- (dialect) wife; (derog.) woman
- (coll.) wife
- not bad; pretty good; fortunately; luckily
- clean; completely; only; net (income, exports etc); (Chinese opera) painted face male role
- to cause an accident; to make trouble; to get into trouble
- (idiom) in deadly earnest; deadpan
- to enter the emperor's palace; (slang) to go to jail
- appetizer; small side dish; easy job; piece of cake; see also 小菜一碟[xiao3 cai4 yi1 die2]
- to freshen up; to be cautious or vigilant; to watch out; stimulant to enhance mental performance; stay-awake drug; agrypnotic
- to whet the appetite; appetizing; to amuse oneself at sb's expense; to tease
- to applaud; to cheer
- to be between two parties (as in mediation); to be in the middle; to be in between; (page layout) to be centered
- 汤 tāng: 汤 tang1: soup; hot or boiling water; decoction of medicinal herbs; water in which sth has been boiled汤 shāng: 汤 shang1: rushing current汤 Tāng: 汤 Tang1: surname Tang
- to overflow; (literary) excessive
- one's nearest neighbors
- hotel guest; tenant
- child; CL:個|个[ge4]
- character; temperament; disposition; bad temper; CL:股[gu3]
- (idiom) to dismiss sth with a laugh; to laugh it off
- not to mind; unconcerned
- to go out; to leave for another place
- to amuse oneself; to have fun; to go sightseeing; to take a stroll
- (literary) affair; matter; business; (dialect) item; thing; stuff
- 春 chūn: 春 chun1: spring (season); gay; joyful; youthful; love; lust; life春 Chūn: 春 Chun1: surname Chun
- to go up north
- see 杭州市[Hang2 zhou1 Shi4]
- carefree
- Xihu or West lake (place name); West Lake in Hangzhou 杭州, Zhejiang; Xihu or Hsihu township in Miaoli county 苗栗縣|苗栗县[Miao2 li4 xian4], northwest Taiwan
- 欢 huān: 欢 huan1: joyous; happy; pleased欢 huān: 欢 huan1: hubbub; clamor欢 huān: 欢 huan1: a breed of horse
- concerned; troubled; having sth on one's mind
- to provide critical care (to a patient or a diseased plant)
- to go around in circles; to make a detour; (fig.) to beat about the bush