- to lose; to forfeit
- to offer for sale; to sell; to sell out; to betray
- personal; oneself
- to obtain (a result); to arrive at (a conclusion)
- to turn round; to turn one's head; later; by and by
- to imagine; to envision; imagination
- firm; secure
- just as; precisely as
- to carry; to take away
- Su Dongpo, another name for Su Shi 蘇軾|苏轼 (1037-1101), northern Song writer and calligrapher
- see 八風穴|八风穴[ba1 feng1 xue2]
- to ridicule
- rumors and slanders (idiom); gossip; lies and slanders
- to praise
- wind; news; style; custom; manner; CL:陣|阵[zhen4],絲|丝[si1]
- to brush; to caress (of breeze); to praise
- to hold fast to; to stick to
- to know by heart (so well that you can recite it backwards)
- to meet
- to meet with; to encounter (esp. misfortune or hardship); an experience (esp. adverse)
- to come across; to run into; to meet; to hit
- to fawn on; to flatter; to ingratiate oneself; flattery
- to bear; to support; to inherit
- at once; right away; immediately; on horseback (i.e. by military force)
- 轴 zhóu: 轴 zhou2: axis; axle; spool (for thread); roller (for scrolls); classifier for calligraphy rolls etc轴 zhòu: 轴 zhou4: see 壓軸戲|压轴戏[ya1 zhou4 xi4]; Taiwan pr. [zhou2]
- (idiom) pigheaded
- portion; part of; subset
- whether or not; can it or can't it; is it possible?
- to blend into; to integrate; to assimilate; to merge
- Zen saying repeated as cant; (fig.) catchphrase; mantra; favorite expression; stock phrase
- mouth; beak; nozzle; spout (of teapot etc); CL:張|张[zhang1],個|个[ge4]
- to talk about often; to reminisce about; to keep repeating; to keep harping on; to discuss
- cultivated individual; scholar; literati
- to vote by ballot
- to arrange in order; to line up; to exclude; to eliminate; to repel; to expel; to discharge; (literary) to push aside; to force open; to rehearse; row; line; platoon; (bound form) steak; chop; (bound form) raft; classifier for rows or lines (of people or things)
- Tao Yuanming (c. 365-427), Jin dynasty writer and poet
- bard; poet
- to spread; to circulate; to hand down
- wide; broad; extensive; widespread
- poem; poetic works
- poetry and literature
- creator; author
- (of a story etc) to unfold; to play out; to develop (a technique etc); to enact; (logic) to deduce; to infer
- evidence; proof; to confirm; corroboration
- to unite