- modest appellation
- to hold a post; to take office
- disgrace; dishonor; to insult; to bring disgrace or humiliation to; to be indebted to; self-deprecating; Taiwan pr. [ru4]
- in common usage
- to lead an idle life; to be a loafer
- many times; repeatedly
- to experience; to go through; experience (CL:段[duan4],次[ci4])
- 过 guo: 过 guo5: (experienced action marker)过 Gūo: 过 Guo1: surname Guo过 gùo: 过 guo4: to cross; to go over; to pass (time); to celebrate (a holiday); to live; to get along; excessively; too-
- to pray; to say a prayer
- affair; matter; thing; business; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- clear; obvious; unequivocal; sensible; reasonable; to understand; to realize
- clear; distinct; to understand thoroughly; to be clear about
- "Strategies of the Warring States", chronicle of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), possibly written by Su Qin 蘇秦|苏秦[Su1 Qin2]
- 载 zài: 载 zai4: to carry; to convey; to load; to hold; to fill up; and; also; as well as; simultaneously载 zǎi: 载 zai3: to record in writing; to carry (i.e. publish in a newspaper etc); Taiwan pr. [zai4]; year
- 范 fàn: 范 fan4: pattern; model; example范 Fàn: 范 Fan4: surname Fan
- osprey; fish hawk
- 获 hùo: 获 huo4: (literary) to catch; to capture; (literary) to get; to obtain; to win获 hùo: 获 huo4: (bound form) to reap; to harvest
- 力 Lì: 力 Li4: surname Li力 lì: 力 li4: power; force; strength; ability; strenuously
- 奔 bēn: 奔 ben1: to hurry; to rush; to run quickly; to elope奔 bèn: 奔 ben4: to go to; to head for; towards; Taiwan pr. [ben1]
- to have children; to raise or bring up; to educate
- brave
- the dead; the deceased
- inevitably
- surname Cai
- pool; pond; (of metals etc) luster; favor or beneficence; damp; moist
- historical biography
- Shijing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經|五经[Wu3 jing1]
- one of the three main divisions of the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经
- 季 jì: 季 ji4: season; the last month of a season; fourth or youngest amongst brothers; classifier for seasonal crop yields季 Jì: 季 Ji4: surname Ji
- Yan Yuan (521-481 BC), disciple of Confucius 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3], also known as 顏回|颜回[Yan2 Hui2]
- (since) ancient times; (from) time immemorial
- to end; to die
- biographic sketch of an emperor
- see 陝西省|陕西省[Shan3 xi1 Sheng3]
- mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor; Huangling county in Yan'an 延安[Yan2 an1], Shaanxi
- 西北 xī běi: 西北 xi1 bei3: northwest西北 Xī běi: 西北 Xi1 bei3: Northwest China (Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang)
- to destroy; to stop
- 水 shǔi: 水 shui3: water; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 會水|会水[hui4 shui3] and 水性[shui3 xing4]); (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy; (bound form) additional cost; extra income; classifier for washings of a garment水 Shǔi: 水 Shui3: surname Shui; Shui ethnic group
- (bound form) form; appearance; shape; (bound form) state; condition; (bound form) to describe; (bound form) written complaint; lawsuit; (bound form) certificate
- bridge; CL:座[zuo4]
- miscellany of writing from the Western Han (aka Former Han)
- 原 Yuán: 原 Yuan2: surname Yuan; (Japanese surname) Hara原 yuán: 原 yuan2: former; original; primary; raw; level; cause; source
- 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)