- refined; educate; cultured; intellectual; polite; gentle
- inevitably
- senior; of a senior generation; to honor; to respect; honorific; classifier for cannons and statues; ancient wine vessel
- 礼 Lǐ: 礼 Li3: surname Li; abbr. for 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4], Classic of Rites礼 lǐ: 礼 li3: gift; rite; ceremony; CL:份[fen4]; propriety; etiquette; courtesy
- scholar; Confucian
- 宣 xuān: 宣 xuan1: to declare (publicly); to announce宣 Xuān: 宣 Xuan1: surname Xuan
- Imperial College of Supreme Learning, established in 124 BC, and the highest educational institute in ancient China until the Sui Dynasty
- heartfelt wish; inner voice; aspiration
- capital of a country (literary)
- wording
- fashion; fad; fashionable
- (to) really (be)
- inevitable; certain; necessity
- 呢 ní: 呢 ni2: dense wool fabric (used for coats and jackets)呢 ne: 呢 ne5: (sentence-final particle) used in questions to link back to prior discourse or context ("what about...?", "and...?"); (sentence-final particle) indicating that a state or situation still holds; (discourse particle) used to mark a slight pause or emphasis in speech
- (honorific) revered news; the most valuable information (in your recent letter, book etc); Thank you for your letter.
- to receive
- inexpensive; lowly; despicable; (bound form) (humble) my
- must not; may not; not to be allowed; cannot
- meaning; content of speech or writing; semantic
- pedantic; trite; inflexible; adherence to old ideas
- afraid; frightened; to fear
- to delete
- not necessarily; may not turn out to be; maybe not
- lake
- to reorganize; to reshuffle (posts etc)
- 归 gūi: 归 gui1: to return; to go back to; to give back to; (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by; to belong to; to gather together; (used between two identical verbs) despite; to marry (of a woman) (old); division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor归 Gūi: 归 Gui1: surname Gui
- 否 fǒu: 否 fou3: to negate; to deny; not否 pǐ: 否 pi3: clogged; evil
- younger brother; junior male; I (modest word in letter)
- to appear; present; now; existing; current
- to write an essay; composition (student essay); CL:篇[pian1]
- for a particular person, occasion, purpose; focused on one thing; special; expert; particular (to sth); concentrated; specialized
- please (do sth) (deferential form)
- 书札 shū zhá: 书札 shu1 zha2: letter; also written 書札|书札书札 shū zhá: 书札 shu1 zha2: letter
- to see clearly
- to judge; to determine; judgment
- gains and losses; success and failure; merits and demerits