- progress; improvement; to improve; to progress
- classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several
- day; a (calendar) date; days of one's life
- high-ranking officials in the court of a Chinese emperor
- and so on; and such
- recently; lately
- 闲暇 xián xiá: 闲暇 xian2 xia2: leisure; free time; unoccupied; not in use闲暇 xián xiá: 闲暇 xian2 xia2: leisure
- to take up one's pen; to start to write
- to write down
- what one has learned (through experience, reading etc); knowledge; insight; understanding; tips; CL:項|项[xiang4],個|个[ge4]
- final name of the Shang dynasty after their move to Yinxu 殷墟 in modern Henan province
- to divide (into); to split a bonus; to break into; tenths; percentage allotment
- reverie; daydream; to be lost in wild and fanciful thoughts
- 绵 mián: 绵 mian2: silk floss; continuous; soft; weak; mild-mannered (dialect)绵 mián: 绵 mian2: cotton
- blind in one eye; blind; tiny; humble; to stare
- (used in the names of grand buildings such as 百老匯大廈|百老汇大厦 Broadway Mansions (in Shanghai) or 帝國大廈|帝国大厦 Empire State Building etc)
- very large; huge; tremendous; gigantic; (coll.) very; extremely
- antiphon (i.e. solo voice answered by chorus); sung reply (in agreement with first voice); to reply with a poem in the same rhythm
- to be interdependent
- work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labor
- 裨 pí: 裨 pi2: subordinate; secondary; small裨 bì: 裨 bi4: to benefit; to aid; advantageous; profitable裨 Pí: 裨 Pi2: surname Pi
- to obey; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing wood and wind; ☴; ancient Chinese compass point: 135° (southeast)
- precious thing; treasure; culinary delicacy; rare; valuable; to value highly
- to give as a present; to repel; to bestow an honorary title after death (old)
- to warn; to admonish
- rustic; low; base; mean; to despise; to scorn
- to look carefully
- to peer; to scan; to examine carefully
- the wise and learned individuals of the past
- On Encountering Sorrow, poem by Qu Yuan 屈原[Qu1 Yuan2] in Songs of Chu 楚辭|楚辞[Chu3 ci2]
- to speak out boldly
- (particle in old Chinese similar to 啊)
- profane; secular; worldly
- thigh; part of a whole; portion of a sum; (finance) stock; share; strand of a thread; low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科[ke1]; classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc; classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff; classifier for bands of people, gangs etc; classifier for sudden forceful actions
- upper arm; arm