- taste; flavor; feeling
- local
- sound; voice; tone; noise; reputation; classifier for sounds
- the whole journey; all the way; going the same way; going in the same direction; of the same kind
- 暗 àn: 暗 an4: dark; to turn dark; secret; hidden; (literary) confused; ignorant暗 àn: 暗 an4: (literary) to close (a door); to eclipse
- to learn a skill or art
- essence; extract; vitality; energy; semen; sperm; mythical goblin spirit; highly perfected; elite; the pick of sth; proficient (refined ability); extremely (fine); selected rice (archaic)
- 遇 Yù: 遇 Yu4: surname Yu遇 yù: 遇 yu4: (bound form) to encounter; to happen upon; to meet unplanned; (bound form) to treat; to receive
- a good chance; a golden opportunity
- to run away; to escape
- to enter; to step into
- inside; inner; internal; within; interior
- 吐 tǔ: 吐 tu3: to spit; to send out (silk from a silkworm, bolls from cotton flowers etc); to say; to pour out (one's grievances)吐 tù: 吐 tu4: to vomit; to throw up
- beach; shoal; rapids; CL:片[pian4]; classifier for liquids: pool, puddle
- 血 xiě: 血 xie3: see 血[xue4]血 xuè: 血 xue4: blood; colloquial pr. [xie3]; CL:滴[di1],片[pian4]
- a good deal of; quite a lot
- to gasp for breath; to take a breather
- to drink (alcohol)
- to feel embarrassed or awkward; to make things difficult (for someone); to find things difficult (to do or manage)
- wine (esp. rice wine); liquor; spirits; alcoholic beverage; CL:杯[bei1],瓶[ping2],罐[guan4],桶[tong3],缸[gang1]
- to answer; to respond; to answer positively; to agree; to accept; to promise
- to comfort; to console
- to be in the way; to be a hindrance; (usu. in the negative) to be of consequence; to matter
- to change; to become different; to transform; to vary; rebellion
- to cry; to weep
- teardrop; tears
- top quality; front ranking
- to endure; to put up with; to exercise patience
- 伏 fú: 伏 fu2: to lean over; to fall (go down); to hide (in ambush); to conceal oneself; to lie low; hottest days of summer; to submit; to concede defeat; to overcome; to subdue; volt伏 Fú: 伏 Fu2: surname Fu
- embrace; bosom
- to sob loudly; to bawl
- lit. warp and weft in weaving; vertically and horizontal; length and breadth; criss-crossed; able to move unhindered; abbr. for 合縱連橫|合纵连横[He2 zong4 Lian2 heng2], School of Diplomacy during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
- rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2]); (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde; (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
- to make friends with
- a rank growth of grass; uncultivated land; wilderness
- hero; towering figure
- always; at all times; never (if used in negative sentence)
- married woman
- to toss and turn (sleeplessly); again and again