- quiet; making little or no noise; surreptitious; stealthy; anxious; worried; Taiwan pr. [qiao3qiao3]
- stunned; amazed
- to withdraw from the fray and live in seclusion; to retire
- painting and calligraphy
- to amuse oneself
- can't compare with
- classifier for affairs, events etc
- antiphon (i.e. solo voice answered by chorus); sung reply (in agreement with first voice); to reply with a poem in the same rhythm
- child; kid (used to refer to a child, or by an adult to address a child, or, in Taiwan, to refer to sb's own child)
- (idiom) to fall out with sb; to become enemies
- pit; hollow; depression; (mining) pit; shaft; tunnel; (literary) to bury alive; (coll.) to cheat; to scam; to screw over
- grieved; sorrowful
- 吊 diào: 吊 diao4: to suspend; to hang up; to hang a person吊 diào: 吊 diao4: a string of 100 cash (arch.); to lament; to condole with
- Peiping or Beiping (name of Beijing at different periods, esp. 1928-1949)
- 祭 jì: 祭 ji4: to offer a sacrifice to (gods or ancestors); (in classical novels) to recite an incantation to activate a magic weapon; to wield (sth magic); (bound form) ceremony; (Tw) (bound form) (celebratory) festival祭 Zhài: 祭 Zhai4: surname Zhai
- to flow; to disseminate; to circulate or spread; to move or drift; to degenerate; to banish or send into exile; stream of water or sth resembling one; class, rate or grade
- disharmony; to become estranged
- triangle
- one stumble, unable to rise (idiom); a setback leading to total collapse; ruined at a stroke; unable to recover after a minor hitch
- only child; sole scion
- upright and outstanding
- super-; ultra-; hyper-
- bean vermicelli; mung bean starch noodles; cellophane noodles; fan; enthusiast for sb or sth (loanword from "fans")
- lit. like the sun at noon (idiom); fig. to be at the peak of one's power, career etc
- Zhejiang Province, capital Hangzhou 杭州市[Hang2 zhou1 Shi4] (short name 浙[Zhe4])
- envelope; case; letter
- see 杭州市[Hang2 zhou1 Shi4]
- (literary) to induce; to entice
- to submerge; to infiltrate; to steal into
- older male cousin through a female relative
- to stay for a long time
- to leave a country or region; outbound (tourism)
- piglet; (old) exploited Chinese laborer tricked into working abroad
- Chen Jiongming (1878-1933), a leading warlord of Guangdong faction, defeated in 1925 and fled to Hong Kong
- attack from two sides; pincer movement; converging attack; attack on a flank; fork in chess, with one piece making two attacks
- provincial capital