- remarkable ability; magical power
- first; most important; primary; foremost
- famous; noted; well-known; celebrated
- Mahayana, the Great Vehicle; Buddhism based on the Mayahana sutras, as spread to Central Asia, China and beyond; also pr. [Da4 cheng2]
- 论 Lún: 论 Lun2: abbr. for 論語|论语[Lun2 yu3], The Analects (of Confucius)论 lùn: 论 lun4: opinion; view; theory; doctrine; to discuss; to talk about; to regard; to consider; per; by the (kilometer, hour etc)
- 师 shī: 师 shi1: teacher; master; expert; model; army division; (old) troops; to dispatch troops师 Shī: 师 Shi1: surname Shi
- CE (Common Era); Christian Era; AD (Anno Domini)
- century
- bard; poet
- senior; of a senior generation; to honor; to respect; honorific; classifier for cannons and statues; ancient wine vessel
- the Indian subcontinent (esp. in Tang or Buddhist context)
- 祖 zǔ: 祖 zu3: ancestor; forefather; grandparents祖 Zǔ: 祖 Zu3: surname Zu
- China
- different; other; hetero-; unusual; strange; surprising; to distinguish; to separate; to discriminate
- 称 chēng: 称 cheng1: to weigh; to state; to name; name; appellation; to praise称 chèn: 称 chen4: to fit; to match; to suit; (coll.) to have; to possess; Taiwan pr. [cheng4]
- to originate in
- Indian (person); CL:個|个[ge4]; Indian people
- to call; to address as; form of address; appellation
- transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters); characters giving phonetic value of Chinese word or name (when the correct characters may be unknown); transcription (linguistics); to transcribe phonetic symbols
- India
- foreign country
- pagoda
- on top of; at the summit
- ring-shaped; (math.) annulus
- wheel; disk; ring; steamship; to take turns; to rotate; classifier for big round objects: disk, or recurring events: round, turn
- in a word; in short; in brief
- to conserve; to preserve; to keep; to store; (computing) to save (a file etc)
- to be born
- 泡 pāo: 泡 pao1: puffed; swollen; spongy; small lake (esp. in place names); classifier for urine or feces泡 pào: 泡 pao4: bubble; foam; blister; to soak; to steep; to infuse; to dawdle; to loiter; to pick up (a girl); to get off with (a sexual partner); classifier for occurrences of an action; classifier for number of infusions
- (coll.) ethanol; ethyl alcohol
- (idiom) cautious; careful; prudent
- (lit. and fig.) road; path
- near
- destination (location)
- to take out; to extract; to draw out
- restaurant; CL:家[jia1]
- period of time; time; time period; period; CL:個|个[ge4]
- shelf