- to repay; to requite
- 孟 Mèng: 孟 Meng4: surname Meng孟 mèng: 孟 meng4: first month of a season; eldest amongst brothers
- to admire with gratitude
- (coll.) no good; of no use
- graduate; successful candidate in the imperial provincial examination
- hasn't (or haven't); hasn't ever
- 丁 Dīng: 丁 Ding1: surname Ding丁 zhēng: 丁 zheng1: used in 丁丁[zheng1 zheng1]丁 dīng: 丁 ding1: male adult; the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干[tian1 gan1]; fourth (used like "4" or "D"); small cube of meat or vegetable; (literary) to encounter; (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195°; (chemistry) butyl
- crane
- to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess
- building; shop; term for certain service establishments; embassy or consulate; schoolroom (old); CL:家[jia1]
- tuition fee; tuition; CL:個|个[ge4]
- often; constantly
- land tax; money and grain (given as tax or tribute)
- 周济 zhōu jì: 周济 zhou1 ji4: help to the needy; emergency relief; charity; to give to poorer relative; (also 賙濟|赒济)周济 Zhōu Jì: 周济 Zhou1 Ji4: Zhou Ji (1781-1839), Qing writer and poet
- soul
- to learn to read; able to read; literate
- to take an exam; exam; CL:次[ci4]
- successful candidate in the highest imperial civil service examination; palace graduate
- to know; to be aware
- melancholy; depression
- to draw back; to move back and forth; to hesitate; in an instant
- coffin containing a corpse
- just like; solemn; dignified; neatly laid out
- to throw oneself at; to pounce on; to devote one's energies; to flap; to flutter; to dab; to pat; to bend over
- grief
- to speak of; to refer to
- edges and corners
- to pass a university entrance exam
- half a lifetime
- to degenerate; impoverished; to fall (into poverty); to be reduced (to begging)
- inferior quality; substandard; low-grade
- cherished desire; dream; craving; wish; aspiration
- to lose; to be beaten; (bound form) to transport; (literary) to donate; to contribute; (coll.) to enter (a password)
- strength of character; vigorous style (of calligraphy)
- ambition; resolve; backbone; drive; spirit
- government; official (approved or issued by an authority)
- words; speech; utterance; discourse
- eight-part essay one had to master to pass the imperial exams in Ming and Qing dynasties
- imperial examinations (in former times)
- (conjunction linking two nouns) and its ...; and their ...; and his ...; and her ...