- to inherit; to succeed to (the throne etc); to carry on (a tradition etc)
- (idiom) crazy; bizarre; weird; fantastic; strange
- point of view; viewpoint; standpoint; CL:個|个[ge4]
- person of low social status (old); I, me (used to refer humbly to oneself); nasty person; vile character
- ear; handle (archaeology); and that is all (Classical Chinese)
- good fortune; official salary
- out of the ordinary; unusually (good, talented etc)
- texture; grain (of wood); inner essence; intrinsic order; reason; logic; truth; science; natural science (esp. physics); to manage; to pay attention to; to run (affairs); to handle; to put in order; to tidy up
- perfectly contented (idiom); perfectly satisfied
- layman
- to lift (a lid); to rock; to convulse
- exposed; appearing on the outside
- generation; period of 30 years; one's whole lifetime; lifelong; age; era; times; the whole world; the First (of numbered European kings)
- poor and lowly
- brows and eyes; appearance; looks; countenance
- long and narrow
- narrow; narrow-minded; badly off
- 长寿 cháng shòu: 长寿 chang2 shou4: longevity; long-lived长寿 Cháng shòu: 长寿 Chang2 shou4: see 長壽區|长寿区[Chang2 shou4 Qu1]
- to feel relieved; to feel reassured; to be at ease
- (of an atmosphere etc) solemn; grave; serious; (of a manner etc) earnest; severe; exacting; to strictly enforce
- pious; devout; sincere
- to listen (respectfully)
- (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...; -er; -ist; (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously); (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term); (old) (used at the end of a command); (old) this
- (after a noun N and before a predicate P) the reason why N P; Example: 我之所以討厭他|我之所以讨厌他[wo3 zhi1 suo3 yi3 tao3 yan4 ta1] "the reason why I dislike him (is ...)"
- impressive; out of the ordinary
- to separate; to part
- to stand out; outstanding
- to mortgage; to pawn; to detain in custody; to escort and protect; (literary) to sign
- terrific; terrible; (after 得[de5]) very
- master; qualified worker; respectful form of address for older men; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- crape myrtle
- 斗 Dǒu: 斗 Dou3: abbr. for the Big Dipper constellation 北斗星[Bei3 dou3 xing1]斗 dǒu: 斗 dou3: dry measure for grain equal to ten 升[sheng1] or one-tenth of a 石[dan4]; decaliter; peck; cup or dipper shaped object斗 dòu: 斗 dou4: to fight; to struggle; to condemn; to censure; to contend; to put together; coming together
- concrete; specific; detailed
- inconvenient; inappropriate; unsuitable; short of cash
- to have one's life shortened (by excesses etc)
- to make a solemn vow
- Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕; the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义
- archive of graphics (e.g. maps, documents or botanical figures); atlas; collection of illustrations or sheet music
- detailed; in detail; minute
- to write down; to record; written account
- the not-very-distant past; modern times, excluding recent decades; (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919); capitalist times (pre-1949)
- Lin Biao (1908–1971), Chinese army leader at the time of the Cultural Revolution
- exhausting; hard; tough; arduous; to work hard; to go to a lot of trouble; hardship(s)