- BCE (before the Common Era); BC (before Christ)
- old-fashioned; out of date; obsolete; antiquated
- badly damaged; shattered
- catalog; table of contents; directory (on computer hard drive); list; contents
- to edit; to compile; editor; compiler
- to uphold virtue and condemn evil (idiom)
- inside; interior; also pr. [li3 mian5]
- which ones?; who?; what?
- good (virtuous); benevolent; well-disposed; good at sth; to improve or perfect
- to appraise; to pass judgment on; to speak ill of; praise and censure; appraisal
- 藏 cáng: 藏 cang2: to conceal; to hide away; to harbor; to store; to collect藏 zàng: 藏 zang4: storehouse; depository; Buddhist or Taoist scripture藏 Zàng: 藏 Zang4: Tibetan ethnic group; Tibet Autonomous Region (short name for 西藏自治區|西藏自治区[Xi1 zang4 Zi4 zhi4 qu1])
- character; script; writing; written language; writing style; phraseology; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to be secretive; to try to cover up (idiom)
- lit. to point at the mulberry tree and curse the locust tree; fig. to scold sb indirectly; to make oblique accusations (idiom)
- to threaten the east and strike to the west (idiom); to create a diversion
- to lift; to hold up; to cite; to enumerate; to act; to raise; to choose; to elect; act; move; deed
- case; (for) instance; example; CL:個|个[ge4]
- technique of writing, calligraphy or drawing
- 夏 xià: 夏 xia4: summer夏 Xià: 夏 Xia4: the Xia or Hsia dynasty c. 2000 BC; Xia of the Sixteen Kingdoms (407–432); surname Xia
- May; fifth month (of the lunar year)
- 鄢 Yān: 鄢 Yan1: surname Yan鄢 yān: 鄢 yan1: used in 鄢陵[Yan1 ling2] (the name of a place in Henan)
- to understand; to realize; to find out
- title; heading; headline; caption; subject
- to watch helplessly
- 郑 zhèng: 郑 zheng4: used in 鄭重|郑重[zheng4 zhong4]郑 Zhèng: 郑 Zheng4: Zheng, a Zhou-dynasty state in the vicinity of present-day Xinzheng 新鄭|新郑[Xin1 zheng4], a county-level city in Henan; abbr. for Zhengzhou 鄭州|郑州[Zheng4 zhou1], the capital of Henan; surname Zheng
- monarch
- 姬 jī: 姬 ji1: woman; concubine; female entertainer (archaic)姬 Jī: 姬 Ji1: surname Ji; family name of the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty 周代[Zhou1 dai4] (1046–256 BC)
- to awake from sleep
- see 鄢陵縣|鄢陵县[Yan1 ling2 Xian4]
- to get rid of
- (affectionate form of address for a male who is not very much younger than oneself) my boy; old pal
- complicated; complex
- 据 jū: 据 ju1: used in 拮据[jie2 ju1]据 jù: 据 ju4: according to; to act in accordance with; to depend on; to seize; to occupy
- faithful