- pedantic; trite; inflexible; adherence to old ideas
- open and candid (idiom); straightforward and upright
- a manly man; a man of character
- (usu. pejorative) conduct; behavior; act; path; trail
- gentle and soft; tender; sweet (commonly used to describe a girl or woman)
- sage; the Sage (i.e. Confucius); (old) (respectful way of addressing a monarch) your sagacious majesty; (religion) saint
- loud voice; in a loud voice; loudly
- pain; anguish; suffering
- unhappy; in low spirits; (of a knife) not sharp
- to act recklessly (idiom)
- to suffer; fig. reluctantly
- lower lip
- (lit. and fig.) summit; peak; extremely; utterly
- stage; degree (to which a situation has evolved); a (usu. bad) situation; leeway
- lit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom); fig. helpless in the face of a crisis
- 沙 Shā: 沙 Sha1: surname Sha沙 shā: 沙 sha1: granule; hoarse; raspy; sand; powder; CL:粒[li4]; abbr. for Tsar or Tsarist Russia沙 shà: 沙 sha4: (dialect) to sift; to sieve
- to mention; to bring up; (lit. and fig.) to lift; to raise; to initiate (legal proceedings)
- shoe
- 拾 shí: 拾 shi2: to pick up; to collate or arrange; ten (banker's anti-fraud numeral)拾 shè: 拾 she4: to ascend in light steps
- 涨 zhàng: 涨 zhang4: to swell; to distend涨 zhǎng: 涨 zhang3: to rise (of prices, rivers)
- to flood; to submerge; to drown; to irritate the skin (of liquids); to delay
- early; morning; Good morning!; long ago; prematurely
- other people; others; other person
- assistance; a helping hand; to lend a hand
- useful; fitting
- to open one's eyes wide; to stare; to glare (at sb); to scowl
- 家 jiā: 家 jia1: used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1 huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1 ju4]家 jiā: 家 jia1: home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to reach great heights (in technical skills or scholastic achievements)
- plus; to put in; to add; to add on; to add into; in addition; on top of that
- four; 4
- to push open (a gate etc); to push away; to reject; to decline
- at a loss; unable to do anything about it; to have no choice
- to be annoyed; to get angry
- providence; the Will of Heaven
- chivalrous; chivalry; knight-errantry
- to injure; to wound; to damage