- surname Song; the Song dynasty (960–1279); Song of the Southern Dynasties (420–479) 南朝宋[Nan2 chao2 Song4]
- (bound form) hero; heroic; outstanding person; prominent; distinguished
- to engrave; inscribed motto
- Chongqing municipality (short name 渝[Yu2])
- to force; to compel; to coerce
- Classic of Mountain and Sea, probably compiled c. 500 BC-200 BC, contains wide range of geography, mythology, witchcraft, popular customs etc
- Guwen Guanzhi, an anthology of essays written in Literary Chinese, compiled and edited by Wu Chucai and Wu Diaohou of Qing dynasty
- to pursue unremittingly (idiom); to persevere
- career; life (way in which sb lives); period of one's life
- childhood
- regeneration through one's own effort (idiom); self-reliance
- to be hell-bent on; dead set on sth; unswerving
- to indulge; to pamper; to connive at; permissive; indulgent; self-indulgent; unrestrained; undisciplined; uncultured; boorish
- to see off; to send off
- balcony; porch
- to flow freely (of air); to ventilate; to breathe (of fabric etc); to take a breath of fresh air; to divulge
- (idiom) to be overcome with grief
- negative; the negative side
- cross-legged
- (derog.) old-fashioned and stubborn person; stick in the mud
- (idiom) to cruelly separate lovers (esp. by family or societal pressure); to forcibly break up a couple against their will
- to feel vexed; annoyed; good-for-nothing; stupid and cowardly
- brave; courageous
- how (wonderful etc); what (a great idea etc); however (difficult it may be etc); (in interrogative sentences) how (much etc); to what extent
- (idiom) to be a yes-man
- 妻子 qī zǐ: 妻子 qi1 zi3: wife and children妻子 qī zi: 妻子 qi1 zi5: wife
- thief
- Chongqing municipality (short name 渝[Yu2])
- (of relations) joyous and harmonious
- (coll.) father-in-law (wife's father)
- to love dearly
- (of the husband) to marry into and live with the wife's family (inverting traditional Chinese expectations)
- pleasant to hear
- suddenly opens up to a wide panorama (idiom); to come to a wide clearing; fig. everything becomes clear at once; to achieve speedy enlightenment
- Virgo (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
- ancestral hometown; original domicile (and civil registration)
- see 寧波市|宁波市[Ning2 bo1 Shi4]
- excelling both in morals and studies (idiom); top marks for studies and for behavior (at school); a paragon of virtue and learning