to turn out (a product)
- sparkling and translucent
- 绿 lù: 绿 lu4: used in names绿 lǜ: 绿 lu:4: green; (slang) (derived from 綠帽子|绿帽子[lu:4 mao4 zi5]) to cheat on (one's spouse or boyfriend or girlfriend)