origin; source; virtuous ancestor
minute; detailed; careful; scrupulous; thorough
fleeting life; this transient world; sad world; world of grief and worry; the world of the living; this life
edition; version; plate; block; counter for editions of a publication
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
dead body; corpse; cadaver; carcass
major festal song (subgenre of the Shi Jing)
temple; shrine; hall; company; (arch.) front room
workshop; studio; atelier
closet (built into the wall, usu. with sliding doors); (built-in) wardrobe
road; path; route; way; distance; journey; road (e.g. to victory)
when; at what time; how soon; normal times; ordinary days
to change; to be transformed; to move to; to be different; to be uncommon
painting or drawing technique
to cut off; to excise; to tear off; to cut out; to whittle down; to tear out
as (it is); remaining (in a state); with (e.g. one's eyes closed, the light on); while (e.g. standing, alive); as (one pleases, one is told, etc.); according to
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
to bury (e.g. in the ground); to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed; to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends
to reel; to wind; to turn (pages); to flip through (a book); to count (e.g. the days); to open one-by-one
(animal) feed; fodder; pet food; bait; lure; enticement
good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable
reason; significance; cause; piece of information that one has heard; I hear that ...; it is said that ...
thickheaded; insensitive; dull; thick-skinned
finally; in the end; at last; in the end; after all; never (happened)
with trouble; at great pains; rare; valuable; kind; generous
torturing to death; tormenting to death
finish; end; completion; result
hour; o'clock; (specified) time; when ...; during ...
ability; capacity; capability; physical strength
answer; reply; response; answer; solution; result
mathematical operation; calculation
expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture
you could say; you might say; verging on the
probably; likely; perhaps; a lot of; much; many
attachment; adhesion; insistence; tenacity; fixation; obsession
to take out; to carry out; to bring out from where it belongs; to mention something; to broach a topic; to bring up (a subject)
to differ; to be different; to disagree; to vary; to diverge
side; edge; beside; while (doing); in addition to; at the same time
to cover (with something)
to bail out (water); to dip out; to ladle out; to start drawing (water)