- behavior; moral conduct
- deeply grateful
- to distinguish; to recognize
- known by everyone (idiom); well known; a household name
- non-aggression
- stagnation; at a standstill; bogged down
- to remedy
- who would have thought?; who could have imagined?; unexpectedly
- to expect; to anticipate
- to carry; to take away
- to investigate; to study
- one's whole life; throughout one's life
- character; intrinsic quality (of a person); quality (of a product or service, or as in "quality of life", "air quality" etc)
- to gain nothing; to end up empty-handed
- 买卖 mǎi mai: 买卖 mai3 mai5: purchase and sale; transaction; shop; store买卖 mǎi mài: 买卖 mai3 mai4: to buy and sell
- to surge up; to rise; (of tensions etc) to run high
- slack; lazy; remiss
- (coll.) to slink off
- to count on; to rely on
- general headquarters
- stake (in a gamble); (what is at) stake
- (fig.) to dream of; dream
- to sigh; to gasp (in admiration)
- a transition (stop and change) in spoken sound, music or in brush strokes; a cadence; punctuated by a transition; with syncopated cadence (brush stroke in painting)
- unofficial; informal
- to set sth upright or straight; to promote an employee from part-time to full-time (or from deputy to principal); (old) to raise from concubine to wife status
- see 耍滑[shua3 hua2]
- to pay out of one's own pocket; to dig into one's pocket
- to shrink (in the wash); fig. to shrink (of profits etc)
- to rejoice; to be glad
- foresight
- to take care of; to sort out; to manage; to put in order
- next time
- meticulous planning and careful accounting (idiom)
- waist purse (old); (fig.) purse; pocket; waist pack; fanny pack; bum bag