- spark; sparkle
- Yinxu, ruins of Yinshang 殷商 city at Anyang 安陽|安阳 in Henan province, a World Heritage site
- tortoise shells and animal bones used for divination in the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th to 11th century BC); oracle bones
- cave; cavity; hole; acupuncture point; Taiwan pr. [xue4]
- diverse; diversity; manifold
- to counterfeit; to pass off a fake as genuine
- more and more emerge; innumerable succession; breeding like flies (idiom)
- to sell; to peddle; to traffic
- to hand in; to hand over; to pay; to capture (weapons); to seize
- nib; pen point; the tip of a writing brush or pencil
- age; seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; seventh in order; letter "G" or Roman "VII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; ancient Chinese compass point: 255°; hepta
- tortoise plastron; turtle shell
- to commandeer; to take over for the state
- to display; to exhibit
- to flow into; inflow
- to abduct
- to rise in value; to appreciate
- to preserve value; to protect against depreciation
- can't be bought for one thousand in gold (idiom)
- lit. sth hits one in the face; directly in one's face; sth assaults the senses; blatant (advertising); eye-catching; (a smell) assaults the nostrils
- to be totally oblivious (to sth); to have no idea about sth
- back (of a human or other vertebrate, or of an object)
- skull
- environmental protection; environmentally friendly; abbr. for 環境保護|环境保护[huan2 jing4 bao3 hu4]
- bookshelf; CL:個|个[ge4]
- Zuo Qiuming or Zuoqiu Ming (556-451), famous blind historian from Lu 魯國|鲁国[Lu3 guo2] to whom the history Zuo Zhuan 左傳|左传[Zuo3 Zhuan4] is attributed
- Babaoshan, a hill in Shijingshan District, Beijing, site of the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery 八寶山革命公墓|八宝山革命公墓[Ba1 bao3 shan1 Ge2 ming4 Gong1 mu4]
- record of actual events; documentary (factual rather than fictional)
- power; might; prestige
- to rely heavily upon
- 局 jú: 局 ju2: narrow局 jú: 局 ju2: office; situation; classifier for games: match, set, round etc局 jú: 局 ju2: cramped; narrow
- lit. the sky is high and the emperor is far away (idiom); fig. remote places are beyond the reach of the central government