- to break the law
- 过 gùo: 过 guo4: to cross; to go over; to pass (time); to celebrate (a holiday); to live; to get along; excessively; too-过 guo: 过 guo5: (experienced action marker)过 Gūo: 过 Guo1: surname Guo
- 宗 zōng: 宗 zong1: school; sect; purpose; model; ancestor; clan; to take as one's model (in academic or artistic work); classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs宗 Zōng: 宗 Zong1: surname Zong
- 世 shì: 世 shi4: life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime; epoch; descendant; noble世 Shì: 世 Shi4: surname Shi
- 节 jié: 节 jie2: joint; node; (bound form) section; segment; solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar); seasonal festival; (bound form) to economize; to save; (bound form) moral integrity; chastity; classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc; knot (nautical miles per hour)节 jiē: 节 jie1: see 節骨眼|节骨眼[jie1 gu5 yan3]
- first year of an emperor's reign; first year of an era; first year of a significant time period
- 复 fù: 复 fu4: to go and return; to return; to resume; to return to a normal or original state; to repeat; again; to recover; to restore; to turn over; to reply; to answer; to reply to a letter; to retaliate; to carry out复 fù: 复 fu4: to repeat; to double; to overlap; complex (not simple); compound; composite; double; diplo-; duplicate; overlapping; to duplicate复 fù: 复 fu4: to reply to a letter
- kind; type; class; category; (classifier) kind; type; (bound form) to resemble; to be similar to
- previous life; former incarnation
- the sun and moon; day and month; every day and every month; season; life and livelihood
- to nibble away at sth; to eat into; to erode
- to damage; to devastate; to vandalize; damage; destruction
- Northeast China; Manchuria; lit. east of Shanhai Pass 山海關|山海关[Shan1 hai3 guan1]; Kantō region of Japan
- same day; simultaneous
- to collapse; to crumble; to fall apart
- 水 Shǔi: 水 Shui3: surname Shui; Shui ethnic group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
- 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
- river (CL:條|条[tiao2],道[dao4]); (bound form) the Yellow River; (bound form) the Milky Way; (bound form) (on restaurant menus) rice noodles 河粉[he2 fen3]
- to decide; to determine; to execute (sb); (of a dam etc) to breach or burst; definitely; certainly
- sour date (Ziziphus jujuba var. spinosa)
- gale; CL:場|场[chang2]
- bad; spoiled; broken; to break down; (suffix) to the utmost
- hail
- (literary) one's students
- (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...; -er; -ist; (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously); (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term); (old) (used at the end of a command); (old) this
- thick; deep or profound; kind; generous; rich or strong in flavor; to favor; to stress
- dog; CL:隻|只[zhi1],條|条[tiao2]
- Daxue or Great Snow, 21st of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 7th-21st December
- locust
- 间 jiàn: 间 jian4: gap; to separate; to thin out (seedlings); to sow discontent间 jiān: 间 jian1: between; among; within a definite time or space; room; section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars; classifier for rooms
- yin and yang
- 调 tiáo: 调 tiao2: to harmonize; to reconcile; to blend; to suit well; to adjust; to regulate; to season (food); to provoke; to incite调 diào: 调 diao4: to transfer; to move (troops or cadres); to investigate; to enquire into; accent; view; argument; key (in music); mode (music); tune; tone; melody
- to meet by chance (usually with misfortune); classifier for events: time, turn, incident
- drought
- locust
- to relegate a high official to a minor post in an outlying region (punishment in imperial China); to banish or exile; (of immortals) to banish from Heaven; to censure; to blame
- heaven and earth; world; scope; field of activity
- disaster; calamity
- all the people
- imperial censor (formal title of a dynastic official)
- to comment on; to discuss; to suggest