solitude; loneliness; isolation
kitchen maid; kitchen duties; cooking
innate ability; innate talent; natural gift
(TV) comedian; performer (esp. of a traditional art); entertainer; talented person; accomplished person
to descend; to stoop; to degrade oneself; to be reduced to
unfortunately; regrettably; sad to say
to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as); to claim to be; to call oneself; to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being
dancing; dance; iteration mark (used to represent repetition of the previous character); Bon Festival dance; Lantern Festival dance; eating live seafood (e.g. squid, ice gobies) while it is still moving; soft spot (in the skull of an infant)
painful; heartrending; trying; oppressive; suffocating; miserable
to hide; to keep to oneself
the last moment; the very end
anywhere; for all time; through thick and thin; come hell or high water; persistently; stubbornly
sublimation; sublimation (of an impulse); sublimation (i.e. transforming into a purer or nobler form)
dizzily; giddily; spinning; boiling up
scene; setting; scene (in a movie, play); shot; state of the market
picture; drawing; painting; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage
model; dummy; model (profession); fashion model; model (of a vehicle, machine, etc.); version; model (e.g. mathematical)
frost; white hair; grey hair; gray hair
manner; way; appearance; air; custom; convention; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
to freeze (to something); to be frozen (to); to freeze hard; to freeze completely
needle; pin; hook; stinger; thorn; hand (e.g. clock, etc.); pointer
to hit; to expose; to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class); to guess (an answer)
cry (of an animal); call; chirp; song; caw; roar
blue; azure; green; pale (facial color); gray; unripe
star (usu. excluding the Sun); planet (usu. excluding Earth); star (glyph, symbol, shape); asterisk; star (actor, player, etc.); dot; spot
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
Blood Pond; pool of blood; pond of blood (in hell)
and; and then; thus; and now; and finally
unnatural; affected; studied; forced
kidnapping; kidnaping; abduction; kidnapper; kidnaper; abductor
high steward; grand master
impudent; shameless; brazen; forward; audacious; cheeky
3 o'clock; afternoon snack (eaten around 3 o'clock); three ages of Buddhism (following the death of Gautama Buddha; age of the true law, age of the copied law, and age of the degeneration of the law); three ages of the dharma
to paint a picture; to draw a picture
tea (esp. green or barley); tea break; teatime; tea ceremony
to peep (through); to peek; to await (one's chance); to guess; to infer
to say to each other; to exchange (jokes, comments, etc.); to quarrel; to dispute