- bow string; string of musical instrument; watchspring; chord (segment of curve); hypotenuse; CL:根[gen1]
- nice surprise; to be pleasantly surprised
- precipice; cliff; Taiwan pr. [yai2]
- to decline; to wane
- heaven falls and earth rends (idiom); rocked by a major disaster; fig. violent revolution; major social upheaval
- to spread to; to involve; to affect
- to desert; to leave; to forsake
- engineer
- 商 shāng: 商 shang1: commerce; merchant; dealer; to consult; 2nd note in pentatonic scale; quotient (as in 智商[zhi4 shang1], intelligence quotient)商 Shāng: 商 Shang1: Shang Dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC); surname Shang
- to float; to hover; to drift (also fig., to lead a wandering life); to rove; showy; superficial
- 泊 pō: 泊 po1: lake; Taiwan pr. [bo2]泊 bó: 泊 bo2: to moor (a boat); to park (a vehicle); (literary) calm; quiet; peaceful
- indefinite; indeterminate; (botany) adventitious
- each (item in sequence); successive
- (of a thought or image) to come to mind; (of a smile etc) to appear (on sb's face); (of a problem etc) to emerge
- to associate with; to keep company with
- Song Jiang, a principal hero of the novel Water Margin 水滸傳|水浒传
- knight-errant
- livelihood
- to view sb as an enemy; to be hateful towards
- rich and powerful person
- to swarm; to rise in masses
- shade of trees
- alone; lonely
- chivalrous person; knight-errant
- (idiom) infamous pirate; (by extension) notorious bandit or robber
- as for; when it comes to
- to swear brotherhood
- to test; to try; experiment; examination; test
- all year round; for years on end; average year
- xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害[Shen1 Bu4 hai4]; the designation for a punishment
- salary; pay
- to support a family; to raise a family
- at the knee (in reference to children); (salutation used in letters to parents or grandparents)
- to receive favor (from superior); favored; pampered