- to kneel; to go down on one's knees
- livelihood
- to look down upon; to hold in contempt
- (literary) unlike one's parents; degenerate; unworthy
- to conceal; dark
- barrier
- great person of the past; venerable forebear; the great and the good
- to float; superficial; floating; unstable; movable; provisional; temporary; transient; impetuous; hollow; inflated; to exceed; superfluous; excessive; surplus
- one's speaking voice; tone; implication
- see 蘭州市|兰州市[Lan2 zhou1 Shi4]
- clothes
- tantamount to; to be like
- to come to a stop; to halt; to keep one's footing; to stay upright; (fig.) to hold one's ground; to gain a firm foothold; (of an assertion etc) to hold up; to be tenable
- flabbergasted; astonished
- cook; chef
- fairy
- belt; sash; (literary) attire
- official class; intellectual class (idiom)
- both hands
- (old) ceremonial tablet (held by officials at an audience)
- 板 bǎn: 板 ban3: board; plank; plate; shutter; table tennis bat; clappers (music); CL:塊|块[kuai4]; accented beat in Chinese music; hard; stiff; to stop smiling or look serious板 bǎn: 板 ban3: used in 老闆|老板[lao3 ban3]板 pàn: 板 pan4: to catch sight of in a doorway (old)
- look; expression
- to mumble; to mutter to oneself
- to mutter; to feel apprehensive
- to cup one's hands in salute; to surround; to arch; to dig earth with the snout; arched
- to cup one's hands in obeisance or greeting; (fig.) submissive
- guest from afar
- to show disrespect; I'm awfully sorry – please forgive me
- to introduce oneself; originally a theatrical device in which a character explains his own role
- to meet together
- (literary) forehead; (literary) countenance; features
- heroic spirit
- to strut; swaggering
- chairperson; premier; chairman; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- buttocks; bottom; butt; back part
- crooked; askew
- impolite; impropriety; to sexually harass