- to boast; to blow one's own horn
- to comfort; to console
- to carve; carved words; to agree; a contract; a deed
- young generation; youth; young man
- 方丈 fāng zhang: 方丈 fang1 zhang5: square zhang (i.e. unit of area 10 feet square); monastic room 10 feet square; Buddhist or Daoist abbot; abbot's chamber方丈 Fāng zhang: 方丈 Fang1 zhang5: one of three fabled islands in Eastern sea, abode of immortals
- (Chinese mythology) Penglai, one of three fabled islands in the Bohai sea, where immortals were said to live; (by extension) fairyland; see 蓬萊區|蓬莱区[Peng2 lai2 Qu1]
- (of an expanse of water) vast; distant and indistinct; tiny or insignificant
- to dream; to sleep
- Five Dynasties, period of history between the fall of the Tang dynasty (907) and the founding of the Song dynasty (960), when five would-be dynasties were established in quick succession in North China
- Records of the Grand Historian, by 司馬遷|司马迁[Si1 ma3 Qian1], first of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3]
- ancient stone acupuncture needle; to criticize; to pierce
- snobbish
- to revere; to admire; to honor; to venerate
- to pour liquid; to irrigate (using waterwheel); to water; to cast (molten metal); to mold
- 漓 lí: 漓 li2: pattering (of rain); seep through漓 lí: 漓 li2: to seep through漓 Lí: 漓 Li2: name of a river
- genuine; pure; honest
- see 天水市[Tian1 shui3 Shi4]
- a treasure; a rare and valuable thing
- benefit; advantage; profit; to be a benefit to
- to demote; to denounce
- lit. if thrown on the floor, it will make a sound (idiom); fig. (of one's words) powerful and resonating; to have substance
- to have no contact with; to be cut off from; (electricity) to insulate
- to steal; secretly; (humble) I
- 姚 Yáo: 姚 Yao2: surname Yao姚 yáo: 姚 yao2: handsome; good-looking
- to admire
- 民 Mín: 民 Min2: surname Min民 mín: 民 min2: (bound form) the people; inhabitants of a country
- person of foresight
- state system (i.e. form of government); national prestige
- monarch; sovereign
- or; could it be that...?
- until; while
- to clear up; to wipe out; to eradicate
- clear sky; blue sky; upright and honorable (official)
- that being the case; then; in that case
- not only; not merely
- arteries and veins; network of blood vessels; vascular system (of a plant or animal); (fig.) fabric (i.e. underlying structure, as in "social fabric"); overall context
- to admire wholeheartedly; to fall in love with
- to boast; to talk big