- to make a breakthrough; to break through; to breach (military)
- brave; heroic
- life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc
- 倒 dǎo: 倒 dao3: to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow; to change (trains or buses); to move around; to resell at a profit倒 dào: 倒 dao4: to invert; to place upside down or frontside back; to pour out; to tip out; to dump; inverted; upside down; reversed; to go backward; contrary to what one might expect; but; yet
- 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
- 好 hào: 好 hao4: to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to好 hǎo: 好 hao3: good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello
- 赵 Zhào: 赵 Zhao4: surname Zhao; one of the seven states during the Warring States period (476–220 BC); the Former Zhao 前趙|前赵[Qian2 Zhao4] (304–329) and Later Zhao 後趙|后赵[Hou4 Zhao4] (319–350), states of the Sixteen Kingdoms赵 zhào: 赵 zhao4: to surpass (old)
- surname Song; the Song dynasty (960–1279); Song of the Southern Dynasties (420–479) 南朝宋[Nan2 chao2 Song4]
- royal family; imperial household; member of the royal family
- Zhao Gou (1107-1187), personal name of the tenth Song Emperor Gaozong 宋高宗[Song4 Gao1 zong1] (reigned 1127-1162)
- to establish; to set up; to found
- the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
- regime; political power
- Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang
- meritorious service; distinguished contribution; achievement of great merit
- one of (sth); one out of a multitude; one (third, quarter, percent etc)
- 封 fēng: 封 feng1: to confer; to grant; to bestow a title; to seal; classifier for sealed objects, esp. letters封 Fēng: 封 Feng1: surname Feng
- 杨 yáng: 杨 yang2: poplar杨 Yáng: 杨 Yang2: surname Yang
- to give as a present; to repel; to bestow an honorary title after death (old)
- imperial tutor
- (not) ever again; (not) any longer
- battlefield; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 露 Lù: 露 Lu4: surname Lu露 lòu: 露 lou4: to show; to reveal; to betray; to expose露 lù: 露 lu4: dew; syrup; nectar; outdoors (not under cover); to show; to reveal; to betray; to expose
- (not only ...) but also; moreover; in addition; furthermore
- ring of light; halo; (fig.) glory; splendor
- day by day; more and more; increasingly; more and more with each passing day
- surname Yao; Yao or Tang Yao (c. 2200 BC), one of the Five legendary Emperors 五帝[Wu3 Di4], second son of Di Ku 帝嚳|帝喾[Di4 Ku4]
- humane; kernel
- governor (of a province or colony); (US) state governor; (Australian) state premier
- genealogical record; family history; lineage
- to calculate; to figure out; to include; to count in; to count; to be valid; to carry weight; to regard as; to consider (to be ...)
- offspring; posterity
- to abandon; to relinquish; to discard; to throw away
- 文 Wén: 文 Wen2: surname Wen文 wén: 文 wen2: language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67
- to change into; to turn into; to become
- Confucius' school (i.e. his direct disciples)
- disciple; follower
- to change; to alter; to transform; to correct
- to change; to alter; to transform
- circumstance
- clan
- as before; still; to remain the same