- bad luck; misfortune; adversity
- timing (of a signal or sequence); time course
- 阳春 Yáng chūn: 阳春 Yang2 chun1: see 陽春市|阳春市[Yang2 chun1 Shi4]阳春 yáng chūn: 阳春 yang2 chun1: mild spring weather
- lit. covered in dust (idiom); fig. travel-worn
- to journey to India on a quest for the Buddhist scriptures; to learn by studying another's experience
- lit. to take off a hat; fig. to be cleared of an unfair charge; rehabilitation
- to have nothing to do; to idle one's time away (idiom)
- historical records
- name of a book; reputation as calligrapher
- see 漵浦縣|溆浦县[Xu4 pu3 Xian4]
- area; district; region
- see 湘西土家族苗族自治州[Xiang1 xi1 Tu3 jia1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1]
- Tujia ethnic group
- remarkable; outstanding
- (archaic) agate; (bound form) standard weight used with a balance scale; number; (computing) code; (clothing) size; yard (unit of length); (coll.) kilometers per hour (informal misuse of "yard" to mean kph in speed references); (coll.) to pile up; to stack; classifier for matters, items, situations etc (esp. when indicating whether they are the same or different, as in 不是一碼事|不是一码事[bu4 shi4 yi1 ma3 shi4] "not the same thing"); (Tw, HK) (finance) unit of 25 basis points (i.e. a 0.25% change in interest rate)
- famous; celebrated
- martyr
- Southeast University
- branches and knots; fig. side issue; minor peripheral problem
- (idiom) intricately interconnected
- shrine; to offer a sacrifice
- thatched hut
- desolate
- the most senior minister of many kingdoms or dynasties (with varying roles); prime minister
- 壮 zhuàng: 壮 zhuang4: to strengthen; strong; robust壮 Zhuàng: 壮 Zhuang4: Zhuang ethnic group, the largest ethnic minority in China
- vigor; virility; dynamism; (literary) powerful wind
- palace hall
- to read extensively; to be widely read
- booklist; bibliography; title catalogue; CL:本[ben3]
- national library
- Catholicism
- (literary) foreign aggression; external threat; humiliation inflicted by outsiders
- (archaic) capital's gate; country's border
- real knowledge