- sensational effect; wild reaction
- (literary) miserly; stingy
- miser; scrooge
- stingy; mean; miserly
- beautiful; enchanting
- aged
- a sound; a noise; musical pipe with 3 reeds
- an accounts office (in former times); an accountant; a cashier
- second wife (of a widower)
- lit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom); fig. helpless in the face of a crisis
- love will find a way (idiom)
- share certificate; stock (finance)
- overjoyed at unexpected good news (idiom)
- to fall in price
- to play the leading role; to star; lead actor
- to exchange (sth) for (sth else); to replace with; to convert into
- the press; journalistic circles; the journalists
- lit. to graft flowers onto a tree (idiom); fig. to surreptitiously substitute one thing for another
- pavilions and kiosks (in Chinese gardens)
- winding corridor; cloister; ambulatory (covered walkway around a cloister)
- to claim credit for oneself
- stage play
- scallion; green onion
- sunny and cloudless
- 悠闲 yōu xián: 悠闲 you1 xian2: leisurely悠闲 yōu xián: 悠闲 you1 xian2: leisurely; carefree; relaxed
- rhyme and tone; intonation
- to blend into one another; to blend together well
- designer; architect (of a project)
- to crystallize; crystallization; crystal; crystalline; (fig.) the fruit (of labor etc)
- to fiddle with; to play and move sth about; to show off (what one can do); to parade (one's capabilities); to cause trouble
- to stand for a long time
- ladder; staircase; escalator
- rank or step; stairs