- to overreach oneself; to try to be clever and end up with egg on one's face
- to lecture; to teach
- to repeat (one's own words or sb else's); (in the classroom) to paraphrase what one has learned
- if (coming after a conditional clause)
- result; effect; efficacy; (theater) sound or visual effects
- very small; very little; scant; minimal
- to raise one and infer three; to deduce many things from one case (idiom)
- woman; female
- to put on makeup
- hereby; from this
- to spread extensively; to generalize; widespread; popular; universal; ubiquitous; pervasive
- above
- height; altitude; elevation; high degree; highly; CL:個|个[ge4]
- from start to finish; from head to tail; the whole (thing)
- little by little; bit by bit; gradually
- conveniently; without extra trouble; while doing it; in passing
- to like; fond of; to prefer; to love; one's tastes; preference
- to be interested
- to recite; to repeat from memory
- esthetics; appreciating the arts; taste
- romantic
- (romantic) love; CL:個|个[ge4],場|场[chang3]; in love; to have an affair
- fresh and pure
- burning fiercely; flaming; blazing
- beautiful; wonderful; splendid
- source; origin; fountainhead
- 杞 Qǐ: 杞 Qi3: Qi, a Zhou Dynasty vassal state; surname Qi杞 qǐ: 杞 qi3: Chinese wolfberry shrub (Lycium chinense); willow
- reference material (used in scholarly study)
- end (of a period); last part; final phase
- lit. like the man of 杞[Qi3] who feared the sky would fall (idiom); fig. to entertain groundless fears
- the State of Qǐ in modern Qǐ county 杞縣|杞县, Henan (c. 1500-445 BC), a small vassal state of Shang and Western Zhou for most of its existence
- unique; exceptional
- ruler
- to kill to the last one (idiom); to exterminate; to eradicate; ruthless
- new generation
- to eliminate
- the previous dynasty
- to find a place for; to help settle down; to arrange for; to get into bed; placement
- descendant; progeny; posterity; later ages; later generations
- (of written or spoken material) easy to understand; accessible