- see 湘陰縣|湘阴县[Xiang1 yin1 Xian4]
- native place; place of origin; home state or region
- country or countryside; native place; home village or town; township (PRC administrative unit)
- the back row (in a theater etc); the rear seats (in a vehicle)
- spectators; audience; visitors (to an exhibition etc)
- not able to see clearly
- portrait; true features; (fig.) true nature
- 大方 Dà fāng: 大方 Da4 fang1: see 大方縣|大方县[Da4 fang1 Xian4]大方 dà fang: 大方 da4 fang5: generous; magnanimous; stylish; in good taste; easy-mannered; natural and relaxed大方 dà fāng: 大方 da4 fang1: expert; scholar; mother earth; a type of green tea
- loud voice; in a loud voice; loudly
- to test; to try; experiment; examination; test
- daddy; granddad
- (oak); thorny shrub
- to talk nonsense
- strange; weird
- to be amazed; to be surprised; to wonder
- audience; listeners
- to laugh up one's sleeve
- to exaggerate; to be boastful; pompous; grandiose
- witticism
- 襄 Xiāng: 襄 Xiang1: surname Xiang襄 xiāng: 襄 xiang1: (literary) to assist
- (literary) to ascend; to climb; to mount
- to infer; inference; corollary; reasoned conclusion
- famous reputation
- power; authority
- near; close to; approximately
- 夸 kuā: 夸 kua1: used in transliteration夸 kuā: 夸 kua1: to boast; to exaggerate; to praise
- simple and unadorned; plain; (of land) level; even
- to alert; to warn; police
- August; eighth month (of the lunar year)
- to go to jail; to be sent to prison
- top scorer in the palace examination (highest rank of the Imperial examination system); see 榜眼[bang3 yan3] and 探花[tan4 hua1]; top scorer in college entrance examination 高考[gao1 kao3]; (fig.) the most brilliantly talented person in the field; leading light
- to pardon (a convict)
- rumor; hearsay
- genuine; pure; honest
- to serve; to attend upon
- root; source; origin
- to be elected
- to invite; to request; to intercept; to solicit; to seek
- statute; constitution
- canon; law; standard work of scholarship; literary quotation or allusion; ceremony; to be in charge of; to mortgage or pawn
- imperial examinations (in former times)