- 诗 Shī: 诗 Shi1: abbr. for Shijing 詩經|诗经[Shi1 jing1], the Book of Songs诗 shī: 诗 shi1: poem; CL:首[shou3]; poetry; verse
- teacher; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to revere; to admire; to honor; to venerate
- 蹇 Jiǎn: 蹇 Jian3: surname Jian蹇 jiǎn: 蹇 jian3: lame; cripple; unfortunate; slow; difficult; nag (inferior horse); donkey; lame horse
- (bound form) to decay; to decline; to wane
- to move; to transport; to use; to apply; fortune; luck; fate
- to be obstructed; to be blocked up; to be impassable; to make no sense; to be illogical
- kettle; cauldron
- thunder rolls
- to know from experience; to learn through experience; to realize; understanding; experience
- to be cynical; to be embittered
- not able to see clearly
- ill luck; misfortune
- to regard as
- (idiom) to form a clique for self-serving purposes
- to be everywhere
- informer; snitch; spy; scout; (cosmetics) eye line
- by fair means or foul; by hook or by crook; unscrupulously
- information; intelligence
- lit. one action, two gains (idiom); fig. two birds with one stone
- comprehensive; thorough; to bring one's help; to assist
- neighboring; adjacent; near; vicinity
- 丘 Qīu: 丘 Qiu1: surname Qiu丘 qīu: 丘 qiu1: mound; hillock; grave; classifier for fields
- to ponder earnestly; to give a lot of thought to sth
- group; bloc; corporation; conglomerate
- to prohibit; to ban; to suppress
- to breathe; to suck in; to absorb; to inhale
- (loanword) opium
- 吕 lǚ: 吕 lu:3: pitchpipe, pitch standard, one of the twelve semitones in the traditional tone system吕 Lǚ: 吕 Lu:3: surname Lü
- to be at a distance of ... from; to be apart from; (bound form) distance; spur (on the leg of certain birds: gamecock, pheasant etc)
- by means of; through; with the help of
- tile-roofed house
- middle class; bourgeois
- to buy a house
- Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 7th July 1937, regarded as the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 抗日戰爭|抗日战争[Kang4 Ri4 Zhan4 zheng1]
- rich family; large landlord
- difficult; challenging; straitened circumstances; difficult situation
- nowhere to go; at the end of one's tether
- imperial kitchen