centre; center; middle; capital; seat of government
to catch one's breath; to gulp; to have one's breath taken away; to gasp
blink (of eyes); wink; twinkling (of stars); flicker (of light); blink (of light)
to forget; to leave carelessly; to be forgetful of; to forget about; to forget (an article)
to gaze at; to fix one's eyes upon
toes; tips of the toes; toe of a shoe, sock, etc.
to touch; to feel; to touch (with); to experience; to come in contact with; to touch on (a subject); to allude to
thin (paper, cloth, porcelain, etc.); of thin make; superficial (knowledge, critique, etc.); shallow; slight wound; slight cut
fairy tale; fairy story; nursery tale
neat and clean; tidy; trim
sweet (e.g. young girls, flowers blooming); touchingly lovely; cute; pitiful; pitiable
little girl; maiden; young lady; female usually between 7 and 18 years old
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
to resound; to be heard far away; to reverberate; to shake; to come (home); to remain (with someone)
singing of insects (esp. in autumn); sound of insects
silence; stillness; quietness
stiffening; rigidity; rigor; stiffness; ossification; petrification
to squeeze out; to wring out
(professional) storyteller; hereditary role of narrator in early imperial court
interval; space; valley; gorge; loophole (in a wall); crenel
to throw at; to turn; to raise
carelessness; inattention; thoughtlessness
don't worry about it; forget about it
to have (urgent) business; to have something one needs to attend to; to have something one wants to say (to someone)
to be urgent; to be pressing; to be imminent
business; thing to be done; something that should be performed; information that should be conveyed
in; on; at (place); as for; regarding
pain; anguish; suffering; duhkha (suffering)
have to (verb); must (verb); is indispensable; absolutely necessary
putting into operation; invocation
dainty; delicate; slender; fragile (e.g. furniture); delicate; frail
foolishness; silliness; stupidity; (arch.) I; (arch.) me
to commit (e.g. crime); to perpetrate; to break (e.g. rule); to violate; to rape; to violate
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
art; technique; means; way; trick; trap
restriction; restraint; binding; constraint
to remove; to take off; to drop (e.g. from a team); to remove (from a position); to leave (e.g. one's seat); to go away from
sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)