- official rank and salary
- a poem; a composition in verse; fig. epic (compared with historical epic); the biblical Book of Psalms
- waist
- to decorate; to adorn; to dress up; to disguise oneself
- bearing; manner; mien
- to sneer
- to shake off; to get rid of
- (bound form) to decrease; to diminish; (bound form) to harm; to damage; (coll.) to ridicule; to deride; (coll.) mean; nasty; sarcastic
- sharp and unkind (words)
- to stop; to halt; to park (a car)
- water surface
- moist
- ice-cold
- chest
- to take up one's pen; to start to write
- non-Han people, esp. to the East of China; barbarians; to wipe out; to exterminate; to tear down; to raze
- great-grandfather; (old) grandfather; father
- source (esp. of quotation or literary allusion); origin; where sth comes from
- demonic; iniquitous; nefarious; evil; unhealthy influences that cause disease (Chinese medicine); (coll.) strange; abnormal
- tripod head
- 兴 xìng: 兴 xing4: feeling or desire to do sth; interest in sth; excitement兴 xīng: 兴 xing1: to rise; to flourish; to become popular; to start; to encourage; to get up; (often used in the negative) to permit or allow (dialect); maybe (dialect)兴 Xīng: 兴 Xing1: surname Xing
- tree name (variously Paulownia, Firmiana or Aleurites)
- useless; worthless
- (say) a few words
- see Jiang Ziya 姜子牙[Jiang1 Zi3 ya2]
- Shang Dynasty (c. 1600-1046 BC)
- (of a house or room) distance from the entrance to the rear; depth
- 开国元勋 kāi gúo yuán xūn: 开国元勋 kai1 guo2 yuan2 xun1: founding father; fig. also used of company, school etc开国元勋 kāi gúo yuán xūn: 开国元勋 kai1 guo2 yuan2 xun1: founding figure (of a country or dynasty); founding father; fig. also used of company or school etc
- different; distinct; unequal; variable
- (bound form) refined; elegant; graceful; beautiful; (bound form) superior; excellent; (loanword) show; (literary) to grow; to bloom; (of grain crops) to produce ears
- Eastern or later Han dynasty, 25-220
- see 流芳百世[liu2 fang1 bai3 shi4]