- (bound form) father; (bound form) male relative of father's generation (as in 伯父[bo2 fu4]); (computing) (bound form) parent-
- the late Qing; late 19th and early 20th century China
- son of an official; son of nobility; your son (honorific)
- well-known; famous; renowned; eminent
- paternal aunt; husband's sister; husband's mother (old); nun; for the time being (literary)
- Tan Sitong (1865-1898), Qing writer and politician, one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898
- poetry and literature
- to be widely known as
- Ministry of Appointments (in imperial China)
- 满 Mǎn: 满 Man3: Manchu ethnic group满 mǎn: 满 man3: to fill; full; filled; packed; fully; completely; quite; to reach the limit; to satisfy; satisfied; contented
- the whole world; throughout the land; everything under the sun
- to praise; to acclaim; reputation
- old calendar; the Chinese lunar calendar; same as 農曆|农历[nong2 li4]
- New Year's Day in the lunar calendar
- to write personally; personal letter
- Spring Festival couplet (the first line of which is pasted on the right side of a doorway at New Year, and the second on the left side)
- (bound form) to ally oneself with; to unite; to combine; to join; (bound form) (poetry) antithetical couplet
- spring breeze; (fig.) pleasant demeanor; serene atmosphere; favorable conditions; (literary) romantic encounter; an affair
- (literary) one's students
- to strive for; to vie for; to argue or debate; deficient or lacking (dialect); how or what (literary)
- immortal
- to exchange; to change (clothes etc); to substitute; to switch; to convert (currency)
- classical story or quote from the literature; the story behind sth
- father and son
- an era; an age; a generation
- historian
- the opposite sex; of the opposite sex; heterosexual; different in nature
- to make friends
- to view as; to see as; to consider to be; to deem
- odd; strange; uncanny; (bound form) monster; supernatural being; to find strange; to regard as odd; to blame; (coll.) somewhat; rather
- hasn't yet; hasn't ever
- marriage
- to join the faculty of one's alma mater upon graduation; to remain at school during vacation
- words from the bottom of one's heart
- universally shocking; to offend the whole of society
- husband
- children; sons and daughters; a young man and a young woman (in love)
- to sacrifice one's life; to sacrifice (sth valued); beast slaughtered as a sacrifice