- to puncture; to pierce
- chastity; virginity (of women); moral integrity (of men); loyalty; constancy
- to make a serious mistake (idiom)
- thread; string; wire; line; CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3],根[gen1]; (after a number) tier (unofficial ranking of a Chinese city)
- with a sudden shock, bang etc
- ordinary man; ignorant person; coarse fellow
- (idiom) from a great distance; (to come) from afar
- stool; small seat
- furniture; CL:件[jian4],套[tao4]
- a sound; a noise; musical pipe with 3 reeds
- tears falling like rain (idiom)
- imperial physician
- to meet; to get together
- the full amount; to fulfill the quota
- unequalled; without rival; a paragon
- passed on from generation to generation (idiom); to hand down
- nineteen; 19
- generally speaking; by and large; for the most part
- for many generations; generation; era; age
- proficient (in sth); to understand sth through and through
- a decade of a century (e.g. the Sixties); age; era; period; CL:個|个[ge4]
- long-time; long-term; lasting; enduring; permanent; for a long time
- 杆子 gān zi: 杆子 gan1 zi5: pole杆子 gǎn zi: 杆子 gan3 zi5: pole; stick; club; gang of bandits
- rotten
- outdoors; outside
- lit. to climb over the wall; fig. to breach the Great Firewall of China
- mythological sea turtle
- to offend Heaven and reason (idiom); bloody atrocities that cry to heaven; outrageous acts
- scum of a community; degenerate
- to drag; to pull; to raise a child (through difficulties); to help; to support; to drag in; to chat
- at first; in the beginning