- to promote; to advocate
- trembling with fear; with fear and trepidation
- to immerse oneself in; engrossed in sth; to lower the head (e.g. to avoid rain); countersunk (of screws, rivets etc)
- tedious; convoluted; fiddly; pedantic
- to provoke; to irritate; to upset; to stimulate; to excite; irritant
- under; beneath; less than
- herald; precursor; harbinger
- extremely quiet
- to continue; to follow after; to go on with; to succeed; to inherit; then; afterwards
- to brush; to caress (of breeze); to praise
- to appreciate; to enjoy; to admire
- see 四川省[Si4 chuan1 Sheng3]
- see 成都市[Cheng2 du1 Shi4]
- senior; of a senior generation; to honor; to respect; honorific; classifier for cannons and statues; ancient wine vessel
- academy of classical learning (Tang Dynasty - Qing Dynasty)
- scholarship; high-level study; to do scholarly research; to pursue a high level of study
- foundation; grounding; background; what lies at the bottom of sth; root; cause
- conversant with the Confucian classics; to stimulate menstrual flow (TCM)
- to read and reread sth until one is familiar with it
- purpose; aim; goal; target; objective
- final; ultimate
- to belong to; affiliated to; to result in sth; to incline towards
- useful
- to tend towards
- comparable
- disciple; student (of a famous master)
- to make (a list); to list
- booklist; bibliography; title catalogue; CL:本[ben3]
- to answer a question; question and answer
- to spread; to propagate; to disseminate
- whole nation; nationwide; countrywide; national
- first choice; premium; to come first in the imperial examinations
- to guide; guidebook
- to translate; to interpret; translator; interpreter; translation; interpretation; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- the West (Europe and North America); countries of the Indian Ocean (traditional)
- a book on the art of war
- geometry; (literary) how much
- algebra
- mathematics
- ocean
- brief; sketchy; outline; summary; to omit; (bound form before a single-character verb) a bit; somewhat; slightly; plan; strategy; to capture (territory)