- to bawl; to wail; to cry
- 看 kàn: 看 kan4: to see; to look at; to read; to watch; to visit; to call on; to consider; to regard as; to look after; to treat (a patient or illness); to depend on; to feel (that); (after a verb) to give it a try; to watch out for看 kān: 看 kan1: to look after; to take care of; to watch; to guard
- grass; straw; manuscript; draft (of a document); careless; rough; CL:棵[ke1],撮[zuo3],株[zhu1],根[gen1]
- five crops, e.g. millet 粟[su4], soybean 豆[dou4], sesame 麻[ma2], barley 麥|麦[mai4], rice 稻[dao4] or other variants; all crops; all grains; oats, peas, beans and barley
- collect and record
- to abridge; to cut a text down to size for publication
- military campaign
- many; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd; how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]); (bound form) multi-; poly-
- Fen River
- city wall
- height; altitude; elevation; high degree; highly; CL:個|个[ge4]
- army-civilian; military-masses; military-civilian
- to lack food supplies
- each other; mutually; mutual
- very late at night
- conversely; in reverse order; in an opposite direction
- to partition; to divide up
- to appoint
- to be responsible for; to be in charge of; to bear responsibility for; conscientious
- god; spirit; demon; occult or supernatural entities in general
- to expand; to extend; to broaden (client base, outlook, territory etc); (computing) to scale up; to increase system capacity
- to listen to information; to get the news; to believe what one hears
- words; expression; what one says
- lit. military tactics on paper (idiom); fig. theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice; armchair strategist; idle theorizing; cf Zhao Kuo 趙括|赵括[Zhao4 Kuo4] leading an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰|长平之战[Chang2 ping2 zhi1 Zhan4] in 260 BC
- just as; precisely as
- to sing; to call loudly; to chant
- that kind; that sort
- to laugh happily; a belly-laugh
- to finish; to be over; whole; complete; entire
- (bound form) respectful; to respect; to offer politely
- 仲 Zhòng: 仲 Zhong4: surname Zhong仲 zhòng: 仲 zhong4: second month of a season; middle; intermediate; second amongst brothers
- 厉 Lì: 厉 Li4: surname Li厉 lì: 厉 li4: strict; severe
- (bound form) at first; initially; (bound form) first; early; (bound form) (in lunar calendar dates, before numerals 1–10) days 1 to 10 of a month, as in 初三[chu1 san1] "the third"
- to cry (of birds, animals and insects); to make a sound; to voice (one's gratitude, grievance etc)
- surname Gui; name of a river
- to have children; to raise or bring up; to educate
- 姜 Jiāng: 姜 Jiang1: surname Jiang姜 jiāng: 姜 jiang1: ginger
- divine by stalk