- to persuade; to exhort; to advise
- etiquette; custom
- (of roads, lines etc) to intersect; (of people) to associate with one another; to become friends
- trials and tribulations
- anxiety; sympathy; to sympathize; to give relief; to compensate
- to admire; to praise; to appreciate
- to expand
- the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties
- government; CL:個|个[ge4]
- government-run; state-run
- 郎 Láng: 郎 Lang2: surname Lang郎 láng: 郎 lang2: (arch.) minister; official; noun prefix denoting function or status; a youth
- (bound form) to leave behind
- 土 Tǔ: 土 Tu3: surname Tu; Tu ethnic group土 tǔ: 土 tu3: earth; dust; clay; local; indigenous; crude opium; unsophisticated; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]
- chronicle (of sb's life)
- to visit; to call on (a person or place); (computing) to visit (a website); to access (a network resource etc); (Tw) to interview (e.g. for a report or feature story); CL:次[ci4]
- summary; abstract
- 郑 Zhèng: 郑 Zheng4: Zheng, a Zhou-dynasty state in the vicinity of present-day Xinzheng 新鄭|新郑[Xin1 zheng4], a county-level city in Henan; abbr. for Zhengzhou 鄭州|郑州[Zheng4 zhou1], the capital of Henan; surname Zheng郑 zhèng: 郑 zheng4: used in 鄭重|郑重[zheng4 zhong4]
- border; horizon; shore
- Zi Lu (542-480 BC), disciple of Confucius 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3], also known as Ji Lu 季路[Ji4 Lu4]
- to be born; to come into being; to withdraw from worldly affairs
- essay
- to make a draft; to draw up (plans)
- to cause a sensation; to create a stir in (a place); commotion; controversy
- media; commentators
- to lead to; to trigger; to initiate; to cause; to evoke (emotions)
- before this; before then; previously
- human rights
- dictatorship
- to contain; to accumulate
- out of the ordinary
- lit. the first person to make funerary figurines (idiom); fig. the originator of an evil practice
- leading role; lead; protagonist
- to vow; to pledge; to swear
- to substitute for; to take the place of; to replace; for; on behalf of; to stand in for
- to construct; building; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to innovate; innovation
- original intention
- to stipulate; to specify; to prescribe; to fix (a price); to set (a quota); regulations; rules; provisions; stipulations
- study (room)