- lit. tangled skein; in a tremendous muddle; confused
- (lit.) name not encountered in the classics; unknown (person); nobody
- difference; peculiar
- curtain
- to hang (down); droop; dangle; bend down; hand down; bequeath; nearly; almost; to approach
- pillar; CL:根[gen1]
- more than ten; a dozen or more
- length; accident; mishap; right and wrong; good and bad; merits and demerits
- lackey; errand boy; lit. runner before a carriage
- to be called; to be known as; to call it "..."
- to waste (one's breath, one's energy etc); to try in vain
- accidentally; to act before thinking
- step; pace
- coincidence; coincidental; to coincide
- public opinion
- to overturn; to collapse; to lean; to tend; to incline; to pour out
- to flee; to go into exile
- omen; portent; sign
- question; interrogation; doubt
- to do business
- to climb step by step; to rise steadily; on the up and up
- gradient; slope
- lit. as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns (idiom); fig. few and far between
- to recommend
- quota; number of places; place (in an institution, a group etc)
- to found; to establish
- roly-poly toy
- to be the acknowledged leader (from the custom of a prince holding a plate on which lay the severed ears of a sacrificial bull at an alliance ceremony)
- round table
- to decorate; interior decoration; to fit up; to renovate
- inverted image; reversed image (e.g. upside down)
- the middle stretches of a river; middle level; middle echelon; midstream
- to drag; to pull; Taiwan pr. [yi4]
- (idiom) to put on an act; to show affectation; to indulge in histrionics
- somewhere
- Japanese tea ceremony; sado