- 坛 tán: 坛 tan2: altar; platform; rostrum; (bound form) (sporting, literary etc) circles; world坛 tán: 坛 tan2: earthen jar
- to fall down; to decay; to fall from the sky; to die
- glistening; bright
- comet
- to resist; to rebel
- unresolved question; unresolved case
- definite; exact; precise
- November; eleventh month (of the lunar year)
- Central Daily News
- supplement
- serialized; published as a serial (in a newspaper)
- pot; classifier for bottled liquid
- to reprint; reproduction; pirate copy; (fig.) imitation; carbon copy; clone
- communist bandit (i.e. PLA soldier (during the civil war) or Chinese communist (Tw))
- Defense secretary; Defense Minister
- to commemorate; to recall fondly; to think of the past
- a flood of tears and mucus; broken-hearted and weeping bitterly
- (literary) translucent stone similar to jade; (literary) luster of jade
- wise; a sage
- big; large; great
- 劳 Láo: 劳 Lao2: surname Lao劳 láo: 劳 lao2: (bound form) to toil; labor; (bound form) laborer; (bound form) meritorious deed; (bound form) fatigue; to put sb to the trouble (of doing sth); (bound form) to express appreciation for sb's efforts (Taiwan pr. [lao4])
- grand; heroic
- 牟 Móu: 牟 Mou2: surname Mou牟 móu: 牟 mou2: barley; to moo; to seek or obtain牟 Mù: 牟 Mu4: see 牟平[Mu4 ping2]
- to have an abundance
- to weigh down; to trouble; to implicate (sb); tied down (by affairs)
- to grieve for deceased relative; to mourn
- to fall into enemy hands; to be occupied; to degenerate; to submerge
- prejudiced; narrow-minded
- 庄子 zhuāng zi: 庄子 zhuang1 zi5: (coll.) village; hamlet; CL:座[zuo4]庄子 Zhuāng zǐ: 庄子 Zhuang1 zi3: Zhuangzi (369-286 BC), Daoist author
- Xunzi, (c. 310-237 BC), Confucian philosopher; the Xunzi, a collection of philosophical writings attributed to Xunzi
- Buddhist texts; Buddhist scripture
- to describe (in writing, applying ink)
- my old illness; chronic condition
- father's elder brother; term of respect for older man; CL:個|个[ge4]
- an older generation; ancestors; forefathers
- mother
- Zeng Guofan (1811-1872), Qing dynasty politician and military man