- pain (from wound); sorrow
- to collapse (of building); to topple over
- nonsense; humbug; bunk; bullshit
- to borrow sb's authority; to seize an opportunity
- reason; cause
- creator; founder; initiator
- to recount history but omit one's ancestors (idiom); to forget one's roots
- ruler
- free and easy (idiom); carefree; leisurely
- lit. a donkey's lips do not match a horse's mouth (saying); fig. wide of the mark; irrelevant; incongruous
- lit. to take joy in calamity and delight in disaster (idiom); fig. to rejoice in other people's misfortune; Schadenfreude
- to let sb do whatever they want; to indulge; to give free reins to; to let things slide; to drift aimlessly; laissez-faire
- red in the face; extremely angry
- frantic; berserk
- to lift up; to carry in one's hand; Taiwan pr. [ling1]
- to spill; to overflow (of water, crowds); to crowd (into a space)
- to kill; to beat to death
- star; celebrity
- first signs; development (of a situation)
- scholar of the rationalist school of Neo-Confucianism 理學|理学[Li3 xue2]
- to bewail one's poverty; to complain about being hard up; to pretend to be poor
- imperial concubine
- amount; sum of money; fixed number
- to reduce by half
- (particle used to exaggerate certain adjectives, in particular 神經兮兮|神经兮兮, 髒兮兮|脏兮兮, 可憐兮兮|可怜兮兮, and 慘兮兮|惨兮兮)
- long sigh; deep sigh
- to take a fall
- to pay (money)
- accounts; financial records; accounting entry
- gentle and soft; tender; sweet (commonly used to describe a girl or woman)
- lit. the soul flies away and scatters (idiom); fig. to be frightened stiff; spooked out of one's mind; terror-stricken
- (bound form) spine; backbone; (bound form) ridge
- account book
- to be fascinated; to be enchanted
- abundant; plentiful
- (idiom) to squander recklessly; to spend extravagantly
- lit. just sitting and eating, one can deplete even a mountain of wealth (idiom); fig. to spend one's money without generating any income
- optimistic; hopeful