- to make a living
- to chant; to recite; verse; song (often used in titles of classical poems); (literary) to lament; to groan; (bound form) (in poetry) the cry of certain animals and insects; (music) rapid vibrato (technique for playing the guqin 古琴[gu3 qin2]) (cf. 猱[nao2], wide vibrato)
- poem; CL:本[ben3],首[shou3],段[duan4]
- yellow flowers (of various types); chrysanthemum; cauliflower; (yellow) daylily; a young virgin (boy or girl)
- long time ago; distant; far away
- carotid artery (medicine)
- fox; (fig.) sly or crafty person
- phenomenon; CL:個|个[ge4],種|种[zhong3]; appearance
- (interj) boo hoo
- (onom.) for humming or whimpering
- to breathe in; to suck in; to inhale
- raw silk; white; plain, unadorned; vegetarian (food); essence; nature; element; constituent; usually; always; ever
- filial piety or obedience; mourning apparel
- to have as a feature or characteristic; to have an element of (confidence, sweetness, malevolence etc); to carry (a pathogen, connotation etc)
- to defect
- to erase; to cover traces; to obliterate evidence; to expunge; to blot out; to suppress
- (of a half-sibling) having the same father but different mother
- to collect or retrieve a corpse (for burial or cremation); to claim a body
- face; prestige
- to have a close call; to have a narrow escape
- to put one's palms together (in prayer or greeting)
- to brave death
- to bend; bent; a bend; a turn (in a road etc); CL:道[dao4]
- coarse; crude (in one's manner); boorish
- to charge forward
- inflamed; red and swollen
- to insulate thermally; insulating (material, effect etc)
- in the final analysis; in the end
- with one's hands clasped behind one's back
- to blush; to redden (with shame, indignation etc)
- shoulder; scapular region; scapula
- to burn; to scorch; burned; burning; scorched; charred
- hair ends
- to bend to a task and spare no effort (idiom); striving to the utmost
- to glimpse
- shut up; shut your mouth; stop talking
- to confuse (fail to differentiate)
- safflower (Carthamus tinctorius)
- pedal