- reason; sense
- to look back; to review
- the real meaning; the true essence
- fortune-telling; to tell fortune
- 乾 qián: 乾 qian2: one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing heaven; male principle; ☰; ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)乾 Qián: 乾 Qian2: surname Qian乾 Gān: 乾 Gan1: surname Gan乾 gān: 乾 gan1: dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder
- to jump; to leap
- deep pool; deep; profound
- divinatory diagram; one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]; one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]
- extreme sorrow turns to joy (idiom)
- to be at an impasse (idiom); in a tight spot; at the end of one's rope; desperate
- to divine using the eight trigrams
- deposits accumulated over long periods; fig. valuable experience, accumulated wisdom
- to predict; prophecy
- sorrowful; dismal
- to meet by chance (usually with misfortune); classifier for events: time, turn, incident
- 口音 kǒu yin: 口音 kou3 yin5: voice; accent口音 kǒu yīn: 口音 kou3 yin1: (linguistics) oral speech sounds
- host; master of ceremonies; (TV or radio) presenter; anchor; (Tw) (research project) principal investigator (PI); program director
- (in the) class
- Putonghua; standard Mandarin
- to roar with laughter; hoots of laughter; guffaw
- see 陝西省|陕西省[Shan3 xi1 Sheng3]
- fellow townsman; fellow villager; sb from the same hometown
- so dedicated as to forget one's meals (idiom)
- lit. Lord Ye's passion for dragons (idiom); fig. to pretend to be fond of sth while actually fearing it; ostensible fondness of sth one really fears
- county; (Japan) prefecture
- county's head commissioner
- Ye County or Yexian, a county in Pingdingshan City 平頂山市|平顶山市[Ping2 ding3 shan1 Shi4], Henan
- senior official; senior officer; commanding officer; CL:位[wei4]; sir (term of address for senior officer)
- to annex
- 沈 Shěn: 沈 Shen3: surname Shen沈 Shěn: 沈 Shen3: short name for 瀋陽|沈阳[Shen3 yang2]沈 shěn: 沈 shen3: (literary) juice
- 梁 Liáng: 梁 Liang2: Liang Dynasty (502–557); Later Liang Dynasty (907–923); surname Liang梁 liáng: 梁 liang2: roof beam; beam (structure); bridge
- brain; mind; head; essence
- dazzling; to show off; to flaunt