- 处 chù: 处 chu4: (bound form) place; locality; (bound form) part; aspect; (bound form) office; department; bureau; classifier for locations: spot, point处 chǔ: 处 chu3: to reside; to live; to dwell; to be in; to be situated at; to stay; to get along with; to be in a position of; to deal with; to discipline; to punish
- to be born; to come into being; to withdraw from worldly affairs
- to engage with secular society; to involve oneself in human affairs; to join the WTO (abbr. for 加入世界貿易組織|加入世界贸易组织[jia1 ru4 Shi4 jie4 Mao4 yi4 Zu3 zhi1])
- lit. fluently saying all one wants (idiom); to preach freely on one's favorite topic; to hold forth to one's heart's content
- habitually silent (idiom); reticent; uncommunicative
- 士 shì: 士 shi4: member of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor; honorific; soldier; noncommissioned officer; specialist worker士 Shì: 士 Shi4: surname Shi
- good fortune; official salary
- happening; instance; reason; cause; intentional; former; old; friend; therefore; hence; (of people) to die, dead
- to return (to)
- 老子 lǎo zi: 老子 lao3 zi5: father; daddy; "I, your father" (in anger, or out of contempt); I (used arrogantly or jocularly)老子 Lǎo zǐ: 老子 Lao3 zi3: Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism; the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經|道德经[Dao4 de2 jing1] by Laozi
- a hundredfold; (fig.) markedly; to increase markedly (transitive or intransitive) (often in reference to abstract attributes)
- (literary) wise; wisdom
- to escape; to evade; to avoid; to shirk
- this life; to lose face; to be disgraced
- to save from damage; to preserve; to maintain; to keep in good repair; (Tw) security guard
- natural instincts; nature; inherent quality
- 乾 qián: 乾 qian2: one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing heaven; male principle; ☰; ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)乾 Qián: 乾 Qian2: surname Qian乾 Gān: 乾 Gan1: surname Gan乾 gān: 乾 gan1: dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder
- divinatory diagram; one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]; one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]
- Classical Chinese
- to worry; to concern oneself with; worried; anxiety; sorrow; (literary) to observe mourning
- rest; to rest
- to cup one's hands in obeisance or greeting; (fig.) submissive
- to keep silent
- (literary) not to speak
- words; expression; what one says
- although; even though
- ambition; wild schemes; careerism
- huge; immense; enormous; gigantic
- thirty; 30
- front; forward; ahead; first; top (followed by a number); future; ago; before; BC (e.g. 前293年); former; formerly
- 国 gúo: 国 guo2: country; nation; state; (bound form) national国 Gúo: 国 Guo2: surname Guo
- to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
- serious fire (in a city or a forest etc)
- left and right; nearby; approximately; attendant; to control; to influence
- to advise; to urge; to try to persuade; to exhort; to console; to soothe
- to hide; to evade; to dodge; to take shelter; to avoid (difficulties)
- married woman
- 义 Yì: 义 Yi4: surname Yi; (Tw) Italy (abbr. for 義大利|义大利[Yi4 da4 li4])义 yì: 义 yi4: justice; righteousness; meaning; foster (father etc); adopted; artificial (tooth, limb etc); relationship; friendship
- 保 bǎo: 保 bao3: to defend; to protect; to keep; to guarantee; to ensure; (old) civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system保 Bǎo: 保 Bao3: Bulgaria (abbr. for 保加利亞|保加利亚[Bao3 jia1 li4 ya4])
- 傅 fù: 傅 fu4: (bound form) instructor; (literary) to instruct; to attach; to apply (makeup etc)傅 Fù: 傅 Fu4: surname Fu
- night
- to be not less than (a certain quantity, amount etc)