- Xu Xiake (1587-1641), Ming dynasty travel writer and geographer, author of Xu Xiake's Travel Diaries 徐霞客遊記|徐霞客游记[Xu2 Xia2 ke4 You2 ji4]
- erhua form of 哥們|哥们[ge1 men5]
- relay station for post horses (old)
- to write down
- Sima Qian (145-86 BC), Han Dynasty historian, author of Records of the Grand Historian 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4], known as the father of Chinese historiography
- Records of the Grand Historian, by 司馬遷|司马迁[Si1 ma3 Qian1], first of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3]
- lit. to see only the other rider's dust and have no hope of catching up (idiom); to be far inferior
- to castrate; fig. to emasculate
- trip; journey; tourism; travel; tour; to travel
- 景 jǐng: 景 jing3: (bound form) scenery; circumstance; situation; scene (of a play); (literary) sunlight景 Jǐng: 景 Jing3: surname Jing
- north; north side; northern part; to the north of
- extremely ugly; incomparably hideous
- to bury
- temple; monastery; shrine
- beggar
- 服 fú: 服 fu2: clothes; dress; garment; to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc); to obey; to be convinced (by an argument); to convince; to admire; to acclimatize; to take (medicine); mourning clothes; to wear mourning clothes服 fù: 服 fu4: classifier for medicine: dose; Taiwan pr. [fu2]
- kasaya (robe of a Buddhist monk or nun) (loanword from Sanskrit)
- Buddhist monk
- (of a group of people or a convoy of vehicles) to set off
- to celebrate
- see 丹徒區|丹徒区[Dan1 tu2 Qu1]
- see 鎮江市|镇江市[Zhen4 jiang1 Shi4]
- to get to know sb; to meet sb for the first time
- you might as well (do it); simply; just
- to settle (in some city, country etc); to take up residence
- wind, flower, snow and moon, trite poetry subject (idiom); effete language without substance; love affair; romance is in the air; dissipated life
- to screen (a movie); to stage (a play); a screening; a staging
- to burgeon; to produce; to conceive; to be in the initial stage
- to appear before (one's eyes); to come to (one's mind)
- eyes (in literature); eyesight
- to become damaged
- degree; level; extent
- current situation
- literature
- matching; fitting in with; compatible with; to correspond; to fit; to conform to; rapport; to coordinate with; to act in concert with; to cooperate; to become man and wife; to combine parts of machine
- melancholy; gloomy
- the end of the year; year-end
- to feel sad; to feel unwell; (of life) to be difficult
- unemployed; jobless; out of work
- to float on the current; to drift along or about; rafting