- to advance; in advance; beforehand; to prepare
- bright; clear; obvious; forthright; open-minded; bright and cheerful
- to promote to a higher position
- cause; reason; karma; fate; predestined affinity; margin; hem; edge; along
- all ages
- to prove a point; to expound on; to demonstrate or prove (through argument); proof
- standard; norm; specification
- a real person; Daoist spiritual master
- foreshadowing (literary device); foretaste of material to come (in an essay or story)
- calyx of a flower
- crying tears of joy (idiom)
- to save from damage; to preserve; to maintain; to keep in good repair; (Tw) security guard
- to be pleased beyond one's expectations (idiom); overjoyed at the turn of events
- indisputable statement; unalterable truth
- old friend; (slang) period; menstruation
- careful; cautious
- hole; opening; cut; gap; gash; my husband or wife; classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc); precedent
- to support (a cause)
- to abdicate
- to threaten; to blackmail
- to compromise; to take the middle road; a trade-off; eclectic
- to allow; to grant; to permit
- to recognize sth after the event; posthumous recognition; to ratify; to endorse retroactively
- parentheses; brackets
- biological father; real dad
- not to overlook, nor spare (idiom); unwilling to forgive; to treat severely without listening to excuses
- custom-made; made-to-order; to have sth custom made
- intern (esp. a student in practical training)
- 蹬 dēng: 蹬 deng1: to step on; to tread on; to put on; to wear (shoes, trousers etc); (slang) to dump (sb); Taiwan pr. [deng4]蹬 dèng: 蹬 deng4: used in 蹭蹬[ceng4 deng4]
- not to care
- to rise abruptly (to a towering position); to tower over; to spring up; to emerge suddenly; the emergence (e.g. of a power)
- haggard; sad; downcast; distressed
- to fight; to combat; to seize; (of heart) to beat
- to approve; to endorse; (literary) to assist