- Confucian scholar (old)
- courtyard
- to clean; to sweep
- (idiom) to interact with people
- the classics; scriptures; classical; classic (example, case etc); typical
- that level or higher; that amount or more; the above-mentioned; (used to indicate that one has completed one's remarks) That is all.
- literature
- character; nature; quality; plain; to pawn; pledge; hostage; to question; Taiwan pr. [zhi2]
- relatively; opposite; to resist; to oppose; relative; vis-a-vis; counterpart
- field; plain; open space; limit; boundary; rude; feral
- 史 Shǐ: 史 Shi3: surname Shi史 shǐ: 史 shi3: history; annals; title of an official historian in ancient China
- inner; internal; intrinsic; innate
- inside information; concrete details
- skills acquired through religious practice; (fig.) ability; skill; Taiwan pr. [dao4 hang5]
- (lit. and fig.) deep
- not care about one's appearance (idiom); slovenly in dress and manner
- Jin Yong, pen name of Louis Cha (1924-2018), wuxia 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2] novelist, author of the 1957-1961 Condor Trilogy
- novel; fiction; CL:本[ben3],部[bu4]
- chivalrous; chivalry; knight-errantry
- to wear; to put on; to dress; to bore through; to pierce; to perforate; to penetrate; to pass through; to thread
- Jigong or Daoji (1130-1207), Southern Song Dynasty Buddhist monk
- shoe; CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]
- broken; damaged; worn out; lousy; rotten; to break, split or cleave; to get rid of; to destroy; to break with; to defeat; to capture (a city etc); to expose the truth of
- to pay particular attention to; carefully selected for quality; tastefully chosen
- insolent; boorish; rough (in actions)
- one side; one aspect; simultaneously... (and...); one's whole face
- the wording and purport of what one writes
- 摇 yáo: 摇 yao2: to shake; to rock; to row; to crank摇 Yáo: 摇 Yao2: surname Yao
- fan; CL:把[ba3]
- (literary) elegant; graceful; refined
- really; actually; indeed; true; real; honest; dependable; (philosophy) reality
- to seem; as if; seemingly; alike; similar
- proposition (logic, math.); to assign an essay topic
- to practice; to train; to drill; to perfect (one's skill); exercise; (literary) white silk; to boil and scour raw silk
- almost; nearly; more or less; about the same; good enough; not bad
- not just; not limited to; (as a correlative conjunction) not only (..., but also ...)
- the Confucian Six Arts, namely: rites or etiquette 禮|礼[li3] (禮儀|礼仪[li3 yi2]), music 樂|乐[yue3] (音樂|音乐[yin1 yue4]), archery 射[she4] (射箭[she4 jian4]), charioteering 御[yu4] (駕車|驾车[jia4 che1]), calligraphy or literacy 書|书[shu1] (識字|识字[shi2 zi4]), mathematics or reckoning 數|数[shu4] (計算|计算[ji4 suan4]); another name for the Six Classics 六經|六经[Liu4 jing1]
- 御 yù: 御 yu4: (bound form) imperial; royal; (literary) to drive (a carriage); (literary) to manage; to govern御 yù: 御 yu4: (bound form) to defend; to resist