success in life; getting ahead; successful career; promotion; climbing the corporate ladder; eminence
generation; lifetime; age
riches and honours (honors); wealth and rank
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
I see; that's right; indeed
feeling; sensation; emotion; interjection
to look after; to take care of; to be put in charge of; to be given responsibility for; to withhold (an announcement); to reserve (judgment)
spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
sunset; sundown; end; close; year-end; end of the year
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage
clothes padded with cotton
sleeve; wing (of a stage, desk, gate, etc.)
snivel; nasal mucus; snot
end (e.g. of street); tip; beginning; start; odds and ends; scrap
ringworm (of the scalp); tinea capitis
to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)
illness; disease; bad habit; weakness; fault
child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
to cry; to weep; to sob; to howl
to bark; to howl; to howl (e.g. of the wind); to roar; to yell; to cry
wife (esp. one's own wife); court lady; female court attache; (arch.) woman (esp. as a love interest)
grass used for thatching; sedge used for thatching
shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof
to jump out; to rush out; to appear (suddenly); to protrude; to project; to butt in
sound of footsteps; sense or sign that something is approaching
to be heard; to be audible; to be said to be; to be reputed
opposite side; bottom; rear; back; lining; inside; in the shadows
thicket; bush; grove; (medical) quack
thicket; bush; grove; (medical) quack
bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)
plane; sharpen; whittle; pare; shave (leather); scrape off
point (of a sword, etc.); pointed verbal attack
to paint; to plaster; to lacquer; to varnish; to spread; to smear
tide; current; sea water; opportunity; chance
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
to make something bright; to shine; to polish
daytime; during the day; time from sunrise until sunset; diurnal period
here and there; everywhere
to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to be confused from not knowing what to do
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)
sometimes; occasionally; at times; seasonal; of the season; appropriate (for the season or occasion)
blue; azure; green; pale; gray; unripe