- tough and durable; tenacious
- courage
- to pursue sth back to its origins; to trace back to the source; to get to the bottom of sth
- have to; cannot but
- to receive; to accept; to suffer; subjected to; to bear; to stand; pleasant; (passive marker); (LGBT) bottom
- 离 chī: 离 chi1: mythical beast (archaic)离 Lí: 离 Li2: surname Li离 lí: 离 li2: to leave; to part from; to be away from; (in giving distances) from; without (sth); independent of; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing fire; ☲
- seldom; rare; hard to come by
- infatuation
- never
- to cover up; to conceal; to mask; to gloss over
- (literary) in love and inseparable
- the whole journey; all the way; going the same way; going in the same direction; of the same kind
- excuse; pretext; entreaties; arguments
- 全 Quán: 全 Quan2: surname Quan全 quán: 全 quan2: all; whole; entire; every; complete
- to change into; to turn into; to become
- to pretend; to use a pretext; to make sth up; to pass oneself off as sb else; to make use of
- word; statement; speech; lyrics; a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty 宋朝[Song4 chao2] (CL:首[shou3])
- prevailing customs (often pejorative); vulgar customs
- see 扳龍附鳳|扳龙附凤[ban1 long2 fu4 feng4]
- rather
- 识 shí: 识 shi2: to know; knowledge; Taiwan pr. [shi4]识 zhì: 识 zhi4: to record; to write a footnote
- 微 Wēi: 微 Wei1: surname Wei; ancient Chinese state near present-day Chongqing; Taiwan pr. [Wei2]微 wēi: 微 wei1: tiny; miniature; slightly; profound; abtruse; to decline; one millionth part of; micro-; Taiwan pr. [wei2]
- to fall in love at first sight (idiom)
- appearance; looks; profile; countenance
- to stay together; to rely on one another
- at that time
- scholar; Confucian
- hometown; native place; CL:個|个[ge4]
- some; a certain; sb or sth indefinite; such-and-such
- Lantern Festival; night of the 15th of the first lunar month; see also 元夜[yuan2 ye4]; sticky rice dumplings
- underripe; (fig.) young and inexperienced
- to serve as; to act as; to play the role of
- 分子 fēn zǐ: 分子 fen1 zi3: (chemistry) molecule; (math.) numerator of a fraction分子 fèn zǐ: 分子 fen4 zi3: member of a class or group; people of a certain type
- to leave (a room etc); to go out through (a door etc)
- study (room)
- to flicker; to flash on and off; to brighten and fade
- colored lantern (used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节)
- to put on a suit of armor; to put on dress; to wear