- 食 shí: 食 shi2: to eat; food; animal feed; eclipse食 sì: 食 si4: to feed (a person or animal)
- injurious insect; pest
- 孙子 sūn zi: 孙子 sun1 zi5: grandson; son's son孙子 Sūn zǐ: 孙子 Sun1 zi3: Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武|孙武[Sun1 Wu3] (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3], one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1]
- cockroach
- the classics; scriptures; classical; classic (example, case etc); typical
- to drink tea; to get engaged; to have a serious conversation; (fig.) to have a meeting with state security agents (to be warned to behave "responsibly")
- visitor; guest; object (in grammar)
- to be present
- (bound form) flesh; muscle
- all the more; even more; further
- well-developed; flourishing; to develop; to promote; to expand; (literary) to achieve fame and fortune; to prosper
- many; quite a lot; much better
- to absorb; to assimilate; to ingest; to recruit
- surname Song; the Song dynasty (960–1279); Song of the Southern Dynasties (420–479) 南朝宋[Nan2 chao2 Song4]
- Aalen, town in Germany
- sharp and unkind (words)
- to injure sb
- 语 yù: 语 yu4: (literary) to tell; to let (sb) know语 yǔ: 语 yu3: dialect; language; speech
- to burst with joy (idiom); to be over the moon; to be elated
- pedantic; trite; inflexible; adherence to old ideas
- to speak sarcastically; to make cutting remarks; also pr. [wa1 ku5]
- lit. extreme saturation (idiom); fig. vividly and thoroughly; in great detail; without restraint; (of a performance) brilliant
- to be compelled; to be forced
- old married couple
- obedient; to comply; to submit; to defer
- servant
- mother's mother; maternal grandmother
- tactful; euphemistic; (of voice etc) suave; soft
- as one wants; according to one's wishes; ruyi scepter, a symbol of power and good fortune
- to howl; to bellow; to yell
- bull
- people killed in battle
- monument
- an order (esp. army); bugle call expressing military order; verbal command
- all speaking together; in chorus
- to shout loudly
- to terrify
- formation (of troops); alignment; (computing) queue; cohort (in a study)
- carol
- standard; norm; criterion; (adjective) standard; good; correct; conforming to a standard
- therefore; as a result; thus; and as a result, ...
- to mention; to bring up; (lit. and fig.) to lift; to raise; to initiate (legal proceedings)
- to order; to force
- to retire (from the workforce); to go into retirement