- silk; pure silk
- sensitive; tactful
- to eat; to take food
- to make an (unnecessary) racket (idiom)
- 咽 yān: 咽 yan1: throat; pharynx; narrow pass咽 yè: 咽 ye4: to choke (in crying)咽 yàn: 咽 yan4: to swallow
- muddy; covered in (mud, dust, sweat, blood etc); daubed in
- mustard; wasabi
- impoverished; destitute
- dancing partner
- chart; list; table; register; score (music); spectrum (physics); to set to music
- cheaply-priced; low-cost
- illegitimate son
- to wander about destitute; to be stranded
- outer; excluded
- dance hall
- (zoology) segment (of the body of a worm, centipede etc); (fig.) a part of an integrated whole: aspect (of a project), element (of a policy), sector (of the economy), stage (of a process) etc
- amnesty; general pardon
- to run away; to take to one's heels
- Elvis Presley (1935-1977), US pop singer and film star; transliterated as 埃爾維斯·普雷斯利|埃尔维斯·普雷斯利[Ai1 er3 wei2 si1 · Pu3 lei2 si1 li4]
- to open one's eyes wide; to stare; to glare (at sb); to scowl
- bow tie; loop of a necktie; lavaliere
- wise and virtuous woman; lady
- to dissolve; to resolve (contradictions); to dispel (doubts); to iron out (difficulties); to defuse (conflicts); to neutralize (fears)
- his; her; its; their; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it)
- mound; heap; lump; classifier for small mounds (e.g. animal scat deposits); (of noodles, jiaozi 餃子|饺子[jiao3 zi5] etc) to stick together; to form a clump
- superfluous; unnecessary; surplus
- (theater) curtain
- band; pop group; CL:支[zhi1]
- head; be headed by
- cook
- multitalented
- baton
- to hesitate; (literary) to pace back and forth; (literary) self-satisfied
- overture
- key strength; strong suit; specialty
- without hesitation; resolutely; firmly
- to conform (with); to echo; to correlate well; (linguistics) agreement
- ambition; resolve; backbone; drive; spirit