- to merge with; interlinking; to join with; to interlock
- attitude; posture; stance
- to defeat; to overpower; to beat; to be defeated
- supplier; vendor
- on the up; currently winning; rising (in popularity etc)
- willow tree; poplar and willow; name of traditional tune
- delicate as a flower, refined as a precious jade (idiom); (of a woman) exquisite
- one's bosom (the seat of emotions); breast; broad-minded and open; to think about; to cherish
- great goal; magnificent aspiration
- lower bound
- everything
- lit. an easy drive on a familiar path (idiom); fig. experience makes progress easy; a task that is so familiar one can do it with one's hand tied behind one's back
- to understand; to know; to comprehend
- soft; flexible; supple; yielding; rho (Greek letter Ρρ)
- practiced; proficient; skilled; skillful
- lit. flowers in a mirror and the moon reflected in the lake (idiom); fig. an unrealistic rosy view; viewing things through rose-tinted spectacles; also written 水月鏡花|水月镜花
- scar; traces
- boundary; state; realm
- to release; to set free; to liberate (a prisoner); to discharge
- to be a good fit; to be identical with; to adjust oneself to; to fit in
- young successor; seedling; sapling
- progress; improvement; to improve; to progress
- 复 fù: 复 fu4: to go and return; to return; to resume; to return to a normal or original state; to repeat; again; to recover; to restore; to turn over; to reply; to answer; to reply to a letter; to retaliate; to carry out复 fù: 复 fu4: to repeat; to double; to overlap; complex (not simple); compound; composite; double; diplo-; duplicate; overlapping; to duplicate复 fù: 复 fu4: to reply to a letter
- General Lü Meng 呂蒙|吕蒙 of the southern state of Wu (idiom); model of self-improvement by diligent study (from unlettered soldier to top strategist of Wu)
- young disciple (of the same master); younger or junior male schoolmate
- one's close relatives
- to miss; to remember with longing; to long to see again
- (of a slave or servant) to be given one's freedom; (of a prostitute) to marry and leave one's trade
- to enclose; to cover with the hand (one's eyes, nose or ears); to cover up (an affair); contrary; to contradict
- 溜 līu: 溜 liu1: to slip away; to escape in stealth; to skate溜 lìu: 溜 liu4: swift current; rapids; (dialect) (of speech, actions etc) skilled; proficient; (of movements) quick; speedy; (bound form) rain runoff from a roof; (bound form) roof gutter; classifier for rows, lines etc; surroundings; neighborhood; (dialect) to practice; (dialect) to plaster; to fill in the cracks (with cement, lime plaster etc)
- to bless and protect; blessing
- stripe
- completely naked; stark naked
- to sneer at sb; to ridicule
- to turn over (when lying); (fig.) to free oneself; to emancipate oneself; to bring about a change of one's fortunes
- to pass on a song