- rebellious minister
- top floor; attic; loft; garret; penthouse; (flat) rooftop (often used as an outdoor living area etc)
- contingency plan
- paralyzed
- to be absent
- farmhouse; banker (gambling)
- inbox
- to pay respects; to wish good health; in Qing times, a specific form of salutation (see also 打千[da3 qian1])
- neck of a bottle; (fig.) bottleneck; problem that impedes progress
- hangtag; swing tag; hanging sign
- 莎 sūo: 莎 suo1: used in 莎草[suo1 cao3]莎 shā: 莎 sha1: katydid (family Tettigoniidae); phonetic "sha" used in transliteration
- girl; phonetic "ni" (in female names); Taiwan pr. [ni2]
- to move house; to relocate; to remove (sth)
- (of a shop) to close down; to go out of business
- neighborhood; neighbor
- large sum of money; old Chinese type of coin of high denomination
- country or countryside; native place; home village or town; township (PRC administrative unit)
- to see someone off; to throw someone a send-off party
- warmhearted; willing to help others
- neighbor; neighborhood
- reluctant to part (idiom); broken-hearted at having to leave
- Republic of China (1912-1949); used in Taiwan as the name of the calendar era (e.g. 民國六十年|民国六十年 is 1971, the 60th year after 1911)
- in a mess; upside down
- neighbourhood committee
- to scowl and stare down; to defy
- to determine the nature (of sth); to determine the chemical composition (of a substance); qualitative
- my (your etc) old father; polite appellation for an elderly male
- less than, <
- near in time; in the near future; very soon; recent
- barefoot
- to look around
- to cut apart; to sever; to separate; to isolate
- paper
- capital of a country (literary)
- day and night; period of 24 hours; continuously, without stop
- to recite; to repeat from memory