- 殷 yǐn: 殷 yin3: roll of thunder殷 Yīn: 殷 Yin1: surname Yin; dynasty name at the end the Shang dynasty, after its move to Yinxu 殷墟[Yin1 xu1] in present-day Henan殷 yān: 殷 yan1: dark red殷 yīn: 殷 yin1: flourishing; abundant; earnest; hospitable
- profit and loss; increase and decrease
- to add; to increase
- limitations; (medicine) localized
- from now on; in the future; time to come
- generation; period of 30 years; one's whole lifetime; lifelong; age; era; times; the whole world; the First (of numbered European kings)
- thirty; 30
- condition; state; situation
- 答 dá: 答 da2: to answer; to reply; to respond答 dā: 答 da1: bound form having the same meaning as the free word 答[da2], used in 答應|答应[da1 ying5], 答理[da1 li5] etc
- to guess
- around; from beginning to end; all around; front and rear
- Shang Dynasty (c. 1600-1046 BC)
- Xia Dynasty (2070-1600 BC)
- to lower; to decrease; to reduce; to subtract; to diminish
- surname Qin; Qin dynasty (221–207 BC) of the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2]; short name for 陝西|陕西[Shan3 xi1]
- 汉 hàn: 汉 han4: man汉 Hàn: 汉 Han4: Han ethnic group; Chinese (language); the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
- Three Kingdoms period (220–280) in Chinese history; any of several Three Kingdoms periods in Korean history, esp. from 1st century AD to unification under Silla 新羅|新罗[Xin1 luo2] in 658
- Northern and Southern dynasties (420-589)
- Sui (581-617) and Tang dynasties (618-907)
- to alternate; to change
- certain; confident (of some outcome); calm and unhurried
- ancient Babylon
- to break; to snap; to cut off; to give up or abstain from sth; to judge; (usu. used in the negative) absolutely; definitely; decidedly
- spirit; boldness; positive outlook; imposing attitude
- to express; to exhibit
- the present time; (old) (in reference to the reigning monarch) His Majesty
- (verb complement) unable to firmly or securely (grasp, recall etc); repeatedly; continuously; constantly
- sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom); fig. complete confusion; everything turned on its head
- structure; composition; makeup; architecture; CL:座[zuo4],個|个[ge4]
- turning point; breaking point; inflexion point (math., a point of a curve at which the curvature changes sign)
- mystery known only to heaven (archaic); inscrutable twist of fate; fig. top secret
- to break out; to erupt; to explode; to burst out
- to implant
- calculus (branch of mathematics)
- earth's gravity
- (coll.) a star; the stars in the sky
- 转 zhuǎn: 转 zhuan3: to turn; to change direction; to transfer; to forward (mail); (Internet) to share (sb else's content)转 zhuàn: 转 zhuan4: to revolve; to turn; to circle about; to walk about; classifier for revolutions (per minute etc): revs, rpm; classifier for repeated actions转 zhuǎi: 转 zhuai3: see 轉文|转文[zhuai3 wen2]
- to dream; to have a dream; (fig.) to indulge in wishful thinking
- unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that
- Industrial Revolution, c. 1750-1830
- to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning); revolution; revolutionary; to revolt (against sb or sth); to revolutionize (sth); (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern 革noun的命); CL:次[ci4]
- to pursue sth back to its origins; to trace back to the source; to get to the bottom of sth
- to go round a curve; to turn a corner; fig. a new direction