- corridor; veranda; porch
- asleep; sleeping soundly
- (bound form) breast; (bound form) milk; (bound form) newborn; suckling
- old woman
- careless; thoughtless
- hateful
- to entrust a task to sb else
- bulletin board
- to placate; to pacify; to appease
- midnight; in the middle of the night
- 哄 hōng: 哄 hong1: roar of laughter (onom.); hubbub; to roar (as a crowd)哄 hǒng: 哄 hong3: to deceive; to coax; to amuse (a child)哄 hòng: 哄 hong4: tumult; uproar; commotion; disturbance
- adult person
- (idiom) nothing more than this; that's all; no big deal; not very impressive
- able and efficient
- thoughtful; considerate; attentive; thorough; also pr. [zhou1 dao5]
- to initiate; to start; to found
- 察 chá: 察 cha2: to examine; to inquire; to observe; to inspect; to look into; obvious; clearly evident察 Chá: 察 Cha2: short name for Chahar Province 察哈爾|察哈尔[Cha2 ha1 er3]
- to be gratified
- (one's) inner world
- length; accident; mishap; right and wrong; good and bad; merits and demerits
- wound; injury; trauma
- to substitute for; to replace; to supersede
- to treasure; to be very fond of
- to complement; to make up for a deficiency
- to abandon; to discard; to cast away
- Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality 德[de2], physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功
- docile; meek
- scar; bruise
- for fear that; lest; also written 惟恐
- to reappear
- to contrast; to compare; to place side by side for comparison (as parallel texts); to check
- (literary) good-looking; attractive
- (idiom) (of a woman) slender and elegant; (idiom) (of a plant) tall and straight
- school uniform
- upper part of the body; to put on (clothes on the upper body); (of a spirit, disease, misfortune etc) to afflict one; to possess one
- pipa, Chinese lute, with 4 strings, a large pear-shaped body and a fretted fingerboard
- coat; jacket; short and lined coat or robe
- curve; arc
- hem of a skirt; shirt tail