- 委 wěi: 委 wei3: to entrust; to cast aside; to shift (blame etc); to accumulate; roundabout; winding; dejected; listless; committee member; council; end; actually; certainly委 Wěi: 委 Wei3: surname Wei委 wēi: 委 wei1: used in 委蛇[wei1 yi2]
- character; nature; quality; plain; to pawn; pledge; hostage; to question; Taiwan pr. [zhi2]
- to give oneself wholly to; to put oneself at sb's service; (of a woman) to give one's body to; to marry
- matter; thing; item; work; affair; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1],回[hui2]
- figure; physique; form and structure
- someone; people; anyone; there is someone there; occupied (as in restroom)
- to believe; to think; to consider; to feel
- 给 jǐ: 给 ji3: to supply; to provide给 gěi: 给 gei3: to; for; for the benefit of; to give; to allow; to do sth (for sb); (grammatical equivalent of 被); (grammatical equivalent of 把); (sentence intensifier)
- owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games)
- to offer (respectfully); to present
- to formally present oneself before a superior (e.g. a ruler, high-ranking official or esteemed figure) for an official meeting; to have an audience with
- gift; present; CL:件[jian4],份[fen4]
- same; ordinary; so-so; common; general; generally; in general
- ringed pheasant
- senior provincial official in imperial China
- place (in numbered sequence); degree on employment scale
- the nine top officials (in imperial China)
- tallest; highest; supreme (court etc)
- senior official; senior officer; commanding officer; CL:位[wei4]; sir (term of address for senior officer)
- equivalent to
- therefore; as a result; so; the reason why
- to rank
- to supervise; to manage; to administer; management; administration; CL:個|个[ge4]
- Confucian code of ethics
- (after a noun) between; among; amid; (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 彈指之間|弹指之间[tan2 zhi3 zhi1 jian1])
- relation; relationship; to concern; to affect; to have to do with; guanxi; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to refer in particular to
- superior and subordinate; social ranking
- older and younger; seniority
- grade; rank; status
- to draw up; to formulate
- etiquette; ceremony
- 度 dù: 度 du4: to pass; to spend (time); measure; limit; extent; degree of intensity; degree (angles, temperature etc); kilowatt-hour; classifier for events and occurrences度 dúo: 度 duo2: to estimate; Taiwan pr. [duo4]
- ignorant; ignorance
- to sympathize; to pity; to feel compassion for; (literary) to feel sorrow; to be grieved
- Classic of Rites
- 檀 Tán: 檀 Tan2: surname Tan檀 tán: 檀 tan2: sandalwood; hardwood; purple-red
- 弓 Gōng: 弓 Gong1: surname Gong弓 gōng: 弓 gong1: a bow (weapon); CL:張|张[zhang1]; to bend; to arch (one's back etc)
- to reach adulthood; an adult
- to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned
- 闻 wén: 闻 wen2: to hear; news; well-known; famous; reputation; fame; to smell; to sniff at闻 Wén: 闻 Wen2: surname Wen
- 将 qiāng: 将 qiang1: to desire; to invite; to request将 jiāng: 将 jiang1: will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把[ba3])将 jiàng: 将 jiang4: (bound form) a general; (literary) to command; to lead; (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)
- 成 Chéng: 成 Cheng2: surname Cheng; short name for Chengdu 成都[Cheng2 du1]成 chéng: 成 cheng2: to succeed; to finish; to complete; to accomplish; to become; to turn into; to be all right; OK!; one tenth
- to slaughter; to butcher; to kill (animals etc); (coll.) to fleece; to rip off; to overcharge; (bound form) to govern; to rule; (bound form) (a title for certain government officials in ancient China)
- 遂 súi: 遂 sui2: used in 半身不遂[ban4 shen1 bu4 sui2]; Taiwan pr. [sui4]遂 sùi: 遂 sui4: to satisfy; to succeed; then; thereupon; finally; unexpectedly; to proceed; to reach
- silkworm
- to spin (hemp etc); merit; accomplishment; Taiwan pr. [ji1]
- crab
- 匡 kuāng: 匡 kuang1: (literary) to rectify; (literary) to assist; (coll.) to calculate roughly; to estimate匡 Kuāng: 匡 Kuang1: surname Kuang