- (bound form) sunset; dusk; (bound form) evening; night; Taiwan pr. [xi4]
- to lose (sth); to drop (sth); to feel a sense of loss; frustrated; disappointment; loss
- lone; isolated and without help; all alone; solitary
- (idiom) lonely soul; solitary
- (included) in it; among them
- to knock on a door
- letters; mail; news; messages; correspondence
- to inquire into; to ask after
- wife's father, father-in-law
- news of sb's death; sad news
- to frighten; to horrify; to terrify
- misfortune does not come singly (idiom); it never rains but it pours
- plague; pestilence
- (bound form) epidemic; plague
- to die
- female baby
- to be duty bound; to be one's unshirkable responsibility
- adopted daughter
- 妻 qì: 妻 qi4: to marry off (a daughter)妻 qī: 妻 qi1: (bound form) wife
- to run this way and that (idiom); to rush about busily; to bustle about; to hopscotch; also 東跑西顛|东跑西颠[dong1 pao3 xi1 dian1]
- to roam far and wide; to drift with the wind
- flower
- to put oneself out in the public eye (said of sb for whom doing so is deemed unseemly)
- to forge (metal); (fig.) to create; to build; to develop
- 乾 Qián: 乾 Qian2: surname Qian乾 qián: 乾 qian2: one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing heaven; male principle; ☰; ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)乾 gān: 乾 gan1: dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder乾 Gān: 乾 Gan1: surname Gan
- loyal; sincere; sound
- lit. can pass through (an opening); fig. can get by (in life); tolerably well; not too bad; How are you getting by?; How's life?
- perfectly contented (idiom); perfectly satisfied
- 激荡 jī dàng: 激荡 ji1 dang4: to rage; to dash; to surge激荡 jī dàng: 激荡 ji1 dang4: to rage; to dash; to surge; also written 激盪|激荡
- to boil
- to reminisce; to talk about former times
- light; beam of light; gleam of light; light reflected from an object
- to unlock
- to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at
- unable to take one's eyes off (idiom); to gaze steadily; to stare