- to become damaged
- 吉利 Jí lì: 吉利 Ji2 li4: Geely, Chinese car make吉利 jí lì: 吉利 ji2 li4: auspicious; lucky; propitious
- disaster; calamity
- to cure ills with poison (TCM); to fight evil with evil; set a thief to catch a thief; to fight fire with fire
- Nanyue district of Hengyang city 衡陽市|衡阳市[Heng2 yang2 shi4], Hunan; Mt Heng 衡山 in Hunan, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4]
- positive (electric.); sun; male principle (Taoism); Yang, opposite: 陰|阴[yin1]
- to assign; to appoint; assignment
- heir; successor
- unexpected misfortune; unexpected accident; sudden death
- to inherit; to succeed to (the throne etc); to carry on (a tradition etc)
- to bother; to trouble; (polite expression of appreciation for time taken to hear, help or host the speaker) sorry to have bothered you; thank you for your time
- to work hard; to toil
- 碌 lù: 碌 lu4: used in 勞碌|劳碌[lao2 lu4], 忙碌[mang2 lu4] and 碌碌[lu4 lu4]; used in 庸碌[yong1 lu4] and 碌碌[lu4 lu4]; used in 骨碌[gu1 lu5]碌 lìu: 碌 liu4: used in 碌碡[liu4 zhou5]; Taiwan pr. [lu4]
- to rush about; to be constantly on the move
- bend; turn; curve
- hoof; pig's trotters
- (coll.) some day; one of these days
- (bound form) grandmother; (bound form) matron; (bound form) mother-in-law; (slang) femme (in a lesbian relationship)
- to look at one another; to face each other
- bright; fresh and attractive; glamorous; (bound form) amorous; romantic; (literary) to admire; to envy
- affectionate; loving
- handle
- mold; mildew; to become moldy
- to stretch out (one's arms or legs etc)
- to stop; to bar the way
- some; a certain; sb or sth indefinite; such-and-such
- to say clearly; to argue clearly; to pronounce; pronounced
- to become seasick
- (coll.) to be a true friend
- repeatedly (idiom)
- to persevere with; to persist in; to insist on
- 拗 ào: 拗 ao4: (bound form) intractable; contrary; disobedient拗 ǎo: 拗 ao3: (dialect) to twist; to bend (in order to break sth or form it into a shape)拗 nìu: 拗 niu4: stubborn; perverse; contrary
- It's hard to clap with only one hand.; It takes two to tango; It's difficult to achieve anything without support.
- misfortune turns to blessing (idiom); to turn an inauspicious start to good account
- to be called; to be known as
- to change one's tune; to modify one's previous remark; to change the way one addresses sb (as when one marries and starts to call one's husband's parents 爸爸[ba4 ba5] and 媽媽|妈妈[ma1 ma5])
- don't blame (sb)
- model; example (for people to follow); (in reference to a person) role model
- to whinny (of a horse); to neigh; to shout
- five viscera of TCM, namely: heart 心[xin1], liver 肝[gan1], spleen 脾[pi2], lungs 肺[fei4] and kidneys 腎|肾[shen4]
- (to vanish) without a trace