- blond; blonde; fair-haired
- firm; steady; staunch; resolute
- cohesion; cohesiveness; cohesive
- what one has learned (through experience, reading etc); knowledge; insight; understanding; tips; CL:項|项[xiang4],個|个[ge4]
- textbook; CL:本[ben3]
- source material (in literature and art)
- 绕 rào: 绕 rao4: to wind; to coil (thread); to rotate around; to spiral; to move around; to go round (an obstacle); to by-pass; to make a detour; to confuse; to perplex绕 rào: 绕 rao4: to spiral; to move around; to go round (an obstacle); to by-pass; to make a detour
- circle; ring; (social) circle
- trick; ruse; crafty scheme
- unhurried
- to raise (an issue); to propose; to put forward; to suggest; to post (on a website); to withdraw (cash)
- to compete; competition
- to bow; personally
- (pron) everyone; Ladies and Gentlemen; Sirs
- main course
- to place (food) on the table; to sit down to eat (at the dining table)
- side dish
- swimming; to swim
- meeting; conference; CL:場|场[chang3],屆|届[jie4]
- subtle
- Parsi; Farsi; Persian
- to have the final say; to be the one in charge
- cook
- Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang
- special glory; distinction; rare honor; one's laurels; it's a privilege (to meet you)
- surname Jiang; Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石[Jiang3 Jie4 shi2]
- 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
- where?; wherever; anywhere; somewhere; (used in rhetorical questions) how can ...?; how could ...?
- the back of a chair
- ash; dust; lime; gray; discouraged; dejected
- to brush away; to dust off; brush; duster; CL:把[ba3]
- bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly
- ruins
- roof; topmost part; top (of tree, wall etc); apex
- to subside; to sink; to cave in
- branch line; side road; spur; fig. secondary plot (in a story)
- (mainly used in the negative) in the first place; absolutely; simply
- to attach sb's name to (a role); to go by the title of; nominal; in name only
- straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns
- without concealing anything; to pass away; to die
- deeply worried and sick at heart (idiom)