1 life

2 fate

3 order or command

4 to assign a name, title etc

1 fate

2 destiny

3 classifier: 个 gè

1 life (as the characteristic of living beings)

2 living being

3 creature

4 classifier: 个 gè

5 classifier: 条 tiáo

1 short

2 brief

3 to lack

4 weak point

5 fault

1 text message

2 SMS

1 to die (idiom)

2 to breathe one's last

3 to give up the ghost

1 runaway (idiom); desperate criminal

2 fugitive

1 human life is beyond value (idiom)

1 lit. use others' strengths to make up for one's weak points (idiom from Mencius)

2 to use this in place of that

3 what you lose on the swings, you win on the roundabouts

1 lit. the mouth that has been fed by others is soft, the hand that has received doesn't reach (idiom)

2 fig. one is partial to those from whom presents have been accepted