- horse's hoof; horseshoe; Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis or E. congesta)
- Qing dynasty person
- to annotate; annotation; comment; interpretation; to explain with notes; explanatory note
- to make an excuse; pretext; excuse
- to persuade; to exhort; to advise
- warm; nice and warm
- Liu Zongyuan (773-819), Tang essayist and poet, advocate of the classical writing 古文運動|古文运动 and neoclassical 復古|复古 movements
- to serve; to attend upon
- 御 yù: 御 yu4: (bound form) imperial; royal; (literary) to drive (a carriage); (literary) to manage; to govern御 yù: 御 yu4: (bound form) to defend; to resist
- county; (Japan) prefecture
- firm; steady; staunch; resolute
- toss a peach, get back a plum (idiom); to return a favor; to exchange gifts; Scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours.
- temperament; disposition
- overall situation; the big picture
- successor; to take up a position subsequently as ...; (attributive) future; subsequent
- Beijing Normal University
- to construct; to build; structure; framework; architecture
- to return to the capital
- to complain; to grumble (about); to reproach; to blame
- should not; to owe nothing
- to provoke; to irritate; to vex; to stir up; to anger; to attract (troubles); to cause (problems)
- to get angry; to be furious; vitality; liveliness
- to blame; to reprove; to reprimand; to expel; to oust; to reconnoiter; (of territory) to expand; saline marsh
- not to know the immensity of heaven and earth; an exaggerated opinion of one's own abilities
- guilty conscience; to feel a twinge of guilt
- to compile
- suit; a set; a collection; of the same kind; the same old stuff; set pattern of behavior
- to use anywhere, anytime (card, ticket etc); to be used by everyone (language, textbook etc); (of two or more things) interchangeable
- course syllabus; class curriculum
- tin (chemistry); to bestow; to confer; to grant; Taiwan pr. [xi2]
- (literary) good luck; good fortune; (used in formal letter-ending phrases and in personal names)
- to participate in a meeting
- to explain oneself
- to pass on (stories); to relate
- to bring; to fetch; to get