- 渐 jiān: 渐 jian1: to imbue渐 jiàn: 渐 jian4: gradual; gradually
- one's life experience; one's lot; one's past history
- to live alone; to spend time alone (or with a significant other)
- reverie; daydream; to be lost in wild and fanciful thoughts
- to appear; to emerge; to surface
- (literary) to feel apologetic; to feel guilty
- light; radiance; (fig.) bright (prospects etc); openhearted
- second (i.e. number two); second time; twice; (math.) quadratic (of degree two)
- third year in junior middle school
- serious illness
- to take medicine
- to give or get an injection
- lifelong; all one's life; marriage
- alma mater
- to raise; to hold up; to lift up
- eyes brimming with tears of excitement (idiom); extremely moved
- (bound form) eye socket; Taiwan pr. [kuang1]
- to determine; to resolve
- to lie rigid and motionless
- without restraint; unbridled; reckless
- infatuated; obsessed
- 休 Xīu: 休 Xiu1: surname Xiu休 xīu: 休 xiu1: to rest; to stop doing sth for a period of time; to cease; (imperative) don't
- older male cousin through a female relative
- senior
- White Terror
- lit. to appear and disappear unpredictably like a spirit or a ghost (idiom); fig. elusive
- certainly; must; will; necessarily
- 须 xū: 须 xu1: must; to have to; to wait须 xū: 须 xu1: beard; mustache; feeler (of an insect etc); tassel
- (idiom) to sit side-by-side and have a heart-to-heart talk
- 武功 Wǔ gōng: 武功 Wu3 gong1: see 武功縣|武功县[Wu3 gong1 Xian4]武功 wǔ gōng: 武功 wu3 gong1: martial art; military accomplishments; (Peking opera) martial arts feats
- military skill or technique (in former times); all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development); self-defense; tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage); also called kungfu 功夫; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- expert; past master; dab hand
- to have a style of one's own