- Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of keen awareness
- dust; dirt; earth
- poplar; CL:棵[ke1]
- grave; tomb; CL:座[zuo4]; embankment; mound; ancient book
- on earth
- 桑 Sāng: 桑 Sang1: surname Sang桑 sāng: 桑 sang1: (bound form) mulberry tree
- a thousand years; your birthday (honorific)
- badge; emblem; insignia; crest; logo; coat of arms
- to not have had time; to have not yet; not to touch upon
- solar calendar; Western (Gregorian) calendar
- July; seventh month (of the lunar year)
- to finish (writing a book); to appear in book form; a book already in circulation
- when?
- same; identical; uniformly; all; without exception
- birthday
- soon; before long
- meaning of a title; implication; theme
- 兰 Lán: 兰 Lan2: surname Lan; abbr. for Lanzhou 蘭州|兰州[Lan2 zhou1], Gansu兰 lán: 兰 lan2: orchid (蘭花|兰花 Cymbidium goeringii); fragrant thoroughwort (蘭草|兰草 Eupatorium fortunei); lily magnolia (木蘭|木兰)
- to portray
- scar; traces
- clear proof
- unspecified period; in the indefinite future; no fixed time; indefinite sentence (i.e. life imprisonment)
- (literary) to produce; to foster; to nurture
- (legal) case; incident; record; file; table
- to close (the eyes)
- perseverance; willpower
- raging flames
- to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head
- to forgive
- recently; lately
- experiment; test; CL:次[ci4],個|个[ge4]; to experiment; experimental
- local chronicles; district records
- 乾 Qián: 乾 Qian2: surname Qian乾 qián: 乾 qian2: one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing heaven; male principle; ☰; ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)乾 Gān: 乾 Gan1: surname Gan乾 gān: 乾 gan1: dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder
- 嘉 jiā: 嘉 jia1: excellent; auspicious; to praise; to commend嘉 Jiā: 嘉 Jia1: surname Jia
- compass; a rule; regulation; to admonish; to plan; to scheme
- Grand Scribe, the title by which Sima Qian 司馬遷|司马迁[Si1 ma3 Qian1] refers to himself in Records of the Historian 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4]
- a real person; Daoist spiritual master
- increasing by the day