| | he; him (used for either sex when the sex is unknown or unimportant) / (used before sb's name for emphasis) / (used as a meaningless mock object) / (literary) other | HSK 1 |
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| | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的) / him / her / it | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (after a noun N and before a predicate P) the reason why N P / Example: 我之所以討厭他｜我之所以讨厌他 "the reason why I dislike him (is ...)" | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (artificial) stream; canal; drain; ditch (CL: 條｜条) / (literary) big; great / (dialect) he; she; him; her / (old) rim of a carriage wheel; felloe | |
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| | to treat the disease to save the patient / to criticize a person in order to help him | |
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| | lit. to make three visits to the thatched cottage (idiom) (allusion to an episode in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義｜三国演义 in which Liu Bei 劉備｜刘备 recruits Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮｜诸葛亮 to his cause by visiting him three times) / fig. to make earnest and repeated requests of sb | |
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| | lit. win an inch, want a foot (idiom); fig. not satisfied with small gains / give him an inch, and he'll want a mile | |
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| | lit. when people leave, the tea cools (idiom) / fig. when sb is no longer in a position of power, others cease to care about him | |
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| | to drip with sweat / sweat poured off (him) | |
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| | an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth (idiom) / fig. to use the enemy's methods against him / to give sb a taste of his own medicine | |
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| | lit. (when a person attains enlightenment and immortality), even his chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven with him (idiom) / fig. (when somebody attains a position of power and influence), their relatives and friends also benefit / (2nd half of the saying 一人得道， 雞犬升天｜一人得道， 鸡犬升天) | |
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| | If you want to condemn sb, don't worry about the pretext (idiom, from Zuozhuan 左傳｜左传); one can always trump up a charge against sb / Give a dog a bad name, then hang him. | |
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| | an eye for an eye (idiom); fig. to use the enemy's methods against him / to give sb a taste of his own medicine | |
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| | lit. the kindness of recognizing sb's worth and employing him (idiom) / patronage / protection | |
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| | to assess sb's capabilities and employ him accordingly (idiom); to employ sb competent for the task | |
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| | to drip with sweat / sweat poured off (him) | |
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| | don't get involved / ignore it! / don't have anything to do with (him, her etc) / don't speak to | |
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| | give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime / knowledge is the best charity | |
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| | to hang sb up and beat him / (fig.) (slang) to own (one's opponent) / to thoroughly dominate | |
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| | lit. when a person attains enlightenment and immortality, even his chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven with him (idiom) / fig. when somebody attains a position of power and influence, their relatives and friends also benefit | |
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| | (coll.) (neologism c. 2017, a play on 伏地魔) woman who devotes herself to supporting her little brother (assisting him with his studies, giving money to help him buy a house etc) | |
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| | to suffer from a plague / to endure a misfortune / a plague on him! | |
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| | a wise man knows better than to fight when the odds are against him (idiom) | |
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| | a true gentleman will sacrifice his life for a friend who understands him, as a woman makes herself beautiful for her sweetheart | |
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| | give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime (idiom) | |
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| | it's easier to invite the devil in than to send him away | |
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| | lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom) / fig. it's a life-and-death struggle / it's either him or me | |
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| | lit. in the presence of a monk, insult another monk, calling him a bald-headed bandit (idiom) / fig. to insult indirectly; to criticize obliquely | |
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| | the master leads you to the door, the rest is up to you / you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink | |
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| | lit. when one beats a dog, one must answer to its master (idiom) / fig. before punishing sb, one should consider how that would affect others associated with him | |
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| | no matter if / regardless of / don’t worry about (it, him etc) / doesn’t matter | |
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| | don’t worry about (it, him etc) / doesn’t matter / whatever / anyway | |
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| | don’t worry about (it, him etc) / doesn’t matter / whatever / anyway | |
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| | no matter if / regardless of / don’t worry about (it, him etc) / doesn’t matter | |
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| | to punish a student by having him stand in a half-squatting position with arms extended forward | |
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| | the monk can run away, but the temple won't run with him (idiom) / you can run this time, but you'll have to come back / I'll get you sooner or later / also written 跑得了和尚， 跑不了廟｜跑得了和尚， 跑不了庙 | |
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| | the monk can run away, but the temple won't run with him (idiom) / you can run this time, but you'll have to come back / I'll get you sooner or later | |
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| | the monk can run away, but the temple won't run with him (idiom) / you can run this time, but you'll have to come back / I'll get you sooner or later | |
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| | If sb has grasped the truth before you, take him as your teacher (Tang dynasty essayist Han Yu 韓愈｜韩愈). / We should learn from one who knows the way. | |
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| | avoid the enemy when he is fresh and strike him when he is tired and withdraws (idiom) | |
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