- to lead to
- broad and open road (idiom); fig. brilliant future prospects
- vestige; mark; trace
- first place
- independent and autonomous (idiom); self-determination; to act independently; to maintain control over one's own affairs
- to sublimate; sublimation (physics); to raise to a higher level; to refine; promotion
- to crystallize; crystallization; crystal; crystalline; (fig.) the fruit (of labor etc)
- biological father
- foster father; adoptive father
- (literary) to look disdainfully out of the corner of one's eye; to look askance at
- to cover; to comprise; to include
- blunt; outspoken
- varying from person to person (idiom); different for each individual
- (idiom) to use methods in line with local circumstances
- at worst; if worst comes to worst; (usu. in the negative) serious; alarming
- workers, peasants, and soldiers; the proletariat
- to make up (a story); Taiwan pr. [zou1]
- land west of the Yellow river; Shaanxi, Qinghai and Gansu provinces
- changes; vicissitudes
- boundary
- fast food; snack; quick meal
- subconscious mind
- lower half of one's body; Lower Body (Chinese poetry movement of the early 21st century)
- half a lifetime
- desire
- to urge; to prompt; to spur on; to order sb about
- to stand; to have a footing; to be established; to base oneself on
- to distinguish right and wrong (idiom)
- precision instruments
- (idiom) untainted by even a speck of dust; spotlessly clean; (of a person) honest; incorruptible
- mirror; CL:面[mian4],個|个[ge4]
- discerning eye
- seven emotional states; seven affects of traditional Chinese medical theory and therapy, namely: joy 喜[xi3], anger 怒[nu4], anxiety 憂|忧[you1], thought 思[si1], grief 悲[bei1], fear 恐[kong3], fright 驚|惊[jing1]; seven relations
- to sense; to grasp intuitively