- to shout; to bawl; to yell (to urge on an animal); to hawk (one's wares); to denounce loudly; to shout slogans
- to visit a grave
- life (one's time on earth)
- an ideal; a dream; ideal; perfect
- reputation; fame
- to accuse; to pry
- to twist; crooked; unjust; in vain
- two-character surname Ouyang
- used in 歙縣|歙县[She4 Xian4] (the name of a place in Anhui)
- (idiom) in public; in front of everyone; openly (typically preceded by 在[zai4] and followed by 之下[zhi1 xia4])
- corruption and abuse of the law (idiom); to take bribes and bend the law
- admittedly (it's true that...)
- to be fully aware of; to know perfectly well
- to punish; to administer justice
- to fail in observing or supervising; to miss; to let sth slip through
- to be unable to extricate oneself gracefully; to be put on the spot; to be embarrassed
- desirable; worth having; (of a suggestion etc) commendable; worthy
- at least; (to say the) least
- 葛 Gě: 葛 Ge3: surname Ge葛 gé: 葛 ge2: kudzu (Pueraria lobata); hemp cloth
- to appear to be; to seem as if
- to help others
- actually; in fact
- lifelong; all one's life; marriage
- to brave death
- to press against; to support; to prop up; to resist; to withstand; to be equal to; to match; to balance; to offset; to mortgage; to make up for; to compensate for; to arrive at; to reach; to clap (one's hands) lightly (expressing delight) (Taiwan pr. [zhi3])
- capital offense; crime punishable by death; my deepest apologies
- selfishness; selfish motives
- to abscond; to be absent without leave
- not an exaggeration; not excessive; not wide of the mark
- hidebound by convention (idiom)
- high-sounding speech; bombast; high-profile
- without permission
- to leave one's job temporarily (e.g. for study); to leave one's job; to resign
- to abandon all restraint (idiom)
- to win; to gain
- the wording and purport of what one writes
- (idiom) to bluff; to bluster; to make an empty show of strength
- (idiom) unable to withstand a single blow; to collapse at the first blow
- lit. to quote the classics; to quote chapter and verse (idiom)