- 许 Xǔ: 许 Xu3: surname Xu许 xǔ: 许 xu3: to allow; to permit; to promise; to praise; somewhat; perhaps
- to serve as an official; an official; the two chess pieces in Chinese chess guarding the "general" or "king" 將|将[jiang4]
- accomplished; elegant
- bass drum
- to argue; to reason with sb; to talk sense; to be reasonable
- data
- law court; hall (in castle); CL:家[jia1]
- big-character poster
- to denounce; to condemn
- (written) resignation
- to catch; to seize; to capture
- scholar preparing for imperial examinations (in former times)
- head (of state); summit (meeting); leader
- (coll.) wife's younger brother
- kin; kindred; relatives
- lit. to go to war (idiom); fig. to make a big fuss over sth
- as the proverb says; as they say...
- rigid; stiff; lacking naturalness or smoothness; awkward; forced
- where there is injustice, there will be an outcry; man will cry out against injustice
- to faint
- convict; prisoner; criminal
- (of a path etc) narrow; (of a living space etc) cramped; (of a way of thinking, a definition etc) narrow; limited
- arrogant; haughty; proud
- (bound form) equal; uniform; even; (literary) without exception; all
- see 襄陽市|襄阳市[Xiang1 yang2 Shi4]
- two legs; both feet
- to convey; to deliver; to transmit
- to differentiate and analyze; to discriminate
- to divine
- lit. to wave around one's bookbag (idiom); fig. to show off one's erudition; a person who does so
- another name for Book of Changes (I Ching) 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]
- five crops, e.g. millet 粟[su4], soybean 豆[dou4], sesame 麻[ma2], barley 麥|麦[mai4], rice 稻[dao4] or other variants; all crops; all grains; oats, peas, beans and barley
- to starve to death; to be very hungry
- to explain; to release; Buddha (abbr. for 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼[Shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2]); Buddhism
- distressed
- clever; wonderful
- one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing earth; female principle; ☷; ancient Chinese compass point: 225° (southwest)
- (bound form) to put in order; to arrange properly; circumspect; well-behaved; to give (sb) an order