- whistle made of reed
- drum; CL:通[tong4],面[mian4]; to drum; to strike; to rouse; to bulge; to swell
- clamor; noise
- 郊 Jiāo: 郊 Jiao1: surname Jiao郊 jiāo: 郊 jiao1: suburbs; outskirts
- beam; rafter; classifier for rooms
- (literary) gray hair
- bank; shore; beach; coast
- to possess assurance and composure
- calamity and chaos; devastating disorder; great turmoil
- midstream
- undecided; indeterminate; still in doubt
- one's two hands; two prongs (of a strategy); both aspects, eventualities etc; skills; expertise
- to pause at appropriate points in reading aloud unpunctuated writing; to punctuate
- for a specific purpose; specially
- early years
- imperial orders
- to praise
- mound; tomb; hill; mountain
- rare; infrequent
- noble and clean-living; lofty and unsullied
- nobleman; person of noble character
- great person of the past; venerable forebear; the great and the good
- hermit
- alias
- to narrate; to recount; narrative
- to split up; to divide; to break up; fission; schism
- to order the arrest of sb as criminal; to list as wanted
- verse manuscript
- letter; letter paper
- letter; note-paper
- publicly owned; communal; held in common
- a poem; a composition in verse; fig. epic (compared with historical epic); the biblical Book of Psalms
- antiphon (i.e. solo voice answered by chorus); sung reply (in agreement with first voice); to reply with a poem in the same rhythm
- to praise; to commend
- Tuesday
- to mean; to imply
- admittedly (it's true that...)
- to infer; inference; corollary; reasoned conclusion
- to miss; to long for; to remember with longing; yearning