- people of ancient times; the ancients; extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis; (literary) deceased person
- to record; to note; to memorize; to remember; mark; sign; classifier for blows, kicks, shots
- date
- to excel the common (idiom); surpassing; preeminent; outstanding
- road; path (CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]); (bound form) way; reason; principle; (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization; (Daoism) the Way; the Dao; to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel); (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words); classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process; (old) circuit (administrative division)
- (bound form) to prepare; to equip; (literary) fully; completely
- extremely
- wise and capable; sagacious
- to analyze; analysis; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 见 xiàn: 见 xian4: to appear; also written 現|现[xian4]见 jiàn: 见 jian4: to see; to meet; to appear (to be sth); to interview; opinion; view
- Zi Lu (542-480 BC), disciple of Confucius 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3], also known as Ji Lu 季路[Ji4 Lu4]
- won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be?
- latitude; woof (horizontal thread in weaving); weft
- 通 tòng: 通 tong4: classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)通 tōng: 通 tong1: to go through; to know well; (suffix) expert; to connect; to communicate; open; to clear; classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc
- divinatory diagram; one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]; one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]
- to examine; to test; to check
- translated text
- everyone; influential family; great expert
- to like; to love; to be fond of; favorite
- surely; certainly; definitely; fixed; settled; a certain ...; a given ...
- 要 yào: 要 yao4: to want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should; if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]); (bound form) important要 yāo: 要 yao1: (bound form) to demand; to coerce
- to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
- to inspect; to observe and study; on-the-spot investigation
- to loathe; to hate; disgusted with sth
- at a loss; unable to do anything about it; to have no choice
- to undertake; to assume (responsibility etc)
- people (in general); people around the world; everyone
- they; them
- to admire; to praise; to eulogize
- to spread; to circulate; to hand down
- 言语 yán yu: 言语 yan2 yu5: to speak; to tell言语 yán yǔ: 言语 yan2 yu3: words; speech; (spoken) language
- to lose
- 它 tā: 它 ta1: it它 tā: 它 ta1: it (pronoun for an animal)
- original; originally; at first; it goes without saying; of course
- sense; meaning; significance; importance; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to draw; to paint; picture; painting (CL:幅[fu2],張|张[zhang1])
- to go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield; to go beyond; to exceed; (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result); classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
- form; shape
- all of one voice; unanimous
- metal; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- unceasing; uninterrupted; continuous; constant
- to slander; to libel
- to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger
- to perish; to ruin; to destroy
- this way; like this; so; (before a noun) this kind of; such
- disaster; calamity
- already