- Chinese character(s)
- nonstandard form of a Chinese character
- variant Chinese character
- to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters using Pinyin or Bopomofo etc; phonetic notation; (specifically) Bopomofo (abbr. for 注音符號|注音符号[zhu4 yin1 fu2 hao4])
- the meaning of sth; an explanation of the meaning of words or phrases; definition; an interpretation (of doctrine); religious doctrine
- to revise; to amend; to rectify
- short name for Shaanxi 陝西|陕西[Shan3 xi1]
- Xia County or Xiaxian, a county in Yuncheng City 運城市|运城市[Yun4 cheng2 Shi4], Shanxi
- historian
- writer; man of letters; CL:個|个[ge4]
- Shuowen Jiezi, the earliest systematic Chinese character dictionary, compiled by Xu Shen 許慎|许慎[Xu3 Shen4] in the Eastern Han dynasty (2nd century), containing 10,516 entries
- genre; style; form of writing
- accent (of a word); stress (on a syllable)
- see 吳興區|吴兴区[Wu2 xing1 Qu1]
- Kang County or Kangxian, a county in Longnan City 隴南市|陇南市[Long3 nan2 Shi4], Gansu
- see 德清縣|德清县[De2 qing1 Xian4]
- tuning; temperament; music
- the four tones of Middle Chinese: level tone 平聲|平声, rising tone 上聲|上声, departing tone 去聲|去声 and entering tone 入聲|入声; the four tones of Modern Standard Mandarin
- to adjust; to regulate; to harmonize; to reconcile (accountancy etc)
- verse (as opposed to prose 散文[san3 wen2])
- antithesis (two lines of poetry matching in sense and sound); to fight; to wage war
- freedom; liberty; free; unrestricted
- a pre-Tang Dynasty genre of poetry, relatively free in form, usually having four, five, six or seven characters per line
- forms of versification; conventions regarding set number of words and lines, choice of tonal patterns and rhyme schemes for various types of Classical Chinese poetic composition; metrical verse
- a genre of poetry, developed in the Tang Dynasty, characterized by its strict form
- chart; list; table; register; score (music); spectrum (physics); to set to music
- 訾 zī: 訾 zi1: to calculate; to assess; wealth訾 zǐ: 訾 zi3: to slander; to detest訾 Zī: 訾 Zi1: surname Zi
- to comment on; to discuss; comment; commentary; CL:篇[pian1]
- Song Lian (1310-1381), Ming dynasty writer, historian and politician
- music; rhyme and rhythm; initial, 音[yin1], and final and tone, 韻|韵[yun4], of a Chinese character; phoneme
- 撇 piē: 撇 pie1: to cast away; to fling aside撇 piě: 撇 pie3: to throw; to cast; left-slanting downward brush stroke (calligraphy)
- vowel
- to pronounce; pronunciation; to emit sound
- stream of air; airflow; slipstream; draft; breath; turbulence (of aircraft)