Vocabulary: 家
- quiet; silent
- 立 Lì: 立 Li4: surname Li立 lì: 立 li4: to stand; to set up; to establish; to lay down; to draw up; at once; immediately
- guardian lion, a lion statue traditionally placed at the entrance of Chinese imperial palaces, imperial tombs, temples etc
- doorway; gate; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 门 Mén: 门 Men2: surname Men门 mén: 门 men2: gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:扇[shan4]); valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure; way to do sth; knack; method; approach; family; household; lineage; (bound form) sect; school; faction (religious or academic); (bound form) class; category; division; phylum; classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc; (suffix) -gate (scandal)
- rare animal; mythical animal; monster
- mouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc); classifier for bites or mouthfuls
- who; also pr. [shui2]
- not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing
- equivalent to; appropriate; considerably; to a certain extent; fairly; quite
- a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age; era; period; CL:個|个[ge4]
- or; either one or the other
- to replace (a worn-out tire etc); to change (one's address etc)
- family name; surname; to be surnamed ...
- secret; private; confidential; clandestine; a secret
- to drop off; to fall off; (of hair, teeth etc) to fall out; to omit (a character when writing)
- 涂 tú: 涂 tu2: to apply (paint etc); to smear; to daub; to blot out; to scribble; to scrawl; (literary) mud; street涂 Tú: 涂 Tu2: surname Tu
- as before; still; to remain the same
- outside (also pr. [wai4 mian5] for this sense); surface; exterior; external appearance
- middle section; middle period; middle area; mid-
- in front of the door
- brothers; comrade
- to come to a stop; to halt; to keep one's footing; to stay upright; (fig.) to hold one's ground; to gain a firm foothold; (of an assertion etc) to hold up; to be tenable
- leather shoes
- stone step
- to rub; to scratch; to wipe; to polish; to apply (lipstick, lotion etc); to brush (past); to shred (a vegetable etc)
- to tremble; to shake out; to reveal; to make it in the world
- large strides
- before; previously
- couple; pair
- to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); (of a line) to be dead; to be worried; to be concerned; (dialect) to make a phone call; to register (at a hospital); to make an appointment (with a doctor); (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam); classifier for sets or clusters of objects
- lantern
- steps; flight of steps; step (over obstacle); fig. way out of an embarrassing situation; bench (geology)
- rectangle
- 木 Mù: 木 Mu4: surname Mu木 mù: 木 mu4: (bound form) tree; (bound form) wood; unresponsive; numb; wooden
- rhyming couplet; pair of lines of verse written vertically down the sides of a doorway; CL:副[fu4],幅[fu2]
- 红 hóng: 红 hong2: red; popular; revolutionary; bonus红 Hóng: 红 Hong2: surname Hong红 gōng: 红 gong1: used in 女紅|女红[nu : 3 gong1]
- paint; lacquer; CL:道[dao4]; to paint (furniture, walls etc)
- base; foundation; bottom
- clerical script; official script (Chinese calligraphic style)