Vocabulary: 过得刚好
- poor; inadequate; deficient; garrulous
- mercy as the guiding principle (idiom); the Buddhist teaching that nothing is valid except compassion
- convenient; suitable; to facilitate; to make things easy; having money to spare; (euphemism) to relieve oneself
- slave
- (bound form) to decay; to decline; to wane
- disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc; one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy
- how? (emphatic question)
- to fear
- to be scared of dying
- faithful official
- lit. sturdy grass withstands high winds (idiom); fig. strength of character is revealed in a crisis
- (idiom) (of a good outcome) unanticipated; serendipitous; fortuitous
- carp
- high pitch; soprano; treble
- bass
- height; altitude; elevation; high degree; highly; CL:個|个[ge4]
- relatives and friends
- to market; to sell
- to disturb
- 号 háo: 号 hao2: (bound form) to wail; to howl号 hào: 号 hao4: (literary) to call out; to command; (bound form) bugle; trumpet; (bound form) signal; bugle call (e.g. 起床號|起床号[qi3 chuang2 hao4]); (bound form) mark; sign; to mark; to label; to assign a number; (bound form) name; appellation (e.g. 國號|国号[guo2 hao4], 年號|年号[nian2 hao4], 遼寧號|辽宁号[Liao2 ning2 Hao4]); (after a numeral) number designation (e.g. 237號房間|237号房间[er4 san1 qi1 hao4 fang2 jian1] "Room 237"); day of the month (e.g. 七號|七号[qi1 hao4] "the 7th"); (bound form) size; type; category (e.g. 五號電池|五号电池[wu3 hao4 dian4 chi2]); (TCM) to feel (the pulse) (used in 號脈|号脉[hao4 mai4]); classifier for numbered people or items
- (archaic) agate; (bound form) standard weight used with a balance scale; number; (computing) code; (clothing) size; yard (unit of length); (coll.) kilometers per hour (informal misuse of "yard" to mean kph in speed references); (coll.) to pile up; to stack; classifier for matters, items, situations etc (esp. when indicating whether they are the same or different, as in 不是一碼事|不是一码事[bu4 shi4 yi1 ma3 shi4] "not the same thing"); (Tw, HK) (finance) unit of 25 basis points (i.e. a 0.25% change in interest rate)
- to connect; to put through
- stranger
- 口音 kǒu yin: 口音 kou3 yin5: voice; accent口音 kǒu yīn: 口音 kou3 yin1: (linguistics) oral speech sounds
- unfilial
- to hang up (a phone)
- since then; henceforth
- 复 fù: 复 fu4: to go and return; to return; to resume; to return to a normal or original state; to repeat; again; to recover; to restore; to turn over; to reply; to answer; to reply to a letter; to retaliate; to carry out复 fù: 复 fu4: to repeat; to double; to overlap; complex (not simple); compound; composite; double; diplo-; duplicate; overlapping; to duplicate复 fù: 复 fu4: to reply to a letter
- (exclamatory or interrogative particle)
- to wander; to ramble; recreational hiking; to perambulate
- (of clothes) ragged; shabby
- young child
- knee
- to beg; to go begging
- to pity
- to make an unethical profit; benefits gained from others' conflict
- birds and animals; creature; beast (brutal person)
- to throw oneself at; to pounce on; to devote one's energies; to flap; to flutter; to dab; to pat; to bend over
- to be alarmed; to be terrified