- (bound form) curtain; tent; canopy
- to teach; to bequeath
- 仆 pū: 仆 pu1: to fall forward; to fall prostrate仆 pú: 仆 pu2: servant
- to devote oneself to; to work toward (often followed by 於|于[yu2])
- elementary school; primary school
- elementary education
- ordinary people; commoner (contrasted with the privileged); civilian (contrasted with the military)
- to irrigate; to pour; to install (software); to record (music)
- father's father; paternal grandfather
- jewel; gem; treasure; precious
- to warn; to admonish
- father; also pr. [fu4 qin5]; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 干 Gān: 干 Gan1: surname Gan干 gān: 干 gan1: dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder干 gān: 干 gan1: (bound form) to have to do with; to concern oneself with; one of the ten heavenly stems 天干[tian1 gan1]; (archaic) shield干 gàn: 干 gan4: tree trunk; main part of sth; to manage; to work; to do; capable; cadre; to kill (slang); to fuck (vulgar); (coll.) pissed off; annoyed
- (bound form) to confer; to give; (bound form) to teach; to instruct; (literary) to appoint
- see 湖南省[Hu2 nan2 Sheng3]
- inspector-general of province in Ming and Qing times
- to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
- to feel deeply; acute suffering
- (historical) affairs of state at the imperial court
- corruption; to corrupt; to rot; rotten
- to forfeit sovereignty and humiliate the country (idiom); to surrender territory under humiliating terms
- to change the laws; political reform; unconventional method
- incident; event
- sixty; 60
- using this as a pretext; thereby
- rich and powerful
- abbr. for Hunan 湖南 province in south central China; abbr. for Xiangjiang river in Hunan province
- acute determination; dauntless
- to tidy up; to reorganize; to consolidate; to rectify
- the man (or woman) of the moment (idiom); influential figure
- Liang Qichao (1873-1929), influential journalist and a leader of the failed reform movement of 1898
- Huang Zunxian (1848-1905), Qing dynasty poet and diplomat, author of A Record of Japan 日本國誌|日本国志[Ri4 ben3 Guo2 zhi4], an extended analysis of Meiji Japan
- whole nation; nationwide; countrywide; national
- to focus attention upon
- mark; sign; label; to mark with a symbol, label, lettering etc; to bear (a brand name, registration number etc); prize; award; bid; target; quota; (old) the topmost branches of a tree; visible symptom; classifier for military units
- left and right; nearby; approximately; attendant; to control; to influence
- (literary) to aid; to assist
- to plot; to scheme; to bring about; to engineer; planning; producer; planner
- personal; oneself