- 易学 Yì xué: 易学 Yi4 xue2: study of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]易学 yì xué: 易学 yi4 xue2: easy to learn
- famous master; great teacher
- learning; science; academic; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to restrict; to limit; to confine; restriction; limit; CL:個|个[ge4]
- exclusive property; forbidden domain
- official's salary (in feudal times)
- forbidden area; restricted area; (fig.) sth considered off-limits
- to exhort; to admonish
- city
- administrative office
- ancestral hall; memorial hall
- race; nationality; ethnicity; clan; by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族)
- private residence
- whole family; entire household
- seat of government; government repository (archive); official residence; mansion; presidential palace; (honorific) Your home; prefecture (from Tang to Qing times)
- (reception) hall; living room; office; provincial government department
- prefecture; (old) province; (old) administrative division; state (e.g. of US); oblast (Russia); canton (Switzerland)
- county; (Japan) prefecture
- geography
- to go everywhere; to scour (the whole town)
- provinces and cities
- old town; old district of a city
- (TCM) to rectify 氣|气[qi4]
- family influential for generations; aristocratic family
- (idiom) to see through the illusions of the material world (often a precursor to becoming a Buddhist monk or nun); to become disillusioned with human society
- Wudang Mountain range in northwest Hubei
- reputation; fame
- to sweep the floor; (fig.) (of one's reputation etc) to reach rock bottom; to be at an all-time low
- (bound form) Buddhist monk (abbr. for 僧伽[seng1 qie2])
- summit
- million
- Xihu or West lake (place name); West Lake in Hangzhou 杭州, Zhejiang; Xihu or Hsihu township in Miaoli county 苗栗縣|苗栗县[Miao2 li4 xian4], northwest Taiwan
- drinking buddy
- 任 Rén: 任 Ren2: surname Ren任 rèn: 任 ren4: to assign; to appoint; to take up a post; office; responsibility; to let; to allow; to give free rein to; no matter (how, what etc); classifier for terms served in office, or for spouses, girlfriends etc (as in 前任男友)
- to receive orders; to follow orders; to act under orders
- calamity