- ninth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; ninth in order; letter "I" or Roman "IX" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; ancient Chinese compass point: 345°; nona
- to meet by chance; to come across; (of a calendar event) to come along; (of an event) to fall on (a particular day); to fawn upon
- even number
- self; oneself; sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; sixth in order; letter "F" or Roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; hexa
- 辛 Xīn: 辛 Xin1: surname Xin辛 xīn: 辛 xin1: (of taste) hot or pungent; hard; laborious; suffering; eighth in order; eighth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; letter "H" or Roman "VIII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; ancient Chinese compass point: 285°; octa
- tenth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; tenth in order; letter "J" or Roman "X" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; ancient Chinese compass point: 15°; deca
- elegant; refined
- graceful; fine; elegant
- (various things) such as; such as (the following)
- Shijing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經|五经[Wu3 jing1]
- collar; belt
- peach
- (bound form) to die prematurely (also pr. [yao3]); (literary) (of vegetation) luxuriant
- osprey; fish hawk
- reed
- reed; Phragmites communis
- to cry (of birds, animals and insects); to make a sound; to voice (one's gratitude, grievance etc)
- The Analects of Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3]
- great; liberal
- firm and resolute; staunch
- to die for a good cause
- to think; to consider
- (Tw) to break free of (outmoded ways of thinking etc); to move beyond; to transcend
- (bound form) male; baron, the lowest of the five ranks of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]
- Songs of Chu, an anthology of poetic songs, many from the state of Chu 楚[Chu3], collected in the Han dynasty 漢朝|汉朝[Han4 chao2]
- to name; to be named; to christen; to seek fame
- Confucian school, founded by Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3] (551-479 BC) and Mencius 孟子[Meng4 zi3] (c. 372-c. 289 BC)
- to revere as sole orthodoxy; to hold supremacy (of a religion, ideology, cultural norm, social group etc); to be dominant
- to weigh; to examine; to consider
- over and over again; again and again
- to find out; to learn of
- gaze; insight; foresight; vision; way of looking at things
- charm; humor; wit; humorous; witty
- to not bother about trifles (idiom)
- colleague; co-worker
- optimistic; sanguine; generous; magnanimous; open-minded
- ordinary; common; usually; ordinarily
- to smoke (tobacco)
- pouch; bag; sack; pocket
- messy; disarrayed; disheveled
- hoary head; old age
- 侧 cè: 侧 ce4: the side; to incline towards; to lean; inclined; lateral; side侧 zhāi: 侧 zhai1: lean on one side
- Isaac (name)
- knight; Sir; (loanword) jazz
- wooden and slow of speech; slow-speeched; inarticulate; unsophisticated
- low pitch; quiet (voice); subdued; low-key; low-profile