- to have; to own; to hold; to occupy; to possess; to account for (a high proportion etc)
- owner peasant; land-holding peasant
- tenant farmer; sharecropper
- (lit.) gathering place of fish or other creatures; (fig.) haunt; lair; nest; den; hotbed
- to neglect; to overlook; to ignore
- producer (of goods, commodities or farm produce etc); manufacturer; (biology) autotroph
- 比 bǐ: 比 bi3: to compare; (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun}; ratio; to gesture; (Taiwan pr. [bi4] in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese)比 Bǐ: 比 Bi3: Belgium; Belgian; abbr. for 比利時|比利时[Bi3 li4 shi2]
- neighboring; adjacent; near; vicinity
- to lend money (for interest); to give credit
- to collect rent
- to exploit; to practice usury
- to improve; to make better; improvement
- tight knot; intractable problem
- the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties
- empire; imperial
- facilities; installation
- in simple terms; to put things simply; briefly
- Ministry of Revenue in imperial China
- centralized state power
- to supervise; to oversee; to inspect
- to bear (responsibility); to take on; to assume
- in all parts of (a country); various regions
- to arrange in order; to line up; to exclude; to eliminate; to repel; to expel; to discharge; (literary) to push aside; to force open; to rehearse; row; line; platoon; (bound form) steak; chop; (bound form) raft; classifier for rows or lines (of people or things)
- county; (Japan) prefecture
- 千 qiān: 千 qian1: thousand千 qiān: 千 qian1: used in 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]
- stump; stake; pile; classifier for events, cases, transactions, affairs etc
- amount; quantity; quantitative; (math.) scalar quantity
- to pay (taxes or dues)
- to receive; to accept
- middle-ranking
- among the people; popular; folk; non-governmental; involving people rather than governments
- to induce; to encourage; to provide guidance; (medicine, chemistry) to induce
- to control; to curb; to restrict; to impede; to pin down (enemy troops)
- public and private (interests, initiative etc)
- property; belongings
- civil law
- modernity
- to prop up; to support; strut; brace
- every kind of; all kinds of; various
- yamen, government office in dynastic China
- superficial; shallow
- to revise; to amend; to rectify
- to sway; to waver; to rock; to rattle; to destabilize; to pose a challenge to
- the people
- low; beneath; to lower (one's head); to let droop; to hang down; to incline
- 薄 báo: 薄 bao2: thin; cold in manner; indifferent; weak; light; infertile薄 bó: 薄 bo2: meager; slight; weak; ungenerous or unkind; frivolous; to despise; to belittle; to look down on; to approach or near薄 bò: 薄 bo4: see 薄荷[bo4 he5]薄 Bó: 薄 Bo2: surname Bo