- lazy
- old friend; the deceased
- interrogation; greeting
- childhood
- dirty; filthy; despicable
- to forget; to overlook; to neglect
- canon; law; standard work of scholarship; literary quotation or allusion; ceremony; to be in charge of; to mortgage or pawn
- the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
- Lu You (1125–1210), widely regarded as the greatest of the Southern Song poets
- quatrain (poetic form)
- setting sun
- 柳 Lǐu: 柳 Liu3: surname Liu柳 lǐu: 柳 liu3: willow
- drum; CL:通[tong4],面[mian4]; to drum; to strike; to rouse; to bulge; to swell
- right and wrong; quarrel
- 管 guǎn: 管 guan3: to take care (of); to control; to manage; to be in charge of; to look after; to run; to care about; tube; pipe; woodwind; classifier for tube-shaped objects; particle similar to 把[ba3] in 管...叫 constructions; writing brush; (coll.) to; towards管 Guǎn: 管 Guan3: surname Guan
- to hear (sth said); one hears (that); hearsay; listening and speaking
- sad; sorrowful
- to seek medical treatment; to see a doctor
- 万里 Wàn Lǐ: 万里 Wan4 Li3: Wan Li (1916-2015), PRC politician万里 wàn lǐ: 万里 wan4 li3: far away; thousands of miles; 10,000 li万里 Wàn lǐ: 万里 Wan4 li3: Wanli township in New Taipei City 新北市[Xin1 bei3 shi4], Taiwan
- to beg for food
- affair; business; matter; to be engaged in; to attend to; by all means
- 庄 Zhuāng: 庄 Zhuang1: surname Zhuang庄 zhuāng: 庄 zhuang1: farmstead; village; manor; place of business; banker (in a gambling game); grave or solemn; holdings of a landlord (in imperial China)
- (literary) prophecy; omen
- 解 Xiè: 解 Xie4: surname Xie解 jiě: 解 jie3: to divide; to break up; to split; to separate; to dissolve; to solve; to melt; to remove; to untie; to loosen; to open; to emancipate; to explain; to understand; to know; a solution; a dissection解 jiè: 解 jie4: to transport under guard解 xiè: 解 xie4: acrobatic display (esp. on horseback) (old)
- to diminish; to demote; to reduce or devaluate; to disparage; to censure; to depreciate
- poetic essay; taxation; to bestow on; to endow with
- (fig.) (of one's actions) blind; unthinking
- entertainer; performing artist; artisan; craftsman
- old style; old custom; a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry aka 古體詩|古体诗[gu3 ti3 shi1]
- speaking and singing, as in various forms of storytelling such as 彈詞|弹词[tan2 ci2] and 相聲|相声[xiang4 sheng5]; (music) rapping
- 邕 Yōng: 邕 Yong1: Yong River (Guangxi); short name for Nanning (Guangxi)邕 yōng: 邕 yong1: city surrounded by a moat
- also known as; alternative name; to also be called
- Eastern or later Han dynasty, 25-220
- quick; alert; efficacious; effective; to come true; spirit; departed soul; coffin
- 郎 láng: 郎 lang2: (arch.) minister; official; noun prefix denoting function or status; a youth郎 Láng: 郎 Lang2: surname Lang
- to bow to; to pay one's respects; (bound form) to extend greetings (on a specific occasion); to make a courtesy call; (bound form) (of a monarch) to appoint sb to (a position) by performing a ceremony; to acknowledge sb as one's (master, godfather etc); (used before some verbs to indicate politeness)
- general of the household, a mid-ranking military officer responsible for palace or court duties
- Xu Wei (1521-1593), Ming dynasty Chinese painter and author
- 背 bèi: 背 bei4: the back of a body or object; to turn one's back; to hide something from; to learn by heart; to recite from memory; (slang) unlucky; hard of hearing背 bēi: 背 bei1: to carry on one's back; (fig.) to bear; to shoulder (a burden, blame etc)
- woman
- 雷 Léi: 雷 Lei2: surname Lei雷 léi: 雷 lei2: thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 地雷[di4 lei2] land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb)
- to shake; to vibrate; to jolt; to quake; excited; shocked; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing thunder; ☳