- appearance; manner; pattern; model
- 严 Yán: 严 Yan2: surname Yan严 yán: 严 yan2: tight (closely sealed); stern; strict; rigorous; severe; father
- adornment; to adorn; dress; clothing; costume (of an actor in a play); to play a role; to pretend; to install; to fix; to wrap (sth in a bag); to load; to pack
- 行 xíng: 行 xing2: (bound form) to walk; to go; to travel; (literary) trip; journey; visit; (bound form) temporary; makeshift; (bound form) current; in circulation; (bound form) to do; to perform; capable; competent; all right; OK!; will do; behavior; conduct (Taiwan pr. [xing4]); (literary) about to; soon行 héng: 行 heng2: used in 道行[dao4 heng2]行 háng: 行 hang2: (bound form) row; line; (bound form) line of business; trade; profession; (bound form) commercial firm; (bound form) to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age); (in data tables) row; (Tw) column; classifier for rows or lines
- (bound form) idea; thought; meaning; sense; (bound form) intention; feeling; inclination; state of mind; (bound form) Italy (abbr. for 意大利[Yi4 da4 li4])
- to equip; to fit out; to get ready (for a journey); to arrange (clothes) to be ready
- to leave for; to proceed towards; to go to
- 说 shùi: 说 shui4: to persuade说 shūo: 说 shuo1: to speak; to talk; to say; to explain; to comment; to scold; to tell off; (bound form) theory; doctrine
- serene
- contented; pleased with one's position
- senior provincial official in imperial China
- official's salary (in feudal times)
- also
- one's conduct; deed; activity; accomplishment; achievement; to act as; as (in the capacity of); qua; to view as; to look upon (sth as); to take sth to be
- alternative name; to refer to sth by another name; antonomasia
- to offer sacrifices to the gods or ancestors
- 时 Shí: 时 Shi2: surname Shi时 shí: 时 shi2: o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period
- to offer; to present; to dedicate; to donate; to show; to put on display; worthy person (old)
- domestic animal; sacrificial animal
- to pray
- ancestors; forebears; (biology) ancestral species; ancient species from which present-day species evolved
- daytime; during the day; day; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to wear; to put on; to dress; to bore through; to pierce; to perforate; to penetrate; to pass through; to thread
- beautiful
- clothes; CL:件[jian4],套[tao4]
- 与 yǔ: 与 yu3: (formal) and; together with (linking parallel nouns, verbs, or phrases); (formal) with; from (marking the other participant in an interaction, comparison, or contrast, e.g. 與他握手|与他握手[yu3 ta1 wo4 shou3] "shake hands with him", 與去年不同|与去年不同[yu3 qu4 nian2 bu4 tong2] "different from last year"); (literary) to give; to grant; to bestow与 yù: 与 yu4: to take part in
- lit. to come back to one's hometown in silken robes (idiom); fig. to return home after making good; Taiwan pr. [yi4 jin3 huan2 xiang1]
- synonymous
- 语 yǔ: 语 yu3: dialect; language; speech语 yù: 语 yu4: (literary) to tell; to let (sb) know
- 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
- 为 wèi: 为 wei4: because of; for; to为 wéi: 为 wei2: as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice)
- Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3]
- actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive; CL:個|个[ge4]
- words; speech; to say; to talk
- translated text
- person; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- letter; symbol; character; word; CL:個|个[ge4]; courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China
- to resign; to quit
- office; duty
- to live at home; to stay at home; home (schooling etc); in-home (care etc); household (repairs etc); living (environment etc)
- to purchase; to buy
- field; farmland; cropland; plight; extent
- 粗 cū: 粗 cu1: (of sth long) wide; thick; (of sth granular) coarse; (of a voice) gruff; (of sb's manner etc) rough; crude; careless; rude粗 cū: 粗 cu1: remote; distant
- to hide; to cover (one's tracks)
- 了 le: 了 le5: (completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now); (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)了 liǎo: 了 liao3: to finish; (used with 得[de2] or 不[bu4] after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了[wang4 bu5 liao3] "cannot forget"); (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 無|无[wu2] or 不[bu4]) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least了 liǎo: 了 liao3: (of eyes) bright; clear-sighted; to understand clearly
- 好 hǎo: 好 hao3: good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello好 hào: 好 hao4: to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to