- way of eating; how something is eaten; how a dish is prepared; the way a dish is to be cooked
- character; nature; quality; plain; to pawn; pledge; hostage; to question; Taiwan pr. [zhi2]
- work; toil; physical labor; CL:次[ci4]
- 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 go to work; to start work
- to begin work (of a factory or engineering operation); to start a construction job
- barracks; living quarters
- to arrange in order; (math.) permutation
- (idiom) armed; carrying a loaded firearm
- to start rumours and create trouble
- whole body
- purple
- first tone in Mandarin (high, level tone)
- lit. to punch and kick (idiom); to beat up; fig. determined to sort out a problem
- stick; rod
- to enumerate sb's shortcomings; to criticize; to scold; to talk on and on
- foreign devil; term of abuse for Westerners
- ache; pain; sorrow; deeply; thoroughly
- to beg forgiveness
- never; will never
- to re-offend; repeat offender; recidivist
- male; man (Cantonese)
- companion; comrade; fellow
- to take a beating; to come under attack
- (idiom) wordless; silent; taciturn; without speaking
- lunch
- laundry
- huqin; family of Chinese two-stringed fiddles, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and bamboo bow with horsehair bowstring
- to withdraw troops; to retreat
- ration
- pathetic; pitiful
- by chance; as chance would have it
- to delay; to hold up; to waste time; to interfere with
- brow beaded with sweat; perspiring freely
- to confer; to discuss; to engage in talks
- to argue; to reason with sb; to talk sense; to be reasonable
- to circle; to wheel; to go around
- reason; sense
- half of sth