- to celebrate a festival; after the celebrations (i.e. once the festival is over)
- longevity; venerable age; your venerable age?
- to congratulate
- age (number of years old)
- to die of old age; to die in one's bed at a ripe old age; (fig.) (of a structure or machine etc) to come to the end of its life
- funeral and interment
- (literary) body (of a human, esp. the torso); (bound form) to bow; (literary) oneself; personally
- 逮 dǎi: 逮 dai3: (coll.) to catch; to seize; to capture逮 dài: 逮 dai4: (literary) to reach; used in 逮捕[dai4 bu3] (Taiwan pr. [dai3])
- to consent; to promise; (literary) yes!
- a pretext for gossip; a matter for derision
- 任 Rén: 任 Ren2: surname Ren任 rèn: 任 ren4: to assign; to appoint; to take up a post; office; responsibility; to let; to allow; to give free rein to; no matter (how, what etc); classifier for terms served in office, or for spouses, girlfriends etc (as in 前任男友)
- lit. a promise worth a thousand pieces of gold (idiom); fig. a promise that can be counted on
- sketchy; concise; abbreviated
- to economize; to conserve (resources); economy; frugal
- to accept; to adopt
- to wash; to squander; to sweep away; to move; to shake; dissolute; pond
- careless; sloppy; negligent; skimpy
- reserved; overcautious
- minimal; extremely small
- to tolerate or condone wrongdoing; to allow (sb) to engage in bad behavior
- to settle for second best; the next best thing
- to adopt; to employ; to use
- to be as good as one's word (idiom); to keep one's promise
- to miss an appointment
- way of doing sth; behavior; to act in an affected manner; mannerism; gestures in opera
- small number; few; minority
- administrator; executive secretary
- to output; to deliver (energy, data, signals etc); to export (goods, services, technology etc)
- Tsinghua University, Beijing; National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
- public square; plaza
- sundial
- quarter (hour); moment; to carve; to engrave; to cut; oppressive; classifier for short time intervals
- abbr. for 清華大學|清华大学[Qing1 hua2 Da4 xue2]
- the tone of a school; campus atmosphere
- to divide (into); to split a bonus; to break into; tenths; percentage allotment
- to take a photograph; photography; to shoot (a movie)