- oil lamp
- to talk about; to narrate; to give an account
- Daoist School of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), based on the teachings of Laozi or Lao-tze 老子[Lao3 zi3] (c. 500 BC-) and Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3] (369-286 BC)
- to evade; to flee; to escape
- first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; (used for an unspecified person or thing); first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc); letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; armor plating; shell or carapace; (of the fingers or toes) nail; bladed leather or metal armor (old); ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old); civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old); ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
- 书 Shū: 书 Shu1: abbr. for 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1]书 shū: 书 shu1: book; letter; document; CL:本[ben3],冊|册[ce4],部[bu4]; to write
- supernatural beings
- (bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion; (bound form) situation; condition
- 将 qiāng: 将 qiang1: to desire; to invite; to request将 jiāng: 将 jiang1: will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把[ba3])将 jiàng: 将 jiang4: (bound form) a general; (literary) to command; to lead; (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)
- 布 bù: 布 bu4: to announce; to spread布 bù: 布 bu4: cloth; to declare; to announce; to spread; to make known
- to envelop; to wrap; to enclose
- hair worn in a bun or coil
- 戴 dài: 戴 dai4: to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc); to respect; to bear; to support戴 Dài: 戴 Dai4: surname Dai
- overhead; above
- ancient times
- to wrap up; to pack; to bind up (a wound)
- shoes and socks
- light; ray (CL:道[dao4]); bright; shiny; only; merely; used up; finished; to leave (a part of the body) uncovered
- 着 zhe: 着 zhe5: aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state着 zhúo: 着 zhuo2: to wear (clothes); to contact; to use; to apply着 zhāo: 着 zhao1: a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]); trick; tactic; (dialect) okay; all right; (dialect) to put in; to add着 zháo: 着 zhao2: to touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding in
- barefoot
- 头 tóu: 头 tou2: head; hair style; the top; end; beginning or end; a stub; remnant; chief; boss; side; aspect; first; leading; classifier for pigs or livestock; CL:個|个[ge4]头 tou: 头 tou5: suffix for nouns
- hair rolled up in a bun, topknot
- see 湖南省[Hu2 nan2 Sheng3]
- very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
- capable
- 孙子 sūn zi: 孙子 sun1 zi5: grandson; son's son孙子 Sūn zǐ: 孙子 Sun1 zi3: Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武|孙武[Sun1 Wu3] (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3], one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1]
- dusk; evening; nightfall
- to arrive; to come
- order; command; CL:道[dao4],個|个[ge4]
- to go forward; to advance; to go in; to enter; to put in; to submit; to take in; to admit; (math.) base of a number system; classifier for sections in a building or residential compound
- to live; to reside; to stay; to stop; to cease; (result complement indicating firmness or a stable achieved state)
- now; at present; currently
- (concept of) time; (duration of) time; (point in) time
- 还 Huán: 还 Huan2: surname Huan还 hái: 还 hai2: still; still in progress; still more; yet; even more; in addition; fairly; passably (good); as early as; even; also; else还 huán: 还 huan2: to pay back; to return
- ahead; in front; preceding; above; also pr. [qian2 mian5]
- to think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that); to desire; to want (to); to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)
- 写 xiè: 写 xie4: used in 寫意|写意[xie4 yi4]写 xiě: 写 xie3: to write
- 吧 bā: 吧 ba1: bar (loanword) (serving drinks, or providing Internet access etc); to puff (on a pipe etc); (onom.) bang; abbr. for 貼吧|贴吧[tie1 ba1]吧 ba: 吧 ba5: (modal particle indicating suggestion or surmise); ...right?; ...OK?; ...I presume.吧 biā: 吧 bia1: (onom.) smack!
- anxious; panicky
- sacrifice for avoiding calamity
- to pass on a story; to communicate a message
- to think of; to call to mind; to anticipate
- to ask; to invite; please (do sth); to treat (to a meal etc); to request
- immediately
- a moment; a while; in a moment; now...now...; also pr. [yi1 hui3 r5]
- 没 méi: 没 mei2: (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not没 mò: 没 mo4: drowned; to end; to die; to inundate