- innate character; natural disposition; attitude
- avaricious; greedy; rapacious; insatiable; avid
- external; outside; outward appearance
- 方正 Fāng zhèng: 方正 Fang1 zheng4: see 方正縣|方正县[Fang1 zheng4 Xian4]方正 fāng zhèng: 方正 fang1 zheng4: clear and square; neat; square (person)
- heart; innermost being; (math.) incenter
- smooth and evasive; slick and sly
- (idiom) to form a clique for self-serving purposes
- to take unfair advantage of; to deceive; to cheat
- 地方 dì fāng: 地方 di4 fang1: region; regional (away from the central administration); local地方 dì fang: 地方 di4 fang5: place; location; area; space; territory; aspect; part; CL:處|处[chu4]
- desolate; shortage; scarce; out of practice; absurd; uncultivated; to neglect
- 世 shì: 世 shi4: life; age; generation; era; world; lifetime; epoch; descendant; noble世 Shì: 世 Shi4: surname Shi
- in confusion or disorder; in a confused state of mind; disorder; upheaval; riot; illicit sexual relations; to throw into disorder; to mix up; indiscriminate; random; arbitrary
- hollow; emptiness; meaningless
- lit. cries of complaint fill the roads (idiom); complaints rise all around; discontent is openly voiced
- (lit. and fig.) deep
- to think; to believe (often with the implication that the belief is mistaken – unless referring to one's own current belief)
- to assist (usually a ruler)
- 属 shǔ: 属 shu3: category; genus (taxonomy); family members; dependents; to belong to; subordinate to; affiliated with; be born in the year of (one of the 12 animals); to be; to prove to be; to constitute属 zhǔ: 属 zhu3: to join together; to fix one's attention on; to concentrate on
- to contend on strong grounds; to argue strongly for what is right
- this way; like this; so; (before a noun) this kind of; such
- to lose; to miss; to fail
- 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)
- tyrannical; brutal (regime)
- who; also pr. [shui2]
- to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
- to maintain order; steward (policing a meeting)
- monarch; sovereign
- even if; even though
- in (some place); to be in (adversity, a difficult situation, danger, turmoil etc); to find oneself in; placed in; surrounded by
- danger; dangerous
- circumstances
- but; yet; however; still; merely; only; just
- so long as; provided; if
- chancellor (of a monarchy); cabinet minister
- 那 Nā: 那 Na1: surname Na那 Núo: 那 Nuo2: surname Nuo那 nà: 那 na4: (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nei4]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case)那 núo: 那 nuo2: (archaic) many; beautiful; how
- 也 Yě: 也 Ye3: surname Ye也 yě: 也 ye3: also; too; as well; (not ...) either; (used after a verbal or nominal expression X to indicate that X is an extreme or unexpected case) even (X); (literary) particle having functions similar to 啊[a5]
- to be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish; to die out; to destroy; to exterminate
- I; me; my
- (courteous) to be so bold as to
- to hold or offer with both hands; to sing the praises of; classifier for what can be held in both hands
- 听 yǐn: 听 yin3: smile (archaic)听 tīng: 听 ting1: to listen to; to hear; to heed; to obey; a can (loanword from English "tin"); classifier for canned beverages; to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4]); (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4])
- 了 le: 了 le5: (completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now); (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)了 liǎo: 了 liao3: to finish; (used with 得[de2] or 不[bu4] after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了[wang4 bu5 liao3] "cannot forget"); (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 無|无[wu2] or 不[bu4]) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least了 liǎo: 了 liao3: (of eyes) bright; clear-sighted; to understand clearly
- very; really; unusual; extraordinary
- ashamed
- cautious; careful; solemnly; sincerely (formal)
- 谏 Jiàn: 谏 Jian4: surname Jian谏 jiàn: 谏 jian4: to remonstrate; to admonish
- five; 5
- wind; news; style; custom; manner; CL:陣|阵[zhen4],絲|丝[si1]