- humanity; human race; mankind
- to benefit (e.g. the people)
- Wang Yangming (1472-1529), Ming dynasty Neo-Confucian philosopher, influential in the School of Mind 心學|心学[xin1 xue2]
- bright; smart; quick-witted; heart; thoughts; spirit
- to recollect; to remember; memory
- to hate; to regret
- road; path; way; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- polite term for old woman or man
- homeless and miserable (idiom); to wander about in a desperate plight; to drift
- strip; item; article; clause (of law or treaty); classifier for long thin things (ribbon, river, road, trousers etc)
- intimate; close
- reception (of transmitted signal); to receive; to accept; to admit; to take over (e.g. a factory); to expropriate
- to order; to command; an order; a command; an instruction
- 小子 xiǎo zi: 小子 xiao3 zi5: (coll.) boy; (derog.) joker; guy; (despicable) fellow小子 xiǎo zǐ: 小子 xiao3 zi3: (literary) youngster; (old) young fellow (term of address used by the older generation); (old) I, me (used in speaking to one's elders)
- usefulness; CL:個|个[ge4]
- bad person; villain
- in the final analysis; ultimately
- to act on; to affect; action; function; activity; impact; result; effect; purpose; intent; (suffix) -ation, -tion etc, as in 抑制作用[yi4 zhi4 zuo4 yong4], inhibition
- to implement; to carry out; to put into practice
- needless; unnecessary
- policy; CL:個|个[ge4]
- only remaining of the great (idiom); one of the few greats extant
- to work together
- prison
- to metamorphose (biology); abnormal; perverted; hentai; (slang) pervert
- classifier for trees, cabbages, plants etc
- to lean on; to rest against; to rely on; support; backing; back of a chair
- 论 lùn: 论 lun4: opinion; view; theory; doctrine; to discuss; to talk about; to regard; to consider; per; by the (kilometer, hour etc)论 Lún: 论 Lun2: abbr. for 論語|论语[Lun2 yu3], The Analects (of Confucius)
- south; southern direction; (in China) southern regions, often referring to areas south of the Yangtze River
- (of plants) withered; (of wells, rivers etc) dried up; (bound form) dull; boring; (bound form) residue of pressed oilseeds
- in turn; successively; one after the other; bit by bit
- to eliminate
- 辽 liáo: 辽 liao2: (bound form) distant; faraway辽 Liáo: 辽 Liao2: short name for Liaoning 遼寧|辽宁[Liao2 ning2] province; Liao or Khitan dynasty (916-1125)
- to seize control of (an enemy position); (fig.) to take by storm; to gain (awards, control of a market etc)
- the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127)
- Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang
- to the south of (suffix)