- main topic; matter at hand
- prologue of play; opening remarks; preamble (of speeches, articles etc)
- 咱 zá: 咱 za2: see 咱[zan2]咱 zán: 咱 zan2: I or me; we (including both the speaker and the person spoken to)
- prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity; old (of people); venerable (person); experienced; of long standing; always; all the time; of the past; very; outdated; (of meat etc) tough
- copious; plentiful (of water); surging (of waves); refers to home village of first Han emperor 漢高祖|汉高祖[Han4 Gao1 zu3]; fig. majestic
- to know; to become aware of; also pr. [zhi1dao5]
- who; also pr. [shui2]
- home; homeland; native place; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 吗 ma: 吗 ma5: (question particle for "yes-no" questions)吗 má: 吗 ma2: (coll.) what?吗 mǎ: 吗 ma3: used in 嗎啡|吗啡[ma3 fei1]
- 大汉 Dà hàn: 大汉 Da4 han4: Han Dynasty大汉 dà hàn: 大汉 da4 han4: burly fellow
- to found a state; to open a closed country
- emperor; CL:個|个[ge4]
- Liu Bang (256 or 247-195 BC), bandit leader who became first Han emperor Han Gaozu 漢高祖|汉高祖 (reigned 202-195 BC)
- as it turns out; by lucky coincidence; (of number, time, size etc) just right
- we or us (including both the speaker and the person(s) spoken to); (dialect) I or me; (dialect) (in a coaxing or familiar way) you; also pr. [za2 men5]
- family name; surname; to be surnamed ...
- posthumous name of the first Han emperor Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 (256 or 247-195 BC), reigned 202-195 BC
- origin; source; relationship
- to detour; to bypass; to circumvent; to avoid; to wind around (of a road etc)
- to emit light; to shine; to glow; to glisten; to be luminous
- to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
- 看 kàn: 看 kan4: to see; to look at; to read; to watch; to visit; to call on; to consider; to regard as; to look after; to treat (a patient or illness); to depend on; to feel (that); (after a verb) to give it a try; to watch out for看 kān: 看 kan1: to look after; to take care of; to watch; to guard
- explanation; to explain; to interpret; to resolve; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to dispel doubts; to clear up confusion
- gaze; (fig.) attention; expression in one's eyes; look; (lit. and fig.) sight; vision
- normal; regular
- the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127)
- in between; within that interval; in the meantime
- Three Kingdoms period (220–280) in Chinese history; any of several Three Kingdoms periods in Korean history, esp. from 1st century AD to unification under Silla 新羅|新罗[Xin1 luo2] in 658
- the world in chaos; troubled times; (in Buddhism) the mortal world
- Eastern Jin dynasty 317-420
- 国 gúo: 国 guo2: country; nation; state; (bound form) national国 Gúo: 国 Guo2: surname Guo
- Sui (581-617) and Tang dynasties (618-907)
- Five Dynasties, period of history between the fall of the Tang dynasty (907) and the founding of the Song dynasty (960), when five would-be dynasties were established in quick succession in North China
- 太平 Tài píng: 太平 Tai4 ping2: see 太平區|太平区[Tai4 ping2 Qu1]太平 tài píng: 太平 tai4 ping2: peace and security
- day; a (calendar) date; days of one's life
- before; formerly; previous; ago
- blank space
- after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then
- as; as if; such as
- lit. after rain, the spring bamboo (idiom); fig. rapid new growth; many new things emerge in rapid succession
- more and more emerge; innumerable succession; breeding like flies (idiom)
- but; however; (used for emphasis) indeed
- lit. reputation will go down in history (idiom); fig. achievements will earn eternal glory
- to tell lies
- 当年 dàng nián: 当年 dang4 nian2: that very same year当年 dāng nián: 当年 dang1 nian2: in those days; back then; in those years; to be in the prime of life
- west; west side; western part; to the west of