- (idiom) (of siblings, spouses etc) very close to each other; inseparable; devoted to each other
- to treat only the symptoms but not the root cause
- extravagance and waste (idiom)
- cause; factor; cause of formation
- to use one's strength to bully the weak (idiom)
- to partition; to divide up
- distribution according to work
- to form an image; imaging
- scientific experiment
- to esteem; to admire
- lit. to jump into scalding water and plunge into raging fire (idiom); fig. to brave any danger; to go to any lengths (for a noble cause)
- a selfless, helpful person, like the model citizen Lei Feng 雷鋒|雷锋[Lei2 Feng1] (often used to refer to sb in a joking or teasing way)
- 禁 jìn: 禁 jin4: to prohibit; to forbid禁 jīn: 禁 jin1: to endure
- middle-school student; high school student
- trash; refuse; garbage; (coll.) of poor quality; Taiwan pr. [le4 se4]
- one's own wishful thinking
- to knock on a door
- to elect; election; CL:次[ci4],個|个[ge4]
- a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
- (idiom) to appoint people by favoritism; to practice cronyism (or nepotism)
- (idiom) favoritism shown to sb because of the influence of the person's wife or other female relative; (idiom) (by extension) favoritism towards relatives, friends or associates
- unrealistic; impractical
- biology
- blood relationship; genetic relationship; consanguinity
- (literary) straw dog used as a ritual offering in ancient China (treated with reverence during the rite and discarded afterwards)
- Duke Xiang of Song (reigned 650-637 BC), sometimes considered one of the Five Hegemons 春秋五霸
- lit. defeated, the ground blanketed with bodies (idiom); fig. to suffer a crushing defeat
- Mao Zedong (1893–1976), leader of the Chinese Communist Party 1935–1976
- to sneer at sb; to ridicule
- stupid swine; idiot
- states of south China in different historical periods; proverbially perpetual arch-enemies
- to contend for hegemony; a power struggle