- (a) law
- even; so much so that
- due to; to stem from
- selfishness; selfish motives
- to abscond; to be absent without leave
- his; her; its; their; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it)
- 都 Dū: 都 Du1: surname Du都 dōu: 都 dou1: all; both; entirely; (used for emphasis) even; already; (not) at all都 dū: 都 du1: capital city; metropolis
- not an exaggeration; not excessive; not wide of the mark
- the fifth (of series of numbered kings)
- public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal)
- hidebound by convention (idiom)
- to pay no attention to; to disregard; to ignore; to let go unpunished; to let off
- to appoint; to assign
- talent; talented person; looks; attractive looks
- 戴 Dài: 戴 Dai4: surname Dai戴 dài: 戴 dai4: to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc); to respect; to bear; to support
- young
- to rise; to raise; to get up; to set out; to start; to appear; to launch; to initiate (action); to draft; to establish; to get (from a depot or counter); verb suffix, to start; starting from (a time, place, price etc); classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance; classifier for groups: batch, group
- high-sounding speech; bombast; high-profile
- money; wealth; riches; property; valuables
- incorruptible; unbribable; honest
- 赵 Zhào: 赵 Zhao4: surname Zhao; one of the seven states during the Warring States period (476–220 BC); the Former Zhao 前趙|前赵[Qian2 Zhao4] (304–329) and Later Zhao 後趙|后赵[Hou4 Zhao4] (319–350), states of the Sixteen Kingdoms赵 zhào: 赵 zhao4: to surpass (old)
- without permission
- to leave one's job temporarily (e.g. for study); to leave one's job; to resign
- to abandon all restraint (idiom)
- things like this (idiom); and so on; and the rest; etc
- person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc); (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting
- to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
- 当时 dāng shí: 当时 dang1 shi2: then; at that time当时 dàng shí: 当时 dang4 shi2: immediately; right then
- to win; to gain
- surely; certainly; definitely; fixed; settled; a certain ...; a given ...
- but; yet; however; still; merely; only; just
- the wording and purport of what one writes
- pedantic; trite; inflexible; adherence to old ideas
- false; hypocritical; artificial; sham
- (idiom) to bluff; to bluster; to make an empty show of strength
- and; moreover; yet; for the time being; to be about to; both (... and...)
- (idiom) unable to withstand a single blow; to collapse at the first blow
- lit. to quote the classics; to quote chapter and verse (idiom)
- to use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using; to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions); usefulness; utility; (bound form) expense; outlay; (courteous) to eat; to drink; (literary) hence; therefore
- Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3]
- to wait for; to await; by the time; when; till; and so on; etc.; et al.; (bound form) class; rank; grade; (bound form) equal to; same as; (used to end an enumeration); (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun)
- sage; the Sage (i.e. Confucius); (old) (respectful way of addressing a monarch) your sagacious majesty; (religion) saint
- virtuous person; a man of merit
- to come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb); hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2 lai5]); ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4 gu3 yi3 lai2]); for the past (amount of time); (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2 shi4]); (between two verbs) in order to; (after a round number) approximately; (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2 de5 lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1 bu5 lai2])
- to make; to produce; to write; to compose; to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc); (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc); (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for; to assume (an air or manner)
- to contrast; contrast; ratio; CL:個|个[ge4]