- office; duty
- to receive in no small measure
- 幸 xìng: 幸 xing4: trusted; intimate; (of the emperor) to visit幸 xìng: 幸 xing4: fortunate; lucky幸 Xìng: 幸 Xing4: surname Xing
- to be in a position of power
- to exist in name only; empty shell; useless (idiom)
- famous; noted; well-known; celebrated
- the nine top officials (in imperial China)
- one of (sth); one out of a multitude; one (third, quarter, percent etc)
- to follow; from; because of; due to; by; via; through; (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ...
- the imperial family; royal kin
- to fill a post of; to act as
- (political, economic etc) affairs; work; transaction (as in a computer database)
- mechanism; gear; machine-operated; office; agency; organ; organization; establishment; institution; body; stratagem; scheme; intrigue; plot; trick
- senior official; senior officer; commanding officer; CL:位[wei4]; sir (term of address for senior officer)
- to hunt and kill (an animal or fish)
- to repeal; to revoke; (computing) to undo
- proverb
- one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
- picture; image; film; movie; photograph; reflection; shadow; trace
- to pay no attention to; to disregard; to ignore; to let go unpunished; to let off
- what is true and what is false; (to get to know) the real situation
- to say what everyone says (idiom); to conform to what one perceives to be the majority view; to follow the herd
- to write down; to record; written account
- to be good at; to be expert in
- therefore; as a result; so; the reason why
- very; really; unusual; extraordinary
- to esteem; to respect; to honor; to value; eminent; serious; proper
- arts of healing, divination, horoscope etc; supernatural arts (old)
- freak; weird
- to discuss
- to cast (pour metal into a mold)
- financial resources
- used up; dried up; exhausted (of resources)
- power; force; strength
- to exhaust; to use up completely
- haven't; hasn't; doesn't exist; to not have; to not be
- what?; something; anything
- result; achievement; gain; profit; CL:個|个[ge4]
- thereupon; as a result; consequently; thus; hence
- to scheme; to plot; conspiracy
- official seal; imperial or royal seal; papal bull
- that level or lower; that amount or less; the following