- to audit; to verify; to examine; auditing
- to investigate and find out; to ascertain
- to negotiate (with); to have dealings (with)
- to sell; to offer for sale; to put on the market
- expense; cost; to spend (time or money); expenditure
- funds; a sum of money; CL:宗[zong1]
- to recycle; to reclaim; to retrieve; to recover; to recall (a defective product)
- to donate
- pentagon
- interesting and appealing (of old locations, objects etc)
- red wood; mahogany; rosewood; padauk
- furniture; CL:件[jian4],套[tao4]
- wordless and uncommunicative (idiom); without speaking; taciturn; not providing any news
- master; host; owner; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to wash off
- the Four Cleanups Movement (1963-66); abbr. for 四清運動|四清运动[Si4 qing1 Yun4 dong4]
- city and countryside
- education reform (abbr. for 教育改革[jiao4 yu4 gai3 ge2])
- hubbub; clamor; to make a racket
- still; peaceful; quiet
- (physics) inertia; (fig.) force of habit; tendency to do things in the accustomed way; habitual
- the daily life of a family
- to come true; to come about as predicted; to be fulfilled
- to expect; to await
- first half
- December; twelfth month (of the lunar year)
- flourishing; prosperous; suddenly; abruptly
- the Third (of numbered kings)
- sketchy; concise; abbreviated
- genre; style; form of writing
- Sima Guang (1019-1086), politician and historian of Northern Song, author of Comprehensive Mirror for aid in Government 資治通鑒|资治通鉴