- domain; territory under one's control; foundation of a building; base of operations; crust of earth
- to defeat; to smash; to rout
- (old) itinerant political adviser; (fig.) lobbyist; go-between; mouthpiece; also pr. [shuo1 ke4]
- honey trap; sexual entrapment; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- gradually; slowly; (of branches or hair) softly drooping
- conceited; to take responsibility
- to attract (customers); to drum up (trade)
- popular feeling; the will of the people
- (coll.) to go crazy; to lose it; demented; unhinged
- lie; false words; nonsense; CL:篇[pian1]
- to be put on the spot; to find oneself in an awkward situation
- difficult to understand
- to resent; to harbor a grudge against; to loathe; resentment; rancor
- to pretend; to feign
- to attach importance to sth; to value
- to meet a contingency; to adapt oneself to changes
- rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2]); (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde; (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
- wrinkled; crumpled; unironed
- multicolored; every color under the sun
- mayonnaise
- red pepper paste; chili sauce
- to lose color; to fade; also pr. [diao4 shai3]
- sashimi
- a person's preferences; tastes (in food); flavor
- mixed; miscellaneous; various; to mix
- tomorrow morning; tomorrow
- place; site; location; venue; CL:個|个[ge4]
- (attributive) to be enrolled in a school (or university etc)
- the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]; gossip; gossipy
- cartoon writer (from Japanese mangaka)
- (literary) not to speak
- caricature; cartoon; Japanese manga
- to keep up with; to catch up with; to overtake; to chance upon; in time for
- hidden; potential; latent
- to scare away
- long-distance coach
- poor people; the poor