- border; boundary
- 殷 yān: 殷 yan1: dark red殷 Yīn: 殷 Yin1: surname Yin; dynasty name at the end the Shang dynasty, after its move to Yinxu 殷墟[Yin1 xu1] in present-day Henan殷 yīn: 殷 yin1: flourishing; abundant; earnest; hospitable殷 yǐn: 殷 yin3: roll of thunder
- to change suddenly; to change abruptly
- race; nationality; ethnicity; clan; by extension, social group (e.g. office workers 上班族)
- to think over; to consider; anxiety
- to survey; to measure; to conjecture
- deep or shallow; depth (of the sea); limits of decorum
- (idiom) matchless; without equal; there is nothing better
- to be stupid; to cheat or deceive; me or I (modest)
- not without
- desirable; worth having; (of a suggestion etc) commendable; worthy
- dangerous; also pr. [yan2]
- 危 wēi: 危 wei1: danger; to endanger; Taiwan pr. [wei2]危 Wēi: 危 Wei1: surname Wei
- absurd; fantastic; presumptuous; rash
- disrespectful; (literary) ditch
- (literary) not; used in transliteration
- to say, without careful consideration
- is it possible or not?
- meritorious deed or service; achievement; result; service; accomplishment; work (physics)
- previously; formerly; once upon a time
- to mend one's ways
- to put to death
- effect; efficacy; to imitate
- no good; not good for; not beneficial
- ignorant; uneducated; ignorance
- to drip; to strain or filter; a trickle
- cannot bear or stand; be unequal to; very; extremely
- to tremble; shudder
- to neglect; to overlook; to disregard; to ignore
- to eliminate; to scrap
- to interrupt; to break off; to break (a bone)
- to appoint; to assign
- to submerge; to immerse; to sink; to keep down; to lower; to drop; deep; profound; heavy
- frenetic; hurried
- to come back out of retirement; to get involved again after having withdrawn
- to lose one's life; to get killed
- energy; capabilities