- first month of the lunar year
- to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart; (used after a verb) extremely
- to act against one's will; to have no alternative but to; to have to; to have no choice; must
- disaster; misfortune; calamity
- Chinese language (Mandarin), emphasizing its national nature; Chinese as a primary or secondary school subject; Chinese in the context of the Nationalist Government; Guoyu, book of historical narrative c. 10th-5th century BC
- to reward; reward (as encouragement)
- to give birth to; to bear; fertility
- to foster; to bring up; to raise
- rather
- to give; to deliver; to hand over
- historical biography
- door; strategic gateway; portal; faction; sect; family status; family; web portal; (old) brothel
- person from the same village, town, or province
- to listen and obey; to comply with; to heed; to hearken
- (legal) case; incident; record; file; table
- to treat as; to regard as
- 昔 xī: 昔 xi1: former times; the past; Taiwan pr. [xi2]昔 Xī: 昔 Xi1: surname Xi
- remaining; extant
- expression of opinion; views; remarks; arguments
- The Analects of Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3]
- (bound form) to state; to tell; to narrate; to relate
- to enlist; to draft; to conscript; to appoint to an official position
- to appoint; (job) appointment; CL:紙|纸[zhi3]
- next in sequence; second; the second (day, time etc); secondary; vice-; sub-; infra-; inferior quality; substandard; order; sequence; hypo- (chemistry); classifier for enumerated events: time
- to ask; to inquire
- 辟 pì: 辟 pi4: penal law辟 bì: 辟 bi4: (literary) king; monarch; (literary) (of a sovereign) to summon to official service辟 pì: 辟 pi4: to open (a door); to open up (for development); to dispel; to refute; to repudiate; (bound form) penetrating; incisive
- 世 Shì: 世 Shi4: surname Shi世 shì: 世 shi4: life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime; epoch; descendant; noble
- next; secondly
- 地 dì: 地 di4: earth; ground; field; place; land; CL:片[pian4]地 de: 地 de5: -ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
- 色 shǎi: 色 shai3: (coll.) color; used in 色子[shai3 zi5]色 sè: 色 se4: color; CL:種|种[zhong3]; look; appearance; sex
- seven; 7
- surname Xing; place name
- bright; glorious
- 疏 Shū: 疏 Shu1: surname Shu疏 shū: 疏 shu1: to dredge; to clear away obstruction; thin; sparse; scanty; distant (relation); not close; to neglect; negligent; to present a memorial to the Emperor; commentary; annotation
- (since) ancient times; (from) time immemorial
- to live in seclusion; reclusive; hermit; recluse
- for this reason; with regards to this; in this respect; in order to do this; to this end
- pedestrian; walker; itinerant monk
- ordinary; commonplace; mundane; temporal; of the material world (as opposed to supernatural or immortal levels); every; all; whatever; altogether; gist; outline; note of Chinese musical scale
- 士 Shì: 士 Shi4: surname Shi士 shì: 士 shi4: member of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor; honorific; soldier; noncommissioned officer; specialist worker
- now; at present; currently