- family; clan
- to grow up
- 倒 dǎo: 倒 dao3: to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow; to change (trains or buses); to move around; to resell at a profit倒 dào: 倒 dao4: to invert; to place upside down or frontside back; to pour out; to tip out; to dump; inverted; upside down; reversed; to go backward; contrary to what one might expect; but; yet
- basic; fundamental; main; elementary
- that's right; sure!; rest assured!; that's good; can't go wrong
- indeed; really; reliable; real; true
- 童子军 Tóng zǐ jūn: 童子军 Tong2 zi3 jun1: Scout (youth organization)童子军 tóng zǐ jūn: 童子军 tong2 zi3 jun1: child soldiers; juvenile militia
- then; at that time; in those days
- bubonic plague; Black Death
- (literary) hard; firm; strong; exactly; precisely; barely; only just; just; only a short while ago
- left to return to unchecked growth; overgrown; grown wild
- cooked rice; CL:碗[wan3]; meal; CL:頓|顿[dun4]; (loanword) fan; devotee
- unlikely to go so far as to; not as bad as
- to starve to death; to be very hungry
- never
- boat; vessel; ship; CL:條|条[tiao2],艘[sou1],隻|只[zhi1]
- 便 biàn: 便 bian4: plain; informal; suitable; convenient; opportune; to urinate or defecate; equivalent to 就[jiu4]: then; in that case; even if; soon afterwards便 pián: 便 pian2: used in 便宜[pian2 yi5]; used in 便便[pian2 pian2]; used in 便嬛[pian2 xuan1]
- 钉 dīng: 钉 ding1: nail; to follow closely; to keep at sb (to do sth)钉 dìng: 钉 ding4: to join things together by fixing them in place at one or more points; to nail; to pin; to staple; to sew on
- fetters; leg-irons
- to prostitute oneself; to sell oneself into slavery
- slave
- luckily; by a fluke
- to run away; to escape
- to drift about; to wander; to roam; nomadic; homeless; unsettled (e.g. population); vagrant
- 比 Bǐ: 比 Bi3: Belgium; Belgian; abbr. for 比利時|比利时[Bi3 li4 shi2]比 bǐ: 比 bi3: to compare; (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun}; ratio; to gesture; (Taiwan pr. [bi4] in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese)
- fate; destiny
- 强 qiáng: 强 qiang2: strong; powerful; better; slightly more than; vigorous; violent; best in their category, e.g. see 百強|百强[bai3 qiang2]强 Qiáng: 强 Qiang2: surname Qiang强 jiàng: 强 jiang4: stubborn; unyielding强 qiǎng: 强 qiang3: to force; to compel; to strive; to make an effort
- waiting anxiously; impatient
- to hope for; to long for; to expect
- elite troops
- to handle; to deal with; to tackle; to get by with; to make do; (dialect) (usu. used in the negative) to get along with (sb)
- beggar
- 无 mó: 无 mo2: used in 南無|南无[na1 mo2]无 wú: 无 wu2: not to have; no; none; not; to lack; un-; -less
- lit. the strength to truss a chicken (idiom); fig. slight physical strength
- girl
- in a fit of pique; in a fury
- to cut short; to break off; to discontinue; to interrupt
- to furnish; to provide; supply (as in supply and demand)
- one after another; in succession; one by one; continuously; diverse; in profusion; numerous and confused; pell-mell
- to sink down to; to be reduced to (sth inferior)
- prostitute
- 祖 Zǔ: 祖 Zu3: surname Zu祖 zǔ: 祖 zu3: ancestor; forefather; grandparents
- (informal) grandma (paternal grandmother); (respectful) mistress of the house; CL:位[wei4]; (coll.) boobies; breasts
- honor and glory; glorious