- concubine; I, your servant (deprecatory self-reference for women)
- to offer (tribute); to present respectfully (to superior, ancestor, deity etc); to esteem; to revere; to believe in (a religion); to wait upon; to accept orders (from superior)
- to rear; to bring up; to nurture
- oneself; (attributive) one's own
- to reach adulthood; an adult
- happening; instance; reason; cause; intentional; former; old; friend; therefore; hence; (of people) to die, dead
- to call it...; known as...
- finger; to point at or to; to indicate or refer to; to depend on; to count on; (of hair) to stand on end
- seniority in the family or clan; position in the family hierarchy; Taiwan pr. [bei4fen4]
- generation and age ranking; seniority
- 夫 fú: 夫 fu2: (classical) this, that; he, she, they; (exclamatory final particle); (initial particle, introduces an opinion)夫 fū: 夫 fu1: husband; man; manual worker; conscripted laborer (old)
- 属 shǔ: 属 shu3: category; genus (taxonomy); family members; dependents; to belong to; subordinate to; affiliated with; be born in the year of (one of the 12 animals); to be; to prove to be; to constitute属 zhǔ: 属 zhu3: to join together; to fix one's attention on; to concentrate on
- (classical particle similar to 於|于[yu2]) in; at; from; because; than; (classical final particle similar to 嗎|吗[ma5], 吧[ba5], 呢[ne5], expressing question, doubt or astonishment)
- 妻 qì: 妻 qi4: to marry off (a daughter)妻 qī: 妻 qi1: (bound form) wife
- as if; (just) like; just as; still; yet
- 行 héng: 行 heng2: used in 道行[dao4 heng2]行 xíng: 行 xing2: (bound form) to walk; to go; to travel; (literary) trip; journey; visit; (bound form) temporary; makeshift; (bound form) current; in circulation; (bound form) to do; to perform; capable; competent; all right; OK!; will do; behavior; conduct (Taiwan pr. [xing4]); (literary) about to; soon行 háng: 行 hang2: (bound form) row; line; (bound form) line of business; trade; profession; (bound form) commercial firm; (bound form) to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age); (in data tables) row; (Tw) column; classifier for rows or lines
- children; sons and daughters
- morning and evening; (in reference to sth that is bound to happen) sooner or later; one of these days; (coll.) (this, or that) point of time; (dialect) at some time in the future
- 向 Xiàng: 向 Xiang4: surname Xiang向 xiàng: 向 xiang4: towards; to face; to turn towards; direction; to support; to side with; shortly before; formerly; always; all along; (suffix) suitable for ...; oriented to ...向 xiàng: 向 xiang4: to tend toward; to guide向 xiàng: 向 xiang4: direction; orientation; to face; to turn toward; to; towards; shortly before; formerly
- father and mother; parents
- to pay respects; to wish good health; in Qing times, a specific form of salutation (see also 打千[da3 qian1])
- to say hello to; to send one's regards to
- etiquette
- to make a bed; to lay bedding
- to sleep soundly; (fig.) to rest easy; to be free of worries
- to give one's respects; to send a greeting; (fig.) (coll.) to make offensive reference to (somebody dear to the person to whom one is speaking)
- Classic of Rites
- 曲 qǔ: 曲 qu3: tune; song; CL:支[zhi1]曲 Qū: 曲 Qu1: surname Qu曲 qū: 曲 qu1: bent; crooked; wrong曲 qū: 曲 qu1: fermentation starter; leaven (molds, yeasts or bacteria used in fermenting soy products or brewing etc); Taiwan pr. [qu2]
- ordinary; commonplace; mundane; temporal; of the material world (as opposed to supernatural or immortal levels); every; all; whatever; altogether; gist; outline; note of Chinese musical scale
- 为 wéi: 为 wei2: as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice)为 wèi: 为 wei4: because of; for; to
- 夏 xià: 夏 xia4: summer夏 Xià: 夏 Xia4: the Xia or Hsia dynasty c. 2000 BC; Xia of the Sixteen Kingdoms (407–432); surname Xia
- (literary) cold; cool; chilly
- muddle-headed; twilight; to faint; to lose consciousness
- morning; dawn; daybreak
- (main) hall; large room for a specific purpose; CL:間|间[jian1]; relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family; of the same clan; classifier for classes, lectures etc; classifier for sets of furniture
- portrait; to do a portrait of sb
- 兰 Lán: 兰 Lan2: surname Lan; abbr. for Lanzhou 蘭州|兰州[Lan2 zhou1], Gansu兰 lán: 兰 lan2: orchid (蘭花|兰花 Cymbidium goeringii); fragrant thoroughwort (蘭草|兰草 Eupatorium fortunei); lily magnolia (木蘭|木兰)
- two; 2; (Beijing dialect) stupid
- end; finish
- to end; to die
- 后 hòu: 后 hou4: empress; queen; (archaic) monarch; ruler后 Hòu: 后 Hou4: surname Hou后 hòu: 后 hou4: back; behind; rear; afterwards; after; later; post-
- neighbor
- 假 jià: 假 jia4: vacation假 jiǎ: 假 jia3: fake; false; artificial; to borrow; if; suppose假 gēi: 假 gei1: used in 假掰[gei1 bai1]假 jiǎ: 假 jia3: to borrow
- (bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself