- thunder and lightning
- 劈 pī: 劈 pi1: to hack; to chop; to split open; (of lightning) to strike劈 pǐ: 劈 pi3: to split in two; to divide
- to put one's palms together (in prayer or greeting)
- thunder
- to rain
- capable; competent
- to invite; to provoke; to demand or ask for; to send armed forces to suppress; to denounce or condemn; to marry (a woman); to discuss or study
- 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
- to part forever; eternal parting (i.e. death)
- (idiom) may never meet again; unlikely to meet again
- younger sister; young woman; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to attend to; to care for (patients etc); to look after; to wait upon; to serve; also written 伏侍, see also 服事[fu2 shi4]
- to say goodbye; to bid farewell; to pay a farewell call
- 祝 Zhù: 祝 Zhu4: surname Zhu祝 zhù: 祝 zhu4: to pray for; to wish (sb bon voyage, happy birthday etc); person who invokes the spirits during sacrificial ceremonies
- without boundary; not bordered
- 尸 shī: 尸 shi1: (literary) person representing the deceased (during burial ceremonies); (literary) to put a corpse on display (after execution)尸 shī: 尸 shi1: (bound form) corpse
- bullshit; nonsense
- 老子 Lǎo zǐ: 老子 Lao3 zi3: Laozi or Lao-tze (c. 500 BC), Chinese philosopher, the founder of Taoism; the sacred book of Daoism, 道德經|道德经[Dao4 de2 jing1] by Laozi老子 lǎo zi: 老子 lao3 zi5: father; daddy; "I, your father" (in anger, or out of contempt); I (used arrogantly or jocularly)
- the trick of injuring oneself to gain the enemy's confidence; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- pattern; way of doing sth; trick; ruse; fancy-style (as in 花樣滑冰|花样滑冰[hua1 yang4 hua2 bing1] figure skating)
- at once; on the spot
- inexpensive; lowly; despicable; (bound form) (humble) my
- (particle used to exaggerate certain adjectives, in particular 神經兮兮|神经兮兮, 髒兮兮|脏兮兮, 可憐兮兮|可怜兮兮, and 慘兮兮|惨兮兮)
- deficiency; lack; scarce; vacant post; to run short of
- (of a man) to dress as a woman (idiom)
- pah!; bah!; pooh!; to spit (in contempt)
- to change color; to discolor; to change countenance; to become angry
- to fear; afraid; extremely nervous; for fear that; to avoid; so as not to
- good and bad; most unfortunate occurrence; in any case; whatever
- menfolk (collective term for men of different generations); husbands and their fathers etc
- to prevent; to block
- to revise; to amend; to rectify
- smiling expression
- gloomy and cold