- to admit guilt; to plead guilty
- main content; matter; work; origin of an incident; cause; purpose; subject (of business letter)
- modern man; Homo sapiens
- to lack; to be short of
- stratagem; strategy; resourcefulness
- ignorant and inexperienced; ill-informed and narrow-minded
- 武功 Wǔ gōng: 武功 Wu3 gong1: see 武功縣|武功县[Wu3 gong1 Xian4]武功 wǔ gōng: 武功 wu3 gong1: martial art; military accomplishments; (Peking opera) martial arts feats
- Confucianism
- 祖 Zǔ: 祖 Zu3: surname Zu祖 zǔ: 祖 zu3: ancestor; forefather; grandparents
- (bound form) shame; humiliation; disgrace
- senior; of a senior generation; to honor; to respect; honorific; classifier for cannons and statues; ancient wine vessel
- old name for China; Cathay
- Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC)
- to continue to use (old methods); to apply as before; according to usage
- arrogant; haughty
- art of war; military strategy and tactics
- to curl one's lip; to twitch one's mouth
- (idiom) to exaggerate; to overstate the facts
- formula
- 春秋 chūn qīu: 春秋 chun1 qiu1: spring and autumn; four seasons; year; a person's age; annals (used in book titles)春秋 Chūn qīu: 春秋 Chun1 qiu1: Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC); Spring and Autumn Annals, chronicle of Lu State (722-481 BC)
- to require a solution; to seek to solve (an equation)
- (idiom based on Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3]) to deploy one's troops in such a way that there is no possibility of retreat, so that they will fight for their lives and win the battle; to fight desperately when confronted with mortal danger; to find a way to emerge from a dire situation
- to experience for oneself
- to taste wine; to sip wine
- to keep in the mouth; to contain
- (idiom) to have a well-thought-out plan in mind
- 丧 sàng: 丧 sang4: to lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc); to be bereaved of (one's spouse etc); to die; disappointed; discouraged丧 sāng: 丧 sang1: mourning; funeral; (old) corpse
- 匡 kuāng: 匡 kuang1: (literary) to rectify; (literary) to assist; (coll.) to calculate roughly; to estimate匡 Kuāng: 匡 Kuang1: surname Kuang
- 予 yú: 予 yu2: (archaic) I; me予 yǔ: 予 yu3: (literary) to give
- to boast shamelessly; to talk big
- to gamble
- deliberately mystifying; to make sth unnecessarily complicated
- slip of the tongue; indiscretion; to blurt out a secret
- Mandate of Heaven; destiny; fate; one's life span
- God; Heavens
- to turn peril into safety (idiom); to avert disaster
- troops appearing suddenly (in a raid or ambush)
- mountain and river exhausted (idiom); at the end of the line; nowhere to go
- 奇 jī: 奇 ji1: odd (number)奇 qí: 奇 qi2: strange; odd; weird; wonderful; surprisingly; unusually
- subtle