- 弓 gōng: 弓 gong1: a bow (weapon); CL:張|张[zhang1]; to bend; to arch (one's back etc)弓 Gōng: 弓 Gong1: surname Gong
- to plow; to till
- lotus flower (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn, among others); water-lily
- not need; have no use for
- words; expression; what one says
- magnificent; gorgeous; ornate
- to coerce (sb into doing sth bad); to lure (into a trap); to seduce
- to show; to illustrate; to display; to demonstrate
- to manage wealth; to manage finances; money management
- to negate; to deny; to reject; negative (answer); negation
- to define
- someone; a certain person; some people; I (self-address after one's surname)
- carved or engraved lacquerware
- lacquerware
- to take the blame (for sb else)
- disabled person
- social class
- to have low self-esteem; to abase oneself
- to cover the whole (area); to be found throughout
- the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists); fig. people from all trades (often derog.)
- to topple (i.e. knock over); to capsize; fig. to overturn (a regime, by plotting or subversion); to undermine; to subvert
- there
- to transfer (duties to sb else); to give instructions; to tell (sb to do sth); to explain; to give an account; to brief; to confess; to account for oneself; (jocular) to come to a bad end
- pleased
- to set one's heart on sth (idiom)
- to mate or marry; to match; matching; compatible
- to suffer; to torture; to torment; ordeal; suffering; torture; torment
- Peter (name)
- principle; theory
- position; post; job
- general manager; CEO
- lit. what the heart wishes, the hand accomplishes (idiom) skilled at the job; entirely in one's element; going smoothly and easily
- to entail strenuous effort; to toil at a task; strenuous; laborious; strain
- personal gain; (one's own) selfish interest
- 乘 chéng: 乘 cheng2: to ride; to mount; to make use of; to avail oneself of; to take advantage of; to multiply (math.); Buddhist sect or creed乘 Chéng: 乘 Cheng2: surname Cheng乘 shèng: 乘 sheng4: (archaic) four horse military chariot; (archaic) four; generic term for history books
- beam; rafter
- to be loyal to