- (bound form) posthumous name or title; (literary) to confer a posthumous name or title
- to be good at; to be adept at
- to pay particular attention to; carefully selected for quality; tastefully chosen
- lord; nobility; nobleman; noblewoman; aristocrat; aristocracy
- etiquette
- to divine
- (bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself
- device; tool; utensil; CL:臺|台[tai2]
- 令 líng: 令 ling2: used in 脊令[ji2 ling2]; used in 令狐[Ling2 hu2] (Taiwan pr. [ling4])令 lǐng: 令 ling3: classifier for a ream of paper令 lìng: 令 ling4: to order; to command; an order; warrant; writ; to cause; to make sth happen; virtuous; honorific title; season; government position (old); type of short song or poem
- to guess; to conjecture; to surmise
- to graze (livestock); to herd (livestock)
- to puzzle; to confuse; to baffle
- confusion
- to write down; to record; written account
- person; figure; public figure
- to discuss; to talk about
- court; imperial household; dynasty
- to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb); hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2 lai5]); ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]); for the past (amount of time); (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2 shi4]); (between two verbs) in order to; (after a round number) approximately; (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])
- oneself; (attributive) one's own
- I; me; my
- to lose
- father; also pr. [fu4 qin5]; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to foster; to bring up; to raise
- to grow up
- to learn; to study
- to write
- to read aloud
- Shijing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經|五经[Wu3 jing1]
- very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
- expression of opinion; views; remarks; arguments
- now; at present; currently
- eye; CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1]
- to resemble; to be like; to look as if; such as; appearance; image; portrait; image under a mapping (math.)
- to hang or suspend; to worry; public announcement; unresolved; baseless; without foundation
- 着 zhúo: 着 zhuo2: to wear (clothes); to contact; to use; to apply着 zhe: 着 zhe5: aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state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
- pearl; jewel (of great value)
- tooth; dental; CL:顆|颗[ke1]
- to arrange in order; (math.) permutation
- orderly; neat; even; tidy
- shell (of a mollusk)