- (literary) dawn; daybreak; dan, female role in Chinese opera (traditionally played by specialized male actors)
- sunset
- mirror; lens
- (of a woman) to adorn oneself; makeup; adornment; trousseau; stage makeup and costume
- (bound form) to leave behind
- young
- 暂 zàn: 暂 zan4: temporary; Taiwan pr. [zhan4]暂 zàn: 暂 zan4: to scurry
- to sacrifice; to offer libation to
- to go; to visit (e.g. another country); to attend (a banquet etc)
- to owe; to lack; (literary) to be deficient in; (bound form) yawn; to raise slightly (a part of one's body)
- book; booklet; classifier for books
- scholar; Confucian
- whip or lash; to flog; to whip; conductor's baton; segmented iron weapon (old); penis (of animal, served as food)
- pleased
- main key (of a musical composition); keynote (speech)
- bastard; son of a bitch
- to twist words and force logic (idiom); sophistry; loud rhetoric making up for fallacious argument; shoving false arguments down people's throats
- to be bereaved of one's wife
- to accept tacitly; acquiescence
- lit. to strike with a muckrake (idiom), cf Pigsy 豬八戒|猪八戒 in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记; fig. to counterattack; to make bogus accusations (against one's victim)
- to hasten home for the funeral of a parent or grandparent
- to break off or break open sth with one's hands; (fig.) to break off (a relationship)
- finger; toe; CL:個|个[ge4]
- illumination
- 看好 kàn hǎo: 看好 kan4 hao3: to regard as having good prospects看好 kān hǎo: 看好 kan1 hao3: to keep an eye on
- charm or grace (in poetry or art)
- glorious achievement (idiom)
- talking in one's sleep; delirious ravings; nonsense; sheer fantasy
- equally famous
- Liu Shan (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263; Taiwan pr. [Liu2 Chan2]
- aides and advisors of top officials
- inferior (often in the combination 毫無遜色|毫无逊色, not in the least inferior)
- to consider; to give serious consideration to sth; consideration
- to concoct; to invent; to fabricate; to produce; to process; processing and curing (Chinese medicine)