- main content; matter; work; origin of an incident; cause; purpose; subject (of business letter)
- to shift (funds); to (legitimately) take funds set aside for one purpose in order to use them for another; to embezzle; to misappropriate
- reverent and respectful; extremely deferential
- to scold
- matter; substance; material; materialistic; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to no avail; achieving nothing; totally ineffective; to have no effect; to fall flat (esp. of joke or speech that is completely ignored)
- cash
- self-control
- to say one and mean just that (idiom); to keep one's word
- to determine; to resolve
- to take away
- to store; to have sth in storage
- hollow; emptiness; meaningless
- natural disaster; famine
- to take possession of; to get hold of
- awn (of cereals); arista (of grain); tip (of a blade); Miscanthus sinensis (type of grass)
- spicy hot (taste); fig. biting (criticism)
- lit. can pass through (an opening); fig. can get by (in life); tolerably well; not too bad; How are you getting by?; How's life?
- lit. to fear the wolf in front and the tiger behind (idiom); fig. to be full of needless fears; reds under the beds
- to spend money
- to skip stones (on water); (coll.) to squander one's money on a bad investment
- wicked beyond redemption (idiom); heinous
- mind; state of mind; attention; (Chinese medicine) psychic constitution
- current situation
- (idiom) simple; plain; unadorned
- one's own wishful thinking
- rash
- degree of seriousness of an illness; patient's condition
- ordination platform in a Buddhist temple
- unexpected misfortune; unexpected accident; sudden death
- cold-blood; cold-blooded (animal)
- free; unrestrained; to inundate
- 布 bù: 布 bu4: to announce; to spread布 bù: 布 bu4: cloth; to declare; to announce; to spread; to make known
- monk
- religion
- to escape from the abyss of suffering; to shed off a wretched plight
- soon; at an early date; the early days; the past
- see 未可厚非[wei4 ke3 hou4 fei1]