- 义 Yì: 义 Yi4: surname Yi; (Tw) Italy (abbr. for 義大利|义大利[Yi4 da4 li4])义 yì: 义 yi4: justice; righteousness; meaning; foster (father etc); adopted; artificial (tooth, limb etc); relationship; friendship
- law and order
- ethical norms governing human relationships
- 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]
- head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc
- to advocate; to initiate; to propose; to be a proponent of (an idea or school of thought)
- to disobey; to violate; to separate; to go against
- to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger
- Mt Tai 泰山 in Shandong, one of the Five Sacred Mountains 五嶽|五岳[Wu3 yue4]
- 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
- how? (emphatic question)
- (exclamatory or interrogative particle)
- to follow; from; because of; due to; by; via; through; (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ...
- surname Cheng; Zhou Dynasty (1046–256 BCE) vassal state
- to lose; to miss; to fail
- elder brother
- 皋 gāo: 皋 gao1: bank; marsh皋 gāo: 皋 gao1: high riverbank
- although; even though
- to belong to; affiliated to; to result in sth; to incline towards
- 语 yù: 语 yu4: (literary) to tell; to let (sb) know语 yǔ: 语 yu3: dialect; language; speech
- (bound form) root; stem; (bound form) origin; source; (bound form) one's own; this; (bound form) this; the current (year etc); (bound form) original; (bound form) inherent; originally; initially; capital; principal; classifier for books, periodicals, files etc
- Rites and Ceremonies, part of the Confucian Classic of Rites 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4]
- mourning garment
- 传 zhuàn: 传 zhuan4: biography; historical narrative; commentaries; relay station传 chuán: 传 chuan2: to pass on; to spread; to transmit; to infect; to transfer; to circulate; to conduct (electricity)
- 大夫 dài fu: 大夫 dai4 fu5: doctor; physician大夫 dà fū: 大夫 da4 fu1: senior official (in imperial China)
- (literary) why; how
- 扫 sào: 扫 sao4: (bound form) a (large) broom扫 sǎo: 扫 sao3: to sweep (with a brush or broom); to sweep away; to wipe out; to get rid of; to sweep (one's eyes etc) over; to scan
- temple; ancestral shrine
- 民 Mín: 民 Min2: surname Min民 mín: 民 min2: (bound form) the people; inhabitants of a country
- (classical particle similar to 於|于[yu2]) in; at; from; because; than; (classical final particle similar to 嗎|吗[ma5], 吧[ba5], 呢[ne5], expressing question, doubt or astonishment)
- road; path (CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]); (bound form) way; reason; principle; (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization; (Daoism) the Way; the Dao; to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel); (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words); classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process; (old) circuit (administrative division)
- as if; (just) like; just as; still; yet
- not yet; did not; have not; not; 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep; ancient Chinese compass point: 210°
- to cut short; extinct; to disappear; to vanish; absolutely; by no means
- 策 Cè: 策 Ce4: surname Ce策 cè: 策 ce4: policy; plan; scheme; bamboo slip for writing (old); to whip (a horse); to encourage; riding crop with sharp spines (old); essay written for the imperial examinations (old); upward horizontal stroke in calligraphy
- name; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners); famous; classifier for people
- name (of a person or thing); CL:個|个[ge4]
- 写 xiě: 写 xie3: to write写 xiè: 写 xie4: used in 寫意|写意[xie4 yi4]
- to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
- people of ancient times; the ancients; extinct human species such as Homo erectus or Homo neanderthalensis; (literary) deceased person
- to begin; beginning; to start; initial; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to take an official post; to become a government employee
- to have to; must; compulsory; necessarily
- beforehand; first; earlier; at first; originally; for the time being; for now; (prefix) my late (in referring to deceased relatives older than oneself)
- exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也[ye3]) even; even if
- to take up an official post
- idea; opinion; meaning; wish; desire; interest; fun; token of appreciation, affection etc; CL:個|个[ge4]; to give as a small token; to do sth as a gesture of goodwill etc