- meat that has been cured and air-dried in the cold (esp. during the 12th lunar month)
- in the evening; when night falls; towards evening; at night fall; at dusk
- next door; neighbor
- gladly; cheerfully
- pregnancy; pregnant
- vomit
- sour; tart; sick at heart; grieved; sore; aching; pedantic; impractical; to make sarcastic remarks about sb; an acid
- 吐 tù: 吐 tu4: to vomit; to throw up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)
- to decline (an appointment, invitation etc)
- list of names
- duckweed
- to be like sth; similar to; alike
- (older and younger) sisters; sister (school, city etc)
- a while; a spell; a short time; a burst
- 泡 pāo: 泡 pao1: puffed; swollen; spongy; small lake (esp. in place names); classifier for urine or feces泡 pào: 泡 pao4: bubble; foam; blister; to soak; to steep; to infuse; to dawdle; to loiter; to pick up (a girl); to get off with (a sexual partner); classifier for occurrences of an action; classifier for number of infusions
- hot tea
- to take care of; to raise money; to attend to (guests, customers etc)
- husband
- to eat and drink; food and drink
- younger sibling; younger brother's wife
- to be on friendly terms
- 士 Shì: 士 Shi4: surname Shi士 shì: 士 shi4: member of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor; honorific; soldier; noncommissioned officer; specialist worker
- country folk; rustic; rural folk
- to pay particular attention to; carefully selected for quality; tastefully chosen
- to avoid arousing suspicion
- etiquette; ceremonial rites
- to answer; to respond; to answer positively; to agree; to accept; to promise
- to add; to increase; to replenish
- wood charcoal; coal
- face; CL:張|张[zhang1],個|个[ge4]
- to ask; to inquire
- to provoke; to irritate; to vex; to stir up; to anger; to attract (troubles); to cause (problems)
- to get angry; to be furious; vitality; liveliness
- (coll.) yesterday
- 安 ān: 安 An1: surname An安 ān: 安 an1: (bound form) calm; peaceful; to calm; to set at ease; safe; secure; in good health; content; satisfied (as in 安於|安于[an1 yu2]); to place (sb) in a suitable position (job); to install; to fix; to fit; to bring (a charge against sb); to harbor (certain intentions); ampere (abbr. for 安培[an1 pei2])
- either end of a bridge; a bridgehead
- welcome fall of rain; seasonable rain
- pavilion (usu. two-storied); cabinet (politics); boudoir; woman's chamber; rack; shelf
- teahouse (usu. of two stories)
- to refer to; to speak about; to talk about
- where there's a start, there's a finish (idiom); to finish once one starts sth; to carry things through; I started, so I'll finish.