- medicinal effect
- courtier's or minister's form of address for the current Emperor
- imperial concubine
- (bound form) to lie down to sleep or rest; (bound form) bedroom; (bound form) imperial tomb; (literary) to stop; to cease
- (of an object) tapered; (of a voice) high-pitched
- one's eyes; eyeball
- facial features; appearence; physiognomy
- respected; respectable; honorable
- to ascend the throne
- 呼 hū: 呼 hu1: to call; to cry; to shout; to breath out; to exhale呼 hū: 呼 hu1: to shout; to call out
- bad luck; unlucky; calamitous; wretched
- to sympathize with; sympathy
- to be able to withstand; to be able to endure
- firmly; resolutely; without hesitation
- 刑 Xíng: 刑 Xing2: surname Xing刑 xíng: 刑 xing2: punishment; penalty; sentence; torture; corporal punishment
- to liberate; to emancipate; liberation; refers to the Communists' victory over the Nationalists in 1949; CL:次[ci4]
- to pass water; to piss; to urinate; to wee wee
- unable to say
- 挨 ái: 挨 ai2: to suffer; to endure; to pull through (hard times); to delay; to stall; to play for time; to dawdle挨 āi: 挨 ai1: in order; in sequence; close to; adjacent to
- to produce the intended effect; to achieve the desired result
- hard to deal with; hard to get along with
- to change one's tune; to modify one's previous remark; to change the way one addresses sb (as when one marries and starts to call one's husband's parents 爸爸[ba4 ba5] and 媽媽|妈妈[ma1 ma5])
- to understand thoroughly; to see beyond the facade; to see through (sb)
- cage; trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals); fig. bonds (of wrong ideas); shackles (of past misconceptions); to trap; to shackle
- to lose; to throw away; to discard; to cast away
- fluid loaded into a syringe for a hypodermic injection
- as if relieved from a burden (idiom); to have a weight off one's mind
- yelling (sound made by person); barking; braying; roaring (sound made by animals)
- actor; actress; performer
- to join forces; concerted effort; (physics) resultant force
- to screen (a movie); to stage (a play); a screening; a staging
- to fight and kill; to engage in fierce combat (also used figuratively of opposing chess players)
- 幕 mù: 幕 mu4: curtain or screen; canopy or tent; headquarters of a general; act (of a play)幕 mù: 幕 mu4: curtain; screen
- to direct; director (film etc)
- oil paints; lacquer; to paint; CL:層|层[ceng2]