- side door; doing things by the side door (i.e. dishonestly)
- refined in manner; gentle
- then; after that; afterwards
- inside and outside; domestic and foreign; approximately; about
- to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire); to live; to be alive; life; raw; uncooked; unprocessed; unfamiliar; strange; (bound form) student; person engaged in a field; (bound form) male role in traditional opera; (bound form) life; lifetime; (bound form) means of livelihood; (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2]); (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
- (idiom) to settle down and pursue one's path in life
- upright; upstanding; honest
- 三重 Sān chóng: 三重 San1 chong2: Sanchong, a district of New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 Shi4], Taiwan; Mie (prefecture in Japan)三重 sān chóng: 三重 san1 chong2: treble
- that level or lower; that amount or less; the following
- 语 yù: 语 yu4: (literary) to tell; to let (sb) know语 yǔ: 语 yu3: dialect; language; speech
- lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures; CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1]; (fig.) person with a particular undesirable characteristic
- ice; CL:塊|块[kuai4]; to chill sth; (of an object or substance) to feel cold; (of a person) cold; unfriendly; (slang) methamphetamine
- to respect Gods and demons from a distance (idiom); to remain at a respectful distance
- superstition; to have a superstitious belief (in sth)
- 水 shǔi: 水 shui3: water; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 會水|会水[hui4 shui3] and 水性[shui3 xing4]); (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy; (bound form) additional cost; extra income; classifier for washings of a garment水 Shǔi: 水 Shui3: surname Shui; Shui ethnic group
- (literary) wise; wisdom
- 鲁 Lǔ: 鲁 Lu3: surname Lu; Lu, an ancient state of China 魯國|鲁国[Lu3 guo2]; short name for Shandong 山東|山东[Shan1 dong1]鲁 lǔ: 鲁 lu3: (bound form) crass; stupid; rude; (used to represent the sounds of "ru", "lu" etc in loanwords)
- to change; to become different; to transform; to vary; rebellion
- as for; as to; to go so far as to
- to revere; to admire; to honor; to venerate
- goblet; rule; law
- to sell only for a good price (idiom); to wait for a good offer
- (of flowing water or time) to pass by; to pass away; to die
- pitfall; trap; to get stuck; to sink; to cave in; to frame (false charge); to capture (a city in battle); to fall (to the enemy); defect
- to avert; to prevent; to avoid; to refrain from
- (idiom) to be duped; to get scammed
- learned; erudite
- to restrict; to limit to; to constrain; restriction; constraint
- the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]; gossip; gossipy
- 中庸 Zhōng yōng: 中庸 Zhong1 yong1: the Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1]中庸 zhōng yōng: 中庸 zhong1 yong1: golden mean (Confucianism); (literary) (of person) mediocre; ordinary
- doctrine of the mean; moderation in all things
- near; close to; approximately
- to take; to get; to choose; to fetch
- to give an example
- common; general; to share; together; total; altogether; abbr. for 共產黨|共产党[Gong4 chan3 dang3], Communist party
- (bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion; (bound form) situation; condition
- (bound form) to state; to tell; to narrate; to relate
- to bring forth new ideas; to blaze new trails; innovation
- inseparable; inevitably linked to
- system; setup; CL:個|个[ge4]
- study tirelessly (idiom, from Analects)
- to delay; to postpone; to keep putting sth off; to procrastinate; (computing) to lag