- in a short while; all at once; all of a sudden
- to propose marriage
- to purse; to pucker (up)
- eyebrow; upper margin
- word; statement; speech; lyrics; a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty 宋朝[Song4 chao2] (CL:首[shou3])
- to treat as; to regard as
- thorough; thoroughly; complete
- to persuade; to convince; to talk sb over; Taiwan pr. [shui4 fu2]
- as one wishes; according to one's wishes; at will; voluntary; conscious
- to work; to operate; to revolve; to turn around
- to collapse; to crumble; to fall apart
- faculty of memory; ability to remember
- reason; rationality; rational
- to depend on; to be dependent on
- life or death; fate; no matter what; anyway; for the life of me
- to obtain (a result); to arrive at (a conclusion)
- quagmire
- unity
- as one wishes; as one pleases; at random; negligent; casual; wanton
- to fool; to deceive; to go through the motions
- to avert; to prevent; to avoid; to refrain from
- (old) to report to one's master
- to seek; to look for; to request; to demand; to beseech
- hackneyed; well-worn (phrase etc); same old story; stereotypical fashion
- have no choice or option but to; cannot but; have to; can't help it; can't avoid
- foolish
- 呀 yā: 呀 ya1: ah (used to express surprise); (onom.) creaking呀 ya: 呀 ya5: (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt)
- foolish; stupid; expressionless; blank
- motionless; unable to move
- to leak out; to divulge; to reveal
- 合 hé: 合 he2: to close; to join; to fit; to be equal to; whole; together; round (in battle); conjunction (astronomy); 1st note of pentatonic scale合 gě: 合 ge3: 100 ml; one-tenth of a peck; measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗
- to escape; to evade; to avoid; to shirk
- to hit on someone; to strike up a conversation; to start talking to end an awkward silence or embarrassing situation
- (the space) between the eyebrows
- single-minded; concentrated
- to lean against; to rely on; on the basis of; no matter (how, what etc); proof
- to be derailed; to go off the rails; (fig.) to overstep the bounds; (fig.) to have an extramarital affair