- to play a joke; to make fun of; to joke
- (idiom) very few
- well-known figure; excellent (person, company etc)
- to look upon; to regard
- lit. not to know the true face of Lushan Mountain (idiom); fig. can't see the forest for the trees
- not able to see clearly
- to suspend; time-out (e.g. in sports); stoppage; pause (media player)
- first; first time; for the first time
- (idiom) to achieve twice the result with half the effort
- to annotate; to add a comment; explanatory note; annotation
- Shijing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經|五经[Wu3 jing1]
- Classic of Rites
- to rank second (in terms of some attribute: size, frequency, quality etc)
- literal; typeface
- advanced guard; vanguard; avant-garde; forward (soccer position)
- constant; unvarying; (math.) invariant
- pros and cons; advantages and disadvantages; gains and losses
- equal-value exchange
- to sauté; to stir-fry; to speculate (in real estate etc); to scalp; to hype up; to sack; to fire (sb)
- squid
- life-and-death power; ultimate power
- to get the desired outcome; to win favor by fawning on sb; to curry favor with; a fruitful outcome to reward one's labor
- bitch; slut
- to be studying (at a school or research institute)
- Guozijian, the highest educational administrative body in imperial China, in some dynasties also functioning as the highest institution of academic research and learning (Imperial College, aka Imperial Academy)
- to set up; to arrange; to lay out
- spirit tablet; ancestral tablet
- to delete
- clamor raises the dust (idiom); a tremendous clamor; to raise a tremendous stink
- vestige; mark; trace
- see 慈溪市[Ci2 xi1 Shi4]
- personage; celebrity
- numerous and disorderly
- 隐 yǐn: 隐 yin3: (bound form) secret; hidden; concealed; crypto-隐 yìn: 隐 yin4: to lean upon
- generous gifts
- to tactfully decline; to turn down gracefully
- to wait and see; to watch from the sidelines; to look around; to survey
- professor; to instruct; to lecture on; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- to bless; to praise