- moreover; in addition to that
- to block; to hinder; to obstruct
- five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la; five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: 喉音[hou2 yin1], 牙音[ya2 yin1], 舌音[she2 yin1], 齒音|齿音[chi3 yin1], 唇音[chun2 yin1]
- eye (CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1]); (often used with 一[yi1]) a look; a glance; small hole; (bound form) salient point; classifier for wells, cave-dwellings etc
- (literary) acute (of hearing); (bound form) clever; intelligent; sharp
- snare drum
- drum; CL:通[tong4],面[mian4]; to drum; to strike; to rouse; to bulge; to swell
- both sides; either side
- to sew; to stitch together; to combine; to link; to connect; to put words together; to compose; to embellish
- flexible; nimble; agile
- to shake; to sway
- double-sided; two-faced; double-edged; reversible
- commonly referred to as; common term
- rattle drum; pellet drum – a hand drum with two pellets attached to strings on either side, mounted on a rod that is twirled to make the pellets strike the drum (used in ritual music, as a children's toy or as a street vendor's noisemaker)
- to set up; to establish
- to slander; to defame; to speak ill of
- city gate
- to write
- lack; deficiency; shortcoming; flaw; defect; to be deficient; to lack
- 否 fǒu: 否 fou3: to negate; to deny; not否 pǐ: 否 pi3: clogged; evil
- to bend an ear (to); to listen
- to focus one's attention; to concentrate on (doing sth)
- to expect; to look forward to; anxious for sth; to hope (to get sth)
- to look forward to; to await; expectation
- correct; sound; right; proper
- servant
- mow grass
- to chop firewood; to gather firewood
- forebears
- 计 Jì: 计 Ji4: surname Ji计 jì: 计 ji4: to calculate; to compute; to count; to regard as important; to plan; ruse; meter; gauge
- feasible
- low status; lowly; to lower (one's head)
- dialect; language; spoken words; speech; talk; words; conversation; what sb said; CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]
- to censure
- to cover up; to conceal; to mask; to gloss over
- to decorate; to adorn; to dress up; to polish (a written piece); to qualify or modify (grammar)
- classical story or quote from the literature; the story behind sth
- 朱 zhū: 朱 zhu1: vermilion朱 Zhū: 朱 Zhu1: surname Zhu朱 zhū: 朱 zhu1: (bound form) cinnabar
- Chinese scholar tree (Sophora japonica); Japanese pagoda tree
- 里 lǐ: 里 li3: lining; interior; inside; internal; also written 裏|里[li3]里 Lǐ: 里 Li3: Li (surname)里 lǐ: 里 li3: li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m; neighborhood; ancient administrative unit of 25 families; (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels