- to get to know each other; acquaintance
- to exceed
- time; period during the day; one of the 12 two-hour periods enumerated by the earthly branches 地支
- Western Wall, or Wailing Wall (Jerusalem)
- to dig a hole
- surname Xing; place name
- apparatus; rites; appearance; present; ceremony
- intoxicated
- wild, mountainous country
- fertility; ability to have children
- evil spirit; alluring woman
- magnificent style unmatched in his generation (idiom); peerless talent
- 曹 cáo: 曹 cao2: class or grade; generation; plaintiff and defendant (old); government department (old)曹 Cáo: 曹 Cao2: surname Cao; Zhou Dynasty vassal state
- 牡丹 Mǔ dan: 牡丹 Mu3 dan5: Mudan District of Heze City 菏澤市|菏泽市[He2 ze2 Shi4], Shandong; Mutan township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[Ping2 dong1 Xian4], Taiwan牡丹 mǔ dan: 牡丹 mu3 dan5: tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa)
- brocade; embroidered work; bright
- a type of standing harp, smaller than konghou 箜篌, with 5-25 strings
- (of a married couple) to have intercourse; (literary) to share the same room; of the same family branch
- to do sth in place of sb else
- to prove; to confirm; to corroborate; convincing proof
- to have the final say; to be the one in charge
- to have; to own; to hold; to occupy; to possess; to account for (a high proportion etc)
- baseless (lie); without foundation
- Confucian orthodoxy
- to prove a point; to expound on; to demonstrate or prove (through argument); proof
- necessity
- to contain in a concealed form; to keep covered up; implicit
- to turn round; to turn one's head; later; by and by
- limitations; (medicine) localized
- wine cup
- to pour liquid; to irrigate (using waterwheel); to water; to cast (molten metal); to mold
- gloom; a lump on the heart
- stocks and chain; in fetters
- to settle accounts; to clear accounts; to liquidate; to expose and criticize
- civil servant; public servant
- unit (of measure); unit (group of people as a whole); work unit (place of employment, esp. in the PRC prior to economic reform); CL:個|个[ge4]
- material benefit; benefit in kind; (social) welfare