- to ascertain; to act on; to criticize; to pass on; classifier for batches, lots, military flights; tier (for the ranking of universities and colleges)
- 把 bà: 把 ba4: handle把 bǎ: 把 ba3: to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb})
- free reed wind instrument similar to the sheng 笙[sheng1], used in ancient China
- reed (of a music instrument); spring; coil
- flute; key
- bamboo flute with 7 or 8 holes
- xiao, a vertical bamboo flute
- a sound; a noise; musical pipe with 3 reeds
- (bamboo); trumpet for chariots
- seven; 7
- Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3]
- Mencius 孟子 (c. 372-c. 289), Confucian philosopher
- 孙 sūn: 孙 sun1: grandson; descendant孙 Sūn: 孙 Sun1: surname Sun
- moreover; situation
- 虞 Yú: 虞 Yu2: surname Yu虞 yú: 虞 yu2: (literary) to expect; to anticipate; (literary) to be concerned about; to be apprehensive; (literary) to deceive; to dupe
- high ranking official (old); term of endearment between spouses (old); (from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old); honorific (old)
- Lord Menchang of Qi, Chancellor of Qi and of Wei during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
- Han Xin (-196 BC), famous general of first Han emperor Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1]
- Li Guang (-119 BC), Han dynasty general, nicknamed Flying General 飛將軍|飞将军 and much feared by the Xiongnu 匈奴
- see 中山市[Zhong1 shan1 Shi4]; see 中山區|中山区[Zhong1 shan1 Qu1]; Nakayama (Japanese surname); see 孫中山|孙中山[Sun1 Zhong1 shan1]
- 祝 Zhù: 祝 Zhu4: surname Zhu祝 zhù: 祝 zhu4: to pray for; to wish (sb bon voyage, happy birthday etc); person who invokes the spirits during sacrificial ceremonies
- quiet; calm; tranquil; peaceful
- 蕃 bō: 蕃 bo1: see 吐蕃[Tu3 bo1]蕃 fán: 蕃 fan2: luxuriant; flourishing; to reproduce; to proliferate蕃 fān: 蕃 fan1: foreign (non-Chinese)
- eight
- to sacrifice; to offer libation to
- canon; law; standard work of scholarship; literary quotation or allusion; ceremony; to be in charge of; to mortgage or pawn
- beforehand; first; earlier; at first; originally; for the time being; for now; (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself)
- (bound form) society; organization; agency; (old) god of the land
- 神 Shén: 神 Shen2: God神 shén: 神 shen2: god; deity; supernatural; magical; mysterious; spirit; mind; energy; lively; expressive; look; expression; (coll.) awesome; amazing
- millet; God of cereals worshiped by ancient rulers; minister of agriculture
- quick; alert; efficacious; effective; to come true; spirit; departed soul; coffin
- star; heavenly body; satellite; small amount
- Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen
- wind; news; style; custom; manner; CL:陣|阵[zhen4],絲|丝[si1]
- peach
- branch; stem; stalk; CL:根[gen1]; to block; to hinder; (neologism that evolved from 哏[gen2], initially in Taiwan, during the first decade of the 21st century) memorable creative idea (joke, catchphrase, meme, neologism, witty remark etc); prominent feature of a creative work (punchline of a joke, trope in a drama, special ingredient in a dish, riff in a pop song etc)
- reed; rush; Phragmites communis
- Zizania aquatica
- rooster
- to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart; (used after a verb) extremely
- dog; CL:隻|只[zhi1],條|条[tiao2]
- old term for the right-falling stroke in Chinese characters (e.g. the last stroke of 大[da4]), now called 捺[na4]; sound made by birds (onom.); (literary) to dismember (form of punishment); to spread
- city; village