- to make insinuations; to take an indirect approach (in making inquiries) (idiom)
- to know what's what
- inadvertent; accidental; to have no intention of (doing sth)
- to take up an official post
- hermit
- far from the center; remote; outlying
- mountain area; CL:個|个[ge4]
- common term for non-Han peoples in former times, not exclusively derogatory; barbarian
- worn-out; dilapidated; tattered; ragged; (coll.) rubbish; junk
- to fall behind; to lag (in technology etc); backward; to retrogress
- to bathe; to take a shower
- Liu Yuxi (772-842), Tang poet
- reign name of Qing emperor (1821-1850)
- to name; to be named; to christen; to seek fame
- 轩 xuān: 轩 xuan1: pavilion with a view; high; tall; high fronted, curtained carriage (old)轩 Xuān: 轩 Xuan1: surname Xuan
- remote; far from civilization
- mountain village
- to become civilized; to be open-minded; (of ice) to thaw
- Imperial scholar from the Ming Dynasty onwards
- garish; gaudy
- to suffer repeatedly
- to persecute
- revolutionary
- optimism
- to visit (a place, e.g. museum or factory); to tour; to look around
- fourteen; 14
- to versify; to compose poetry
- half; semi-; incomplete; (after a number) and a half
- 苔 tái: 苔 tai2: moss; lichen; liverwort苔 tāi: 苔 tai1: used in 舌苔[she2 tai1]
- peach blossom; (fig.) love affair
- to eliminate; to purge
- cauliflower; gonorrhea
- Daoist priest
- (idiom) the place is unchanged, but the faces are different
- to grow all over
- moss; lichen