- to appoint; to assign
- state; country; the Gods of earth and grain
- laws and discipline of imperial court
- Wei Zhongxian (1568-1627), infamous eunuch politician of late Ming
- artist; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- handicraft; arts and crafts
- to weave; to knit; to plait; to braid; (fig.) to create (sth abstract, e.g. a dream, a lie etc)
- system; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to tear open; to tear down; to tear apart; to open
- (idiom) everything broken and in disorder
- to reorganize; to recombine; to restructure
- to mess up; to mismanage; to bungle; to confuse; to muddle
- to be on guard; wariness; to guard against; preventive
- to learn to read; able to read; literate
- a staff; a rod; cane; walking stick; to flog with a stick (old)
- 毙 bì: 毙 bi4: to die; to shoot dead; to reject; to fall forward; (suffix) to death毙 bì: 毙 bi4: to collapse
- to correct; to make right
- to misunderstand; misunderstanding
- set square (tool to measure right angles)
- Li Zicheng (1605-1645), leader of peasant rebellion at the end of the Ming Dynasty
- layer upon layer; tiered
- 贝 Bèi: 贝 Bei4: surname Bei贝 bèi: 贝 bei4: cowrie; shellfish; currency (archaic)
- Chongzhen, reign name of last Ming emperor (1628-1644)
- death by hanging; to hang oneself
- Longevity Hill in the Summer Palace 頤和園|颐和园[Yi2 he2 yuan2], Beijing
- to serve the king diligently; to save the country in times of danger; to send troops to rescue the king
- child
- extremely difficult; even more difficult
- Great Ancestor (posthumous title, e.g. for the founder of a dynasty)
- to teach; to impart; a disciple; descendant
- quagmire
- to divine using the eight trigrams
- to speak; to say
- Kinoshita (Japanese surname)
- eye; (literary) to look; to regard; eye (of a net); mesh; mesh size; grit size (abbr. for 目數|目数[mu4 shu4]); item; section; list; catalogue; (taxonomy) order; name; title
- fifth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; fifth in order; letter "E" or Roman "V" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; penta