- arch-enemy; sworn enemy
- 霍 Hùo: 霍 Huo4: surname Huo霍 hùo: 霍 huo4: (literary) suddenly
- games (such as chess, dice etc); gambling; contest
- political history
- task; problem; issue
- easy; with no difficulty
- inevitably
- to substitute for; to replace; to supersede
- lit. one arrow, two golden eagles (idiom); to kill two birds with one stone
- tolerance
- doctrine (esp. religious); argumentation (in a speech or essay)
- lit. to take knives in both sides (idiom); fig. to go to any lengths for a friend; to sacrifice oneself out of loyalty
- to tend towards
- scientific research
- 清水 qīng shǔi: 清水 qing1 shui3: fresh water; drinking water; clear water清水 Qīng shǔi: 清水 Qing1 shui3: see 清水縣|清水县[Qing1 shui3 Xian4]; Shimizu (Japanese surname and place name)
- friendship between gentlemen, insipid as water (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3])
- erudition; scholarly knowledge
- deference; esteem; to admire
- to see someone off; to throw someone a send-off party
- (idiom) very few
- to guard; to protect
- to understand tacitly (idiom); to know intuitively; to understand thoroughly
- both publicly and privately; both overtly and secretly; both explicitly and implicitly
- to state; to assert
- pulse; throbbing; pulsation
- it is rumored that
- calligraphy; handwriting; penmanship
- to be strict with oneself
- to be lenient with others (idiom)
- to be widely known as
- proud; arrogant; to despise; unyielding; to defy
- enemy; foe; (in opera) sweetheart or destined love