- vital part; (fig.) key point; crucial
- to be bound to; undoubtedly will
- self-esteem; self-reliance; overconfident; conceited
- life (a person's whole life); in one's entire life
- (literary) lost or nearly lost body of knowledge; (literary) consummate mastery (in a field); (wuxia) supreme technique
- texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up
- strange; weird; eccentric; bizarre
- to bellow; to rave; to snarl
- an unforeseen event; accident; misfortune
- important; urgent
- sound of the wind blowing or rain falling
- ignorant; ignorance
- 小儿 xiǎo ér: 小儿 xiao3 er2: young child; (humble) my son小儿 xiǎo r: 小儿 xiao3 r5: (coll.) early childhood; (coll.) baby boy
- lit. to acknowledge the bandit as one's father (idiom); fig. a complete betrayal; to sell oneself to the enemy
- words; speech; to say; to talk
- eighty percent; most probably; most likely
- to believe; to be convinced; to accept as true
- letter; mail; CL:封[feng1]; to trust; to believe; to profess faith in; truthful; confidence; trust; at will; at random
- clothing; unlined garment
- shabby
- across one's whole face
- windblown dust; hardships of travel; vicissitudes of life; prostitution
- abundance
- (literary) elegant; graceful; refined
- see 天壤之別|天壤之别[tian1 rang3 zhi1 bie2]
- don't tell me ...; could it be that...?
- 舍 shě: 舍 she3: to give up; to abandon; to give alms舍 shè: 舍 she4: (bound form) residence; house; (bound form) my (in speaking of relatives younger than oneself, as in 舍妹[she4 mei4]); (archaic) unit of distance equal to 30 li 里[li3]舍 Shè: 舍 She4: surname She
- glory, splendor, wealth and rank (idiom); high position and great wealth
- poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly
- man; fellow; (dialect) husband
- to roam far and wide; to drift with the wind
- lie; false words; nonsense; CL:篇[pian1]
- to obstinately persist in going about things the wrong way (idiom)
- domestic animal; brute; bastard
- master and disciple
- 更 gēng: 更 geng1: to change or replace; to experience; one of the five two-hour periods into which the night was formerly divided; watch (e.g. of a sentry or guard)更 gèng: 更 geng4: more; even more; further; still; still more
- to speak; words
- to advise against; to dissuade