- chief; head; outstanding; exceptional; stalwart
- grand; majestic; magnificent
- compilation; selected works
- heavenly emperor; "the Great" (title)
- (history) to have an audience with the Emperor
- (literary) to offer food and drinks; to entertain
- 李 Lǐ: 李 Li3: surname Li李 lǐ: 李 li3: plum
- good (virtuous); benevolent; well-disposed; good at sth; to improve or perfect
- to draw (e.g. a bow); to pull; to stretch sth; to extend; to lengthen; to involve or implicate in; to attract; to lead; to guide; to leave; to provide evidence or justification for; old unit of distance equal to 10 丈[zhang4], one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters
- 虞 Yú: 虞 Yu2: surname Yu虞 yú: 虞 yu2: (literary) to expect; to anticipate; (literary) to be concerned about; to be apprehensive; (literary) to deceive; to dupe
- 林 Lín: 林 Lin2: surname Lin; Japanese surname Hayashi林 lín: 林 lin2: (bound form) woods; forest; (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people); (bound form) a collection (of similar things)
- dream (CL:場|场[chang2]); (bound form) to dream
- God of heaven; Celestial emperor
- 30 catties; great; your (honorific)
- central; middle; center; central authorities (of a state)
- lit. “Mr. Lü's Spring and Autumn (Annals)”, compendium of the philosophies of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家|诸子百家[zhu1 zi3 bai3 jia1], compiled around 239 BC under the patronage of Qin Dynasty 秦代[Qin2 dai4] Chancellor Lü Buwei 呂不韋|吕不韦[Lu:3 Bu4 wei2]
- to look at; to view; to read
- music; CL:張|张[zhang1],曲[qu3],段[duan4]
- to perform on a musical instrument
- dance (performance art); dancing
- dancer
- hand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work; person skilled in certain types of work; personal(ly); convenient; classifier for skill; CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]
- to hold; to seize; to catch; to apprehend; to take; (used in the same way as 把[ba3]: to mark the following noun as a direct object)
- weapons of war; arms
- weaponry; weapons; arms
- feather; 5th note in pentatonic scale
- musical instrument; CL:件[jian4]
- formal ceremonial music of each succeeding Chinese dynasty starting with the Zhou; Korean a'ak; Japanese gagaku
- to drag; to pull; to raise a child (through difficulties); to help; to support; to drag in; to chat
- to throw oneself at; to pounce on; to devote one's energies; to flap; to flutter; to dab; to pat; to bend over
- brown bear
- metaphor
- sometime; someday (in the future)
- abbr. for 中國銀行|中国银行[Zhong1 guo2 Yin2 hang2]
- square; square-shaped
- utensil made of bamboo
- might (happen); possible; probable; possibility; probability; maybe; perhaps; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to be used for
- copy; duplicate; transcript; (gaming) dungeon; instance; private team mission
- child; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute; generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon