- lit. hair stands up in anger and tips off one's hat (idiom); fig. seething in anger; raise one's hackles
- temperament; disposition
- lit. either the fish dies or the net splits; a life and death struggle (idiom)
- communal meal; formal dinner of club or group
- 食 shí: 食 shi2: to eat; food; animal feed; eclipse食 sì: 食 si4: to feed (a person or animal)
- chopstick
- to sleep; to lie down
- luckily; by a fluke
- to fall asleep
- to go to bed; to sleep
- to hug; to cherish; within the bosom (of the family); to embrace (also fig. an ideal, aspiration etc)
- (double-edged) sword (esp. a valuable or famous one); CL:把[ba3]
- double-edged sword; CL:口[kou3],把[ba3]; classifier for blows of a sword
- to recall; to recollect; to think back
- one's conduct and deeds
- to burst with rage; to blow one's top
- lung; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to search one's guts and belly (idiom); to racks one's brains for a solution
- to ingratiate oneself with; to pander to
- to draw up; to draft; to formulate
- 废 fèi: 废 fei4: to abolish; to abandon; to abrogate; to discard; to depose; to oust; crippled; abandoned; waste废 fèi: 废 fei4: disabled
- resolutely; firmly; ferociously; ruthlessly
- fearless; not worried (by setbacks or difficulties); even if; even though
- everyone; every person
- 哪 něi: 哪 nei3: which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier)哪 nǎ: 哪 na3: how; which哪 na: 哪 na5: (emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊[a5] after a word ending in "n")哪 né: 哪 ne2: used in 哪吒[Ne2 zha1]; Taiwan pr. [nuo2]
- to operate; to control; to rig; to manipulate
- to choke (on); to choke up; to suffocate
- tomato
- to rely mainly on; to attach most importance to
- once; already; former; previously; ever; (past tense marker used before verb or clause)
- to flatter
- indeed; really; reliable; real; true
- lacking in confidence; diffident; to have a guilty conscience
- secret letter
- matters; arrangements
- to serve (in some capacity); to work for