- cave; cavern
- shadow; umbra
- palace; CL:座[zuo4]
- hole in ice; crevasse
- to apologize
- (idiom) in deadly earnest; deadpan
- peak; summit; height
- (coll.) all right?; OK?
- concentrating one's thoughts and efforts; single-minded; bent on; intently
- attire; clothes; dress
- 陆 Lù: 陆 Lu4: surname Lu陆 lìu: 陆 liu4: six (banker's anti-fraud numeral)陆 lù: 陆 lu4: (bound form) land (as opposed to the sea)
- lonely; secluded
- cloister; temple; monastery; CL:座[zuo4]
- to dislike; to loathe; disagreeable; troublesome; annoying
- to be a vegetarian
- 太湖 Tài hú: 太湖 Tai4 hu2: see 太湖縣|太湖县[Tai4 hu2 Xian4]太湖 Tài Hú: 太湖 Tai4 Hu2: Lake Tai near Wuxi City 無錫|无锡[Wu2 xi1], bordering on Jiangsu and Zhejiang, one of China's largest freshwater lakes
- only; merely; nothing but; no more than; it's just that ...
- unavoidably; can't help; really; rather
- to be at home; (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 出差[chu1 chai1]); (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 出家[chu1 jia1])
- see 江北區|江北区[Jiang1 bei3 Qu1]; Chongqing's main airport
- see 寶應縣|宝应县[Bao3 ying4 Xian4]
- 程 Chéng: 程 Cheng2: surname Cheng程 chéng: 程 cheng2: rule; order; regulations; formula; journey; procedure; sequence
- young lady; miss; (slang) prostitute; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- (courteous) home; residence (not one's own)
- parents of one's daughter-in-law or son-in-law; relatives by marriage
- five phases of Chinese philosophy: wood 木, fire 火, earth 土, metal 金, water 水
- to construct; to build
- to vanish; to be nowhere to be found; unfounded (story)
- rubble; debris
- to stay out of (hot water, trouble, awkward situation etc); to avoid (sb)
- clever; quick-witted
- blushing; embarrassed
- situation; context; setting; environment
- no difficulty is insurmountable if one is sincere (idiom)
- to revolve around; to center on (an issue)