- profane; secular; worldly
- imperial edict
- between the words and the lines (idiom); implied meaning; connotations
- (bound form) to penetrate; to seep through; to tell secretly; to leak; thoroughly; through and through; to appear; to show
- imperious; aggressive; assertive; dictatorial manner; boldness (CL:股[gu3])
- sth written or painted in one's own hand; (of a writer, calligrapher or painter) skill; style; hand; (fig.) style shown in spending money, handling business etc; scale
- to step on; to tread; to stamp; to press a pedal; to pedal (a bike); (online) to downvote
- to model; to mold; (fig.) to create (a character, a market, an image etc); (fig.) (literature) to portray (in words)
- long time ago; distant; far away
- to educate people (esp. morally)
- to assist (usually a ruler)
- son born of a concubine; disaster; sin; evil
- one's whole life; throughout one's life
- to do sth more quickly; Hurry up!; Get a move on!
- rattle drum; pellet drum – a hand drum with two pellets attached to strings on either side, mounted on a rod that is twirled to make the pellets strike the drum (used in ritual music, as a children's toy or as a street vendor's noisemaker)
- to leave the mountain (of a hermit); to come out of obscurity to a government job; to take a leading position
- to travel far away from home
- to guard against; to exhort; to admonish or warn; to give up or stop doing sth; Buddhist monastic discipline; ring (for a finger)
- lit. a donkey's lips do not match a horse's mouth (saying); fig. wide of the mark; irrelevant; incongruous
- Shakyamuni (Sanskrit for "the Sage of the Shakyas", i.e. the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama)
- must; to need to; to be sure to
- stone inscription; carved stone
- to infer; to gather
- to observe a religious fast; to abstain from food or certain activities before a ritual
- to drop (subject etc)
- to get it straight; to start to understand things properly; enlightenment dawns
- to dispatch an envoy
- imperial concubine
- to exclaim in admiration; a gasp of surprise
- rash; impudent
- see 鎮海區|镇海区[Zhen4 hai3 Qu1]
- June
- shoe
- to sow grain; (farm) crop