- Forest of Steles (museum in Xi'an); Beilin District of Xi’an 西安市[Xi1 an1 Shi4], Shaanxi
- eternal; everlasting; fig. to pass into eternity (i.e. to die)
- lit. to fire pots and smelt metal; fig. to educate
- to shed one's mortal body and exchange one's bones (idiom); born again Daoist; to turn over a new leaf; fig. to change wholly; to create from other material (story, artwork etc)
- to lift; to raise (a lid etc); (of a storm) to surge; to stir up (waves etc); (fig.) to trigger; set off (a wave of popularity, a controversy etc)
- city wall
- Shaanxi Province, capital Xi'an 西安市[Xi1 an1 Shi4] (short name 陝|陕[Shan3] or 秦[Qin2])
- to wait; to wait for
- immaculately dressed; well-groomed; dapper
- to hold one's breath (in anticipation) (idiom); to anxiously await
- to take the lead; to be first to start
- upright; honest; proper; correct
- to approach gradually
- to lower (one's voice)
- (idiom) (of two or more people) to take the same action without prior consultation; (usu. used adverbially) all (or both) of them, independently; as if by prior agreement
- to exhale slowly; to hiss; hush!
- in a short while; all at once; all of a sudden
- the wider world; diverse aspects of society
- to retrieve
- (haven't done sth) for a long time; a long time since we last met
- air of arrogance; haughtiness
- public finance; government finance
- in short supply; dire; tense; critical; hard-pressed; important
- there's not enough time (to do sth); it's too late
- yamen, government office in dynastic China
- for the past few years
- calamity; disaster; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to renovate; to repair (a building)
- seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be
- to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate; to set aside (money); to poke (the fire); to pluck (a string instrument); to turn round; classifier: group, batch
- (bound form) bamboo; Kangxi radical 118
- material for making clothes; CL:塊|块[kuai4]
- 奇 qí: 奇 qi2: strange; odd; weird; wonderful; surprisingly; unusually奇 jī: 奇 ji1: odd (number)