well; well-shaped thing

home village or town

neat; orderly

well water; (placename) Cheng Sui

water from a water well

hit a person when he is down; a "cheap shot"

(orig. of boat society women) to marry into a dry-land family; → (of women) to marry into a family of higher social class; to marry into a family of means and to live comfortably because of it; (of female prostitutes, a euphemism) to marry | Literally, "to consume well-water", the inference is that the woman is no longer sourcing her drinking and cooking water from rivers and streams, but from wells, as dry-land people traditionally do | Also: 埋街食井水; 埋街

a mineshaft

a manhole [國]: 人孔

ignorant and narrow-minded (lit., "to view the sky from the bottom of a well")

loss of sexual desire - Usually used to describe women, literally "an ancient well has no waves".

feeling calm and peaceful, untouched by the external things/ outside world; impervious to desires and passions

tidy, methodical

derrick; headframe; wellhead

oil well

manhole cover

manhole covers

the well has dried up

blind shaft; winze

lung-ching (dragon well) tea

to not make timely preparations; to prepare for something only when there is already need for it; (lit.) to dig a well when you're already thirsty

everyone minds their own business

marketplace

to clean out an ancient well

marry a rich widow for her money; have an affair with an older rich woman

marrying a rich widow (slang)

patio, courtyard

(orig. of boat society women) to marry into a dry-land family; → (of women) to marry into a family of higher social class; to marry into a family of means and to live comfortably because of it; (of female prostitutes, a euphemism) to marry | Also: 食井水; 埋街

lit. for fishermen to move on land and drink well water, meaning one who can survive stress-free and well-off without working; go into early retirement

the well-field system of ancient China

to move away from one's hometown or motherland and move somewhere else | also 離鄉背井 or 背井離鄉 in Mandarin

to leave one's home / hometown

to be neat and orderly

orderliness