- evil tongue; malicious talk
- relevant; to have to do with; (physics) (of light etc) coherent
- to provide (an asset) as security for a loan; to put up collateral
- lit. the guest acts as host (idiom); fig. to turn from passive to active behavior
- a room in a Buddhist monastery; a temple
- to stop; to cease
- front courtyard; front yard
- popularity; presence of people; liveliness
- nightly
- mistake; slip-up; fault; error; accident; mishap
- devoid of conscience (idiom); utterly heartless
- to bite the hand that feeds one (idiom)
- towards
- Your esteemed father (honorific)
- brilliant student
- to compare
- to spread out; to unfold
- position; status; place; CL:個|个[ge4]
- thoroughfare; passage; pathway; channel
- (idiom) (usu. of behaviors, systems or trends etc) to cause people tremendous harm
- to write from memory
- first; first time; for the first time
- to fight over; to contest; to vie over
- founder or leader of a religion or sect; (fig.) revered figure
- to submit cheerfully; to accept willingly (idiom)
- embryonic period (contrasted with 後天|后天[hou4 tian1]); inborn; innate; natural
- shallow and crude; meager (knowledge or skill)
- active; restless; energetic
- imperial concubine
- to avoid as taboo
- just before parting
- old illness; former affliction
- to exchange; to swap; to switch (telecom); commutative (math); to commute
- worldly affairs; the ways of the world