1 variant: 恩 ēn

1 official's salary (in feudal times)

1 to be grateful

1 Zhou Enlai (1898-1976), Chinese communist leader, prime minister 1949-1976

1 to pay a debt of gratitude

2 to repay a kindness

1 harsh and merciless (idiom)

1 increase in salary according to one's service record for the year (idiom)

1 to forget favors and violate justice (idiom); ingratitude to a friend

2 to kick a benefactor in the teeth

1 your favor amounts to being given a new lease on life (idiom)

1 to employ both kindness and severity (idiom)