从
from / through / via / to follow / to obey / to engage in (an activity) / never (in negative sentence) / (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) retainer / assistant / auxiliary / subordinate / related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor
从 character breakdown
person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
Characters with 从 as component
two / both / some / a few / tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty 斤[jin1] (old)
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Li Qingzhao is on a treasure hunt in the anglepod, following a secret map she found. Finally she found a treasure chest guarded by a rubber chicken which she has to overcome. Luckily, the map mentions a tune that Li Qingzhao plays on her flute, and thus bewitching the rubber chicken. The rubber chicken releases the treasure chest, which is full of taels of gold.
warp (the vertical threads in weaving) / vertical / longitudinal / north-south (lines of longitude) / lengthwise / to release / to indulge / even if
cluster / collection / collection of books / thicket
Words with 从
less capable than desirable (idiom); not as strong as one would wish / the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
(idiom) to refer to sth by the name its owners use / to refer to a place by the name its inhabitants use (e.g. refer to Seoul as 首爾|首尔[Shou3 er3] rather than 漢城|汉城[Han4 cheng2])
joy from heaven (idiom); overjoyed at unexpected good news / unlooked-for happy event
lit. the sun rises in the west (idiom) / fig. hell freezes over / pigs can fly
It's a long and intricate story, I hardly know where to start.
Confucian moral injunctions for women, namely: obey in turn three men father, husband and son, plus the four virtues of morality 德[de2], physical charm 容, propriety in speech 言 and efficiency in needlework 功
center-embedded relative clauses
(Internet slang) huge crowds of people (emphatic form of 人[ren2])