- dyke; embankment; pool or pond; hot-water bathing pool
- 邸 Dǐ: 邸 Di3: surname Di邸 dǐ: 邸 di3: (bound form) residence of a high-ranking official
- 京 Jīng: 京 Jing1: surname Jing; short name for Beijing 北京[Bei3 jing1]; Gin or Jing, ethnic minority of China, descendants of ethnic Vietnamese people living mainly in Guangxi; Kinh, the ethnic majority in Vietnam京 jīng: 京 jing1: capital city of a country; big; algebraic term for a large number (old); artificial mound (old)
- relay station for post horses (old)
- along the sides of the road; by the wayside
- to replace; to take over (a position or post)
- to send (a message); to deliver
- urgent; emergency
- military situation; military intelligence
- newspaper; newsprint; CL:份[fen4],期[qi1],張|张[zhang1]
- 公差 gōng chāi: 公差 gong1 chai1: official errand; bailiff in a yamen公差 gōng chā: 公差 gong1 cha1: tolerance (allowed error); common difference (of an arithmetic series)
- to take (a ship, plane etc); to ride (in a train or other vehicle)
- post horse
- black horse with white mane; fearful
- medium sized
- pheasant; unregistered and operating illegally (business); (slang) prostitute
- hare; rabbit; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- to run
- fast; high-speed; rapid
- lieutenant general; vice admiral; air marshal
- January; first month (of the lunar year)
- fourth; four times; quartic
- (of an elderly person) alive and in good health; (of a thing) intact; holding up OK; still going strong
- sometimes
- to visit (a patient, prisoner etc); to look inquiringly
- from morning till night; from dawn to dusk; all day long
- to go down south
- (old) territories beyond the Great Wall
- to go hunting
- apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他,誰也沒來|除了他,谁也没来[chu2 le5 ta1 , shei2 ye3 mei2 lai2] "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語,他也會法語|除了英语,他也会法语[chu2 le5 Ying1 yu3 , ta1 ye3 hui4 Fa3 yu3] "in addition to English, he also knows French"); (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了[chu2 le5] + A + 就是[jiu4 shi4] + B, "either A or B")
- to convey; to deliver; to transmit
- court eunuch; palace eunuch
- dealings; contacts; to go back and forth
- Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus), species of deer native to China that is critically endangered
- Siberian roe deer (Capreolus pygargus)
- to restrict; to restrain; constrained; awkward; ill at ease; uncomfortable; reticent
- 和顺 Hé shùn: 和顺 He2 shun4: see 和順縣|和顺县[He2 shun4 Xian4]和顺 hé shùn: 和顺 he2 shun4: sweet-tempered; acquiescent
- at ease; to feel relieved; to set one's mind at rest; to keep one's mind on sth
- temple name of fifth Ming emperor Xuande 宣德[Xuan1 de2]