- a pretext for gossip; a matter for derision
- profound; abstruse mystery
- disaster; catastrophe
- lucky; auspicious; propitious
- nature; the natural world
- phenomenon; CL:個|个[ge4],種|种[zhong3]; appearance
- world view; conception of the universe
- worldview; world outlook; Weltanschauung
- awl; CL:把[ba3]
- to freeze; to solidify; to congeal; fig. with rapt attention
- non-scheduled; irregularly
- strange; unusual; evil ways; dishonest practices
- to call; to be called
- 笼 lóng: 笼 long2: enclosing frame made of bamboo, wire etc; cage; basket; steamer basket笼 lǒng: 笼 long3: to envelop; to cover; (used in 籠子|笼子[long3 zi5]) large box; Taiwan pr. [long2]
- to resist; to withstand
- wind chill; cold weather; common cold (medicine)
- poison; to poison; poisonous; malicious; cruel; fierce; narcotics
- uncomfortably hot and dry; stiflingly hot; (of the body) flushed and feverishly warm; (fig.) agitated; restless; irritable; (TCM) dry-heat
- mature; ripe; to mature; to ripen; Taiwan pr. [cheng2shou2]
- pig head; (coll.) fool; jerk
- to practice fraud; to cheat; to engage in corrupt practices
- clamor raises the dust (idiom); a tremendous clamor; to raise a tremendous stink
- 舌 jī: 舌 ji1: used in 喇舌[la3 ji1] to transcribe the Taiwanese word for "tongue"舌 shé: 舌 she2: tongue
- to follow; following; along
- (herb); implore; pray; place name
- (literary) not; used in transliteration
- juncture; moment
- all ages
- member
- lit. the stove fire has turned bright green (allusion to Daoist alchemy) (idiom); fig. (of an art, a technique etc) brought to the point of perfection
- to drop (subject etc)