- procedure; step
- step one; first step
- census register; household register
- location; site
- provincial capital
- court examination, the top grade imperial exam
- to be interviewed (as a candidate); interview
- preferential treatment; most favored terms
- inferior
- 2nd rank of candidates who passed the imperial examination (i.e. 4th place and up)
- 3rd rank of candidates who passed the imperial examination; (hospital ranking) A-grade tertiary (the highest level) (abbr. for 三級甲等|三级甲等[san1 ji2 jia3 deng3])
- top scorer in the palace examination (highest rank of the Imperial examination system); see 榜眼[bang3 yan3] and 探花[tan4 hua1]; top scorer in college entrance examination 高考[gao1 kao3]; (fig.) the most brilliantly talented person in the field; leading light
- candidate who came second in the Han-lin examination; see 狀元|状元[zhuang4 yuan2]
- candidate who came third in the Hanlin examination (cf. 狀元|状元[zhuang4 yuan2]); (slang) to secretly film sex with a prostitute to share on the Internet
- to divide into rows; to identify subcategories; to break down into constituent parts; breakdown; disaggregation
- dynasty; reign (of a king)
- Tang dynasty (618–907)
- Song dynasty (960-1279)
- to fill a job vacancy; to fill in a blank (e.g. on a form, questionnaire or exam paper)
- in general; more or less; in rough terms; basically; on the whole; overall situation; the big picture; cadaver for dissection in training medical students
- to do sth by force; Taiwan pr. [qiang3 xing2]
- unexpectedly; to one's surprise; in spite of everything; in that crazy way; actually; to go as far as to
- Four Books, namely: the Great Learning 大學|大学, the Doctrine of the Mean 中庸, the Analects of Confucius 論語|论语, and Mencius 孟子
- 大学 dà xué: 大学 da4 xue2: university; college; CL:所[suo3]大学 Dà xué: 大学 Da4 xue2: the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1] in Confucianism
- 中庸 Zhōng yōng: 中庸 Zhong1 yong1: the Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1]中庸 zhōng yōng: 中庸 zhong1 yong1: golden mean (Confucianism); (literary) (of person) mediocre; ordinary
- Mencius (c. 372-c. 289 BC), Confucian philosopher second only to Confucius; book of the same name, one of the classics of Confucianism
- reference book
- Zhu Xi or Chu Hsi (1130-1200), also known as Master Zhu 朱子[Zhu1 zi3], Song dynasty Confucian writer and propagandist, founder of neo-Confucianism
- to focus; to concentrate on
- treasured object; treasure; darling; baby; cowry; good-for-nothing or queer character
- great scholar respected for learning and integrity
- intellectual history
- 分量 fèn liàng: 分量 fen4 liang4: (food) portion size分量 fèn liang: 分量 fen4 liang5: quantity; weight; measure; (fig.) weight (importance, prestige, authority etc); (of written material) density分量 fēn liàng: 分量 fen1 liang4: (vector) component
- to finalize (a design etc); stereotype; permanent wave or perm (hairdressing)
- one's conduct; deed; activity; accomplishment; achievement; to act as; as (in the capacity of); qua; to view as; to look upon (sth as); to take sth to be
- only; sole
- the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
- hardly; not in the least; not at all
- to radiate all around
- rays of light; brilliant rays; radiance