- river course; river channel
- limpid autumn waters (trad. description of girl's beautiful eyes)
- fuel
- enemy
- acute
- to lie on one's stomach; to lean forward, resting one's upper body (on a desktop etc); (Tw) percent (from Japanese "pā", short for "pāsento")
- prejudice; bias
- to confirm; to verify; confirmation
- to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement
- retirement pension; pension payments received after retirement
- herbal medicine
- 熏 xūn: 熏 xun1: to smoke; to fumigate; to assail the nostrils; to perfume熏 xūn: 熏 xun1: fragrance; warm; to educate; to smoke; to fumigate
- massage; to massage
- 激荡 jī dàng: 激荡 ji1 dang4: to rage; to dash; to surge激荡 jī dàng: 激荡 ji1 dang4: to rage; to dash; to surge; also written 激盪|激荡
- dusk; evening; nightfall
- dawn; daybreak
- military service
- to pry into or spy on; to snoop; to peep; to poke one's nose into; to peer; to get a glimpse of
- Gothic (style in architecture, art, literature etc)
- Catholicism
- to gold-plate; to gild; (fig.) to make sth quite ordinary seem special
- to raise (animals); to bring up (children); to keep (pets); to support; to give birth
- goose; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- clever; witty; intelligent; deft; adroit
- to forage; to hunt for food; to scavenge; fig. to make a living
- urgent; emergency
- lit. seeing clearly the downy feathers of autumn (idiom, from Mencius); fig. perceptive of even the finest detail
- outline; silhouette
- weather-beaten; having experienced the hardships of life
- lathe
- father's father; paternal grandfather