- (bound form) refined; elegant; graceful; beautiful; (bound form) superior; excellent; (loanword) show; (literary) to grow; to bloom; (of grain crops) to produce ears
- the birthplace (of sth good); the cradle (e.g. of art)
- culture; civilization; cultural; CL:個|个[ge4],種|种[zhong3]
- to have; to have always had
- oneness of heaven and humanity; the theory that man is an integral part of nature
- senior; of a senior generation; to honor; to respect; honorific; classifier for cannons and statues; ancient wine vessel
- see 貴德縣|贵德县[Gui4 de2 Xian4]
- 中庸 Zhōng yōng: 中庸 Zhong1 yong1: the Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1]中庸 zhōng yōng: 中庸 zhong1 yong1: golden mean (Confucianism); (literary) (of person) mediocre; ordinary
- to investigate; dialectical
- aspect; facet; level (political, psychological, spiritual etc); (geology) bedding plane
- to hibernate
- deer
- 正 zhèng: 正 zheng4: straight; upright; proper; main; principal; to correct; to rectify; exactly; just (at that time); right (in that place); (math.) positive正 zhēng: 正 zheng1: first month of the lunar year
- fat; fertile; loose-fitting or large; to fertilize; to become rich by illegal means; fertilizer; manure
- 作 zūo: 作 zuo1: (bound form) worker; (bound form) workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person)作 zùo: 作 zuo4: to do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign; to regard as; to consider to be; to be; to act the part of; to feel (itchy, nauseous etc); writings; works
- rhyming couplet; pair of lines of verse written vertically down the sides of a doorway; CL:副[fu4],幅[fu2]
- to refer to oneself as
- 藏 zàng: 藏 zang4: storehouse; depository; Buddhist or Taoist scripture藏 cáng: 藏 cang2: to conceal; to hide away; to harbor; to store; to collect藏 Zàng: 藏 Zang4: Tibetan ethnic group; Tibet Autonomous Region (short name for 西藏自治區|西藏自治区[Xi1 zang4 Zi4 zhi4 qu1])
- 龙 Lóng: 龙 Long2: surname Long龙 lóng: 龙 long2: Chinese dragon; loong; (fig.) emperor; dragon; (bound form) dinosaur
- still; calm; quiet; not moving
- to sprout up; to flourish; (of war etc) to break out; rapid growth
- also
- to preserve and nurture one's spirit (idiom); honing one's strength for the big push
- to attempt; to try; attempt; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- lit. hunting deer in the Central Plain (idiom); fig. to attempt to seize the throne
- aspiration; ambition
- individual; personal; oneself
- to lead along; to pull (an animal on a tether); (bound form) to involve; to draw in
- (Japanese mahjong) to complete one's hand within a single turn after declaring riichi (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 一発 "ippatsu")
- (of sth) to move; to set in movement; to displace; to touch; to make use of; to stir (emotions); to alter; abbr. for 動詞|动词[dong4 ci2], verb
- whole nation; nationwide; countrywide; national
- to manufacture; to make
- (used for abstract things) a good deal, a lot of
- first; most important; primary; foremost
- to drill troops; army training
- to begin; beginning; to start; initial; CL:個|个[ge4]
- Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), prominent politician in late Qing
- to perform music (as an ensemble)
- the first time; for the first time
- to abolish; to abrogate; to repeal
- to conduct; to hold (an event)
- new style; latest type