- to bow to; to pay one's respects; (bound form) to extend greetings (on a specific occasion); to make a courtesy call; (bound form) (of a monarch) to appoint sb to (a position) by performing a ceremony; to acknowledge sb as one's (master, godfather etc); (used before some verbs to indicate politeness)
- 相 xiàng: 相 xiang4: appearance; portrait; picture; government minister; (physics) phase; (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features); to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc)相 Xiāng: 相 Xiang1: surname Xiang相 xiāng: 相 xiang1: each other; one another; mutually; fret on the neck of a pipa 琵琶[pi2 pa5] (a fret on the soundboard is called a 品[pin3])
- scene; view; sight; landscape; to be well-regarded; to be well-off; grand (dialect); impressive (dialect)
- 辽 Liáo: 辽 Liao2: short name for Liaoning 遼寧|辽宁[Liao2 ning2] province; Liao or Khitan dynasty (916-1125)辽 liáo: 辽 liao2: (bound form) distant; faraway
- nervous; keyed up; intense; tense; strained; in short supply; scarce; CL:陣|阵[zhen4]
- foreign policy
- son's daughter; granddaughter
- clear; obvious; unequivocal; sensible; reasonable; to understand; to realize
- original; former; originally; formerly; at first; so, actually, as it turns out
- sheet; thin film
- (after a noun N and before a predicate P) the reason why N P; Example: 我之所以討厭他|我之所以讨厌他[wo3 zhi1 suo3 yi3 tao3 yan4 ta1] "the reason why I dislike him (is ...)"
- 氏 zhī: 氏 zhi1: used in 月氏[Yue4 zhi1]; used in 閼氏|阏氏[yan1 zhi1]氏 shì: 氏 shi4: (bound form) family name; surname (as in 王氏[Wang2 shi4] "the Wang clan"); (bound form) maiden name; née (as in 李王氏[Li3 Wang2 shi4] "Mrs. Li, née Wang"); (bound form) honorific suffix added to the surname or full name of a notable person, esp. historical or scholarly figures
- once more; once again
- the time; the right time; weather conditions; destiny; course of time; heaven's natural order
- favorable location; in the right place; productivity of land
- universe; cosmos; space
- sun; sunlight; sunshine; temple (on the side of the human head) (abbr. for 太陽穴|太阳穴[tai4 yang2 xue2])
- to raise; to hoist; to rise
- authentic tradition; handed-down teachings or techniques
- to worry; to be concerned
- brains; mind; skull; (fig.) gist (of a matter); leader; boss
- the time is right, geographical and social conditions are favorable (idiom); a good time to go to war
- the outside; (attributive) external; exterior; surface
- condition; circumstance; term; factor; requirement; prerequisite; qualification; situation; state; condition; CL:個|个[ge4]
- even if; even though
- superior; superiority
- if; supposing; in case
- to make an effort; to try hard; to strive; hard-working; conscientious
- to accomplish the objective; to succeed
- ear-splitting (idiom); deafening
- achievement; accomplishment; (in more recent usage) performance (of a business, employee etc); results
- to exaggerate
- purpose; aim; goal; target; objective
- simple; not complicated
- confidence; faith (in sb or sth); CL:個|个[ge4]
- lit. not a common chord (idiom); outstanding; brilliant; out of the common run
- to display; to exhibit; to bring out implicit or innate qualities; to express (a thought or moral); to develop (an idea); to elaborate (on a theme)
- subjective
- initiative; active role
- rich; full; substantial; to enrich; to augment; to substantiate (an argument)
- motherland
- to contribute; to dedicate; to devote; contribution; CL:個|个[ge4]