- ample scope for abilities; favorable position for the use of one's skills (idiom)
- to embark; to travel by ship; to ferry
- Fusang, mythical island of ancient literature, often interpreted as Japan
- to build (esp. with simple materials); to knock together (a temporary shed); to rig up
- ordinary; to use
- stage
- to put up; to build (scaffolding); to hang (clothes on a pole); to connect; to join; to arrange in pairs; to match; to add; to throw in (resources); to take (boat, train)
- to perform in opera
- (of skies or one's mood) gloomy
- heavy; hard; serious; critical
- feces; excrement; a stool; (bound form) secretion (of the ear, eye etc)
- to give rise to; to derive; derivative; derivation
- ninth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; ninth in order; letter "I" or Roman "IX" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; ancient Chinese compass point: 345°; nona
- the ninth heaven; the highest of the heavens
- oar
- the Milky Way
- good and bad luck (in astrology)
- learning; knowledge; scholarship; a body of specialized knowledge (CL:門|门[men2]); (fig.) any activity that demands expertise, skill or experience (e.g. gathering forensic evidence, selecting clothing, managing relationships)
- the 10 heavenly stems 甲[jia3], 乙[yi3], 丙[bing3], 丁[ding1], 戊[wu4], 己[ji3], 庚[geng1], 辛[xin1], 壬[ren2], 癸[gui3], used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
- alone; independent; single; sole; only
- 属 zhǔ: 属 zhu3: to join together; to fix one's attention on; to concentrate on属 shǔ: 属 shu3: category; genus (taxonomy); family members; dependents; to belong to; subordinate to; affiliated with; be born in the year of (one of the 12 animals); to be; to prove to be; to constitute
- positive (electric.); sun; male principle (Taoism); Yang, opposite: 陰|阴[yin1]
- (used before 不少[bu4 shao3] or 不多[bu4 duo1]) in terms of quantity; (before a number) numbering; amounting to
- to begin; to start; then; only then
- to entrust; to place in sb's care; (bound form) to depend on; to attach oneself to; to reside temporarily; (bound form) foster (as in 寄女[ji4 nu : 3] foster daughter); to send by post; to mail
- 宫 gōng: 宫 gong1: palace; temple; castration (as corporal punishment); first note in pentatonic scale宫 Gōng: 宫 Gong1: surname Gong
- 於 yú: 於 yu2: (of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by於 Yū: 於 Yu1: surname Yu; Taiwan pr. [Yu2]於 wū: 於 wu1: (literary) Oh!; Ah!
- 12th earthly branch: 9-11 p.m., 10th solar month (7th November-6th December), year of the Boar; ancient Chinese compass point: 330°
- 乾 Qián: 乾 Qian2: surname Qian乾 qián: 乾 qian2: one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing heaven; male principle; ☰; ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)乾 gān: 乾 gan1: dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder乾 Gān: 乾 Gan1: surname Gan
- 易 yì: 易 yi4: easy; amiable; to change; to exchange; prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible"易 Yì: 易 Yi4: surname Yi; I Ching; Book of Changes (abbr. for 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1])
- divinatory diagram; one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]; one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]
- head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc
- the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] and twelve earthly branches 十二枝; sexagenary cycle
- to match; to fit; to pair well
- sixty; 60
- 60 years (of age); see 花蛤[hua1 ge2]
- forty-ninth year I1 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1972 or 2032
- thirty-ninth year I3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1962 or 2022
- twenty-ninth year I5 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2012 or 2072
- nineteenth year I7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2002 or 2062
- ninth year I9 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1992 or 2052
- fifty-ninth year I11 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1982 or 2042
- happening; instance; reason; cause; intentional; former; old; friend; therefore; hence; (of people) to die, dead
- to appear; to look; form; shape
- 诸 Zhū: 诸 Zhu1: surname Zhu诸 zhū: 诸 zhu1: all; various