- to ask; to inquire
- elder; term of respect for a Buddhist monk
- worthy or virtuous person; honorific used for a person of the same or a younger generation
- 文 Wén: 文 Wen2: surname Wen文 wén: 文 wen2: language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67
- to conceal; dark
- 难 nán: 难 nan2: difficult (to...); problem; difficulty; difficult; not good难 nàn: 难 nan4: disaster; distress; to scold
- (literary) to kill; to behead; to sever; to separate; to surpass; (bound form) different; (bound form) special; remarkable; (literary) very; extremely
- chip (in gambling); token (for counting); ticket; to prepare; to plan; to raise (funds); resource; way; means
- 春秋 Chūn qīu: 春秋 Chun1 qiu1: Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC); Spring and Autumn Annals, chronicle of Lu State (722-481 BC)春秋 chūn qīu: 春秋 chun1 qiu1: spring and autumn; four seasons; year; a person's age; annals (used in book titles)
- to think; to believe (often with the implication that the belief is mistaken – unless referring to one's own current belief)
- rumor
- not equal to; not as good as; inferior to; it would be better to
- 斯 Sī: 斯 Si1: Slovakia; Slovak; abbr. for 斯洛伐克[Si1 luo4 fa2 ke4]斯 sī: 斯 si1: (phonetic); this
- 传 chuán: 传 chuan2: to pass on; to spread; to transmit; to infect; to transfer; to circulate; to conduct (electricity)传 zhuàn: 传 zhuan4: biography; historical narrative; commentaries; relay station
- 圣 kū: 圣 ku1: (literary) to dig with persistent effort (e.g. to gather wild vegetables)圣 shèng: 圣 sheng4: (bound form) peerless (in wisdom, moral virtue, skill etc); (bound form) peerless individual; paragon (sage, saint, emperor, master of a skill etc); (bound form) holy; sacred
- (literary) wise; wisdom
- to fall down; to decay; to fall from the sky; to die
- to collapse; to fall into ruins; death of king or emperor; demise
- death of a prince; swarming
- 百 bǎi: 百 bai3: hundred; numerous; all kinds of百 Bǎi: 百 Bai3: surname Bai
- 诗 Shī: 诗 Shi1: abbr. for Shijing 詩經|诗经[Shi1 jing1], the Book of Songs诗 shī: 诗 shi1: poem; CL:首[shou3]; poetry; verse
- The Analects of Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3]
- to bury (the dead); to inter
- how? (emphatic question)
- odd; strange; uncanny; (bound form) monster; supernatural being; to find strange; to regard as odd; to blame; (coll.) somewhat; rather
- a thorny tree; sugarcane; Cudrania triloba; three-bristle cudrania (Cudrania tricuspidata); Chinese mulberry (Cudrania)
- 桑 Sāng: 桑 Sang1: surname Sang桑 sāng: 桑 sang1: (bound form) mulberry tree
- branch; twig; stem
- free; unimpeded; smooth; at ease; free from worry; fluent
- luxuriant; (chemistry) cyclopentadiene
- to scale (a height); to ascend; to mount; to publish or record; to enter (e.g. in a register); to press down with the foot; to step or tread on; to put on (shoes or trousers) (dialect); to be gathered and taken to the threshing ground (old)
- to droop; to sag; to hang down; sagging; drooping; prolapse (medicine)
- 适 kùo: 适 kuo4: see 李适[Li3 Kuo4]适 shì: 适 shi4: to fit; suitable; proper; just (now); comfortable; well; to go; to follow or pursue适 Shì: 适 Shi4: surname Shi
- to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate; to set aside (money); to poke (the fire); to pluck (a string instrument); to turn round; classifier: group, batch
- to take; to get; to choose; to fetch
- ear; handle (archaeology); and that is all (Classical Chinese)
- with an undeserved reputation (idiom); unwarranted fame; nowhere near as good as he's made out to be
- 下面 xià miàn: 下面 xia4 mian4: below; under; next; the following; also pr. [xia4 mian5]下面 xià miàn: 下面 xia4 mian4: to boil noodles
- (bound form) equal; uniform; even; (literary) without exception; all
- humble words; self-deprecatory expression; to modestly decline
- talent; talented person; looks; attractive looks
- to lack; to be short of
- to do with difficulty; to force sb to do sth; reluctant; barely enough
- to undertake; to assume (responsibility etc)
- 劭 Shào: 劭 Shao4: surname Shao劭 shào: 劭 shao4: stimulate to effort
- governor of a province