- to remonstrate; to warn earnestly (esp. classical written Chinese); to exhort
- to encourage
- to guide; to lead (around); to conduct; to boot; introduction; primer
- appearance; facial features
- to have an audience (with the Emperor)
- often; frequently
- terrified
- helpless
- to come (formal); before; previously
- to play music; to achieve; to present a memorial to the emperor (old)
- deliberately; on purpose
- to make use of; to use sth as pretext; under false pretenses; under the guise of; masquerading as; lenient; tolerant; loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters); character acquiring meanings by phonetic association; also called phonetic loan
- color; countenance; appearance; facial expression; pigment; dyestuff
- to hope; a hope; a wish
- with this; thereby; thus; because of this
- see 諍諫|诤谏[zheng4 jian4]
- church and state; government and education; political education
- enlightened; open-minded; enlightenment
- to have become common practice (idiom); to become a general trend
- straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns
- Yao Silian (557-637), Tang writer and compiler of 梁書|梁书[Liang2 shu1] and 陳書|陈书[Chen2 shu1]
- even; so much so that
- empress; imperial consort
- imperial concubine
- 徐 xú: 徐 xu2: slowly; gently徐 Xú: 徐 Xu2: surname Xu
- harem; chambers of imperial concubines
- next in sequence; second; the second (day, time etc); secondary; vice-; sub-; infra-; inferior quality; substandard; order; sequence; hypo- (chemistry); classifier for enumerated events: time
- to exceed; to go beyond; to transcend; to cross over; to jump over
- to have; to have always had
- gall bladder; courage; guts; gall; inner container (e.g. bladder of a football, inner container of a thermos)
- to meet by chance; to come across; (of a calendar event) to come along; (of an event) to fall on (a particular day); to fawn upon
- 赫 Hè: 赫 He4: surname He赫 hè: 赫 he4: awe-inspiring; abbr. for 赫茲|赫兹[he4 zi1], hertz (Hz)
- 怒 Nù: 怒 Nu4: Nu ethnic group怒 nù: 怒 nu4: anger; fury; flourishing; vigorous
- expression; look
- to move; to shift; to change; to alter; to remove
- to liken to; to compare to
- to look in the mirror
- copper (chemistry); see also 紅銅|红铜[hong2 tong2]; CL:塊|块[kuai4]
- hat and clothes; attire
- evidently; clearly; no wonder; knowable
- rise and fall