1 son

1 (coll.) mother's mother

2 maternal grandmother

1 woman

2 female

1 girl

2 lass

1 son

2 child

3 seed

4 egg

5 small thing

6 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat

7 Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wǔ děng jué wèi]

8 ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north)

1 lit. a full bottle makes no sound; a half-filled bottle sloshes (idiom)

2 fig. empty vessels make the most noise

1 lit. a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom)

2 fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch

1 lit. a piece of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom)

2 fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch

1 women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom)

1 lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)

2 fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children

3 sandwich generation