- committee; commission
- to inspire; to incite
- to keep hidden; to keep in one's private possession; secret store; stash
- in fact; in reality; as a matter of fact; in practice
- a deliberate show of strength as a warning
- one's conduct and deeds
- (idiom) to turn a blind eye to; to ignore
- seat of government; government repository (archive); official residence; mansion; presidential palace; (honorific) Your home; prefecture (from Tang to Qing times)
- disturbance; incident
- (respectful) lord; master; (coll.) maternal grandfather
- coda; epilogue; end
- outer; excluded
- that very night; through the night; for several nights in a row
- third party
- grieved; sorrowful
- to brush past
- to eavesdrop; to monitor (secretly)
- hearing; listening ability
- cute; adorable; charming (loanword from Japanese)
- (of a girl) to feign anger coquettishly
- to harvest; to reap; to gain; crop; harvest; profit; gain; bonus; reward
- legendary; fantasy saga; romance; short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty
- (after a noun N and before a predicate P) the reason why N P; Example: 我之所以討厭他|我之所以讨厌他[wo3 zhi1 suo3 yi3 tao3 yan4 ta1] "the reason why I dislike him (is ...)"
- calm; cool-headed; dispassionate; (of a place) deserted; quiet
- waist; small of the back; (fig.) backing
- early or late; first and last; priority; in succession; one after another
- to escort (goods or funds); to convey under guard
- to work hard; to do one's very best; to throw oneself into the task at hand
- used in expressions that convey frustration and futility, such as 無奈|无奈[wu2 nai4] and 莫可奈何|莫可奈何[mo4 ke3 nai4 he2] (literary); used for its phonetic value in writing foreign words
- administrative subdivision
- Kyoto (prefecture in Japan)
- Osaka Prefecture, Japan
- picture scroll
- (traditional Chinese architecture) spirit wall – a screen wall placed inside or outside a main gate, shielding the courtyard from view
- one and only (idiom); rarely seen; unique of its kind
- (art) painter