- (literary) salary according to rank; (literary) an official's rank; (literary) order; orderliness; (literary) decade
- 比 Bǐ: 比 Bi3: Belgium; Belgian; abbr. for 比利時|比利时[Bi3 li4 shi2]比 bǐ: 比 bi3: to compare; (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun}; ratio; to gesture; (Taiwan pr. [bi4] in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese)
- position; location; place; seat; classifier for people (honorific); classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes); (physics) potential
- 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)
- system of enfeoffment; feudalism; feudal; feudalistic
- ethics
- miscellany of writing from the Western Han (aka Former Han)
- 山 shān: 山 shan1: mountain; hill (CL:座[zuo4]); (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on山 Shān: 山 Shan1: surname Shan
- to teach; to train; to admonish; (bound form) instruction (from superiors); teachings; rule
- happening; instance; reason; cause; intentional; former; old; friend; therefore; hence; (of people) to die, dead
- contrary; in reverse; inside out or upside down; to reverse; to return; to oppose; opposite; against; anti-; to rebel; to use analogy; instead; abbr. for 反切[fan3 qie4] phonetic system
- (literary) to induce; to entice
- 注 zhù: 注 zhu4: (bound form) to pour into; to flow into; to inject; (bound form) to focus (one's spirit, gaze etc) on a single point; to concentrate; (bound form) stake (in gambling); classifier for stakes, sums of money, transactions or beams of light注 zhù: 注 zhu4: to annotate; to provide explanatory notes on a written text; an annotation; an explanatory note; (bound form) to put on record; to register
- proverb
- who; also pr. [shui2]
- to praise; to acclaim
- usually; in many cases; more often than not
- (bound form) to patronize; to support; to aid; (bound form) to praise; to laud
- as if; (just) like; just as; still; yet
- to understand; to know; to comprehend
- to protect
- to die; to lose one's life
- to grow up
- to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy; to absorb; to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
- owl
- same type; category 1 (i.e. class A)
- animal; CL:隻|只[zhi1],群[qun2],個|个[ge4]
- position; status; place; CL:個|个[ge4]
- time; length of time; moment; period
- specialized; dedicated (to a particular field or purpose); specially; specifically (for a particular purpose); (of institutions, personnel etc) designated or assigned for a specific task; special
- position; place; seat; CL:個|个[ge4]
- alone; by oneself; on one's own
- hotel; CL:家[jia1]
- to go out somewhere (relatively short trip); to set off on a journey (longer trip)
- 拉 là: 拉 la4: used in 拉拉蛄[la4 la4 gu3]拉 lá: 拉 la2: to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash拉 lā: 拉 la1: to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels
- red (color); revolutionary
- (literary) chassis of a carriage (contrasted with the canopy 堪[kan1]); (literary) (fig.) the earth (while the carriage canopy is a metaphor for heaven); land; territory; (literary) carriage; (literary) sedan chair; palanquin; (bound form) the multitudes; the people; the public
- (courteous) home; residence (not one's own)
- 会 hùi: 会 hui4: can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet; to get together; meeting; gathering; (suffix) union; group; association; (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [hui3])会 kuài: 会 kuai4: (bound form) to reckon accounts
- official (in an organization or government); administrator
- plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals
- to live; to reside; to stay; to stop; to cease; (result complement indicating firmness or a stable achieved state)
- to maintain order; steward (policing a meeting)