- suddenly
- pitch of voice (high or low); pitch (of a musical note); tone
- sound of thunder
- sound; noise
- not only
- to lead troups; (fig.) to lead; leading
- foreshadowing (literary device); foretaste of material to come (in an essay or story)
- expansion; dilation; to expand (e.g. one's power or influence); to broaden
- total; overall amount
- (idiom) not to be outdone
- to approach; to draw near; to be close to (in space or time)
- same as Fuxi 伏羲[Fu2 xi1], a mythical emperor; surname Xi
- to crown; coronation
- to swallow; to take
- 万象 Wàn xiàng: 万象 Wan4 xiang4: Vientiane, capital of Laos万象 wàn xiàng: 万象 wan4 xiang4: every manifestation of nature
- brash; insolent; frantic
- the state of Chu, one of the most important of the small states contending for power in China between 770 and 223 BC, located around present-day Hubei
- Qu Yuan (340-278 BC), famous Warring States statesman and poet, author of Sorrow at Parting 離騷|离骚 Lisao in Songs of Chu 楚辭|楚辞
- to feign madness
- (literary) chassis of a carriage (contrasted with the canopy 堪[kan1]); (literary) (fig.) the earth (while the carriage canopy is a metaphor for heaven); land; territory; (literary) carriage; (literary) sedan chair; palanquin; (bound form) the multitudes; the people; the public
- a poem; a composition in verse; fig. epic (compared with historical epic); the biblical Book of Psalms
- Li Bai (701-762), famous Tang Dynasty poet
- serious; solemn; earnest; conscientious
- verse; CL:行[hang2]
- Confucius
- quarter (hour); moment; to carve; to engrave; to cut; oppressive; classifier for short time intervals
- lithography; lithographic printing
- honest
- echo; sound; noise; to make a sound; to sound; to ring; loud; classifier for noises
- general; popular; everywhere; universal
- see 大同市[Da4 tong2 Shi4]; see 大同鄉|大同乡[Da4 tong2 Xiang1]; see 大同區|大同区[Da4 tong2 Qu1]; (Confucianism) Great Harmony (concept of an ideal society)
- to discriminate against; discrimination
- foreign land; a place far from home
- to switch from one major or faculty to another (at a university)