1 candle

2 classifier: 根 gēn

3 classifier: 支 zhī

1 surname Huang or Hwang

1 dusk

2 evening

3 nightfall

1 ox

2 cattle

3 scalper of tickets etc

4 to fail to show up

5 to break a promise

1 cucumber

2 classifier: 条 tiáo

1 lit. not to stop until one reaches the Yellow River (idiom)

2 fig. to persevere until one reaches one's goal

3 to keep going while some hope is left

1 lit. to blow out the lamp and put out the candle (idiom)

2 fig. to die

3 to bite the dust

4 to be over and done with

1 tastes as if one is chewing wax (idiom)

2 tasteless

3 insipid

1 lit. to return to the Yellow Springs 黃泉|黄泉[Huáng quán] (idiom)

2 fig. to die

3 to meet one's end

1 no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom)

2 also written 啞巴吃黃連|哑巴吃黄连

3 (often precedes 有苦說不出|有苦说不出[yǒu kǔ shuō bu chū])