- to become deformed; to change shape; to morph
- best feature; most important part of an object; quintessence; essence; soul
- to harm; to damage; to injure; impairment; loss; disability
- to dissolve; to disband
- agreement; pact; protocol; CL:項|项[xiang4]
- league member; ally
- needless; unnecessary
- yellow flowers (of various types); chrysanthemum; cauliflower; (yellow) daylily; a young virgin (boy or girl)
- a load on one's mind; worry; CL:宗[zong1],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- who would have thought; unexpectedly
- wind and frost; fig. hardships
- silk; thread-like thing; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips; classifier: a trace (of smoke etc), a tiny bit etc
- to take as a guiding principle (idiom)
- to rush like ducks (idiom); the mob scrabbles madly for sth unobtainable; an unruly crowd on a wild goose chase
- well-off; affluent
- wealth and official post
- to provide (an asset) as security for a loan; to put up collateral
- 获 hùo: 获 huo4: (literary) to catch; to capture; (literary) to get; to obtain; to win获 hùo: 获 huo4: (bound form) to reap; to harvest
- law; legal studies
- to gather; assembly; meeting; CL:個|个[ge4],次[ci4]
- agreement; contract
- just a while before; not so long ago; everyone can remember when..
- to be appointed or elevated to a post
- bureau chief; CL:位[wei4],個|个[ge4]
- to punish sb (for a crime)
- sth written or painted in one's own hand; (of a writer, calligrapher or painter) skill; style; hand; (fig.) style shown in spending money, handling business etc; scale
- labor and capital; workers and capitalists
- controversy; dispute; to dispute
- masterpiece
- element; component
- to appoint; to assign; to indicate clearly and with certainty; designated
- sonorous; resounding; fig. resounding words
- to admire
- acute spirit; dash; drive
- to expel; to urge on; to drive; to run quickly
- to meet together
- to suffer in silence; to endure hardship or injustice without complaint; to swallow one's grievances
- 伊 yī: 伊 yi1: (old) third person singular pronoun ("he" or "she"); second person singular pronoun ("you"); (May 4th period) third person singular feminine pronoun ("she"); (Classical Chinese) introductory particle with no specific meaning; (preceding a noun) that; (bound form) Iraq (abbr. for 伊拉克[Yi1 la1 ke4]); (bound form) Iran (abbr. for 伊朗[Yi1 lang3])伊 Yī: 伊 Yi1: surname Yi
- 尹 Yǐn: 尹 Yin3: surname Yin尹 yǐn: 尹 yin3: (literary) to administer; to govern; (bound form) governor; prefect; magistrate (official title in imperial times)
- Zhuge Liang (181–234), military leader and prime minister of Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉[Shu3 Han4] during the Three Kingdoms period; the main hero of the fictional Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义[San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4], where he is portrayed as a sage and military genius; (fig.) a mastermind