- to surrender; to succumb; to yield; (as a transitive verb) to defeat; to prevail over
- will; resolution; aspiration
- wide; broad; extensive; vast
- persevering; tenacious
- pure; unadulterated; purely; completely
- Confucian scholar
- 易 yì: 易 yi4: easy; amiable; to change; to exchange; prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible"易 Yì: 易 Yi4: surname Yi; I Ching; Book of Changes (abbr. for 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1])
- professor; to instruct; to lecture on; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
- disciple
- 表 biǎo: 表 biao3: exterior surface; family relationship via females; to show (one's opinion); a model; a table (listing information); a form; a meter (measuring sth)表 biǎo: 表 biao3: watch (timepiece); meter; gauge
- military officer
- 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)
- 宗 zōng: 宗 zong1: school; sect; purpose; model; ancestor; clan; to take as one's model (in academic or artistic work); classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs宗 Zōng: 宗 Zong1: surname Zong
- to fail to live up (to expectations); unworthy (of trust); to let down; to betray (hopes); to disappoint
- to abandon; to desert; to renounce
- one's conduct; deed; activity; accomplishment; achievement; to act as; as (in the capacity of); qua; to view as; to look upon (sth as); to take sth to be
- not equal to; not as good as; inferior to; it would be better to
- another person; sb else; other people
- dazzling; to show off; to flaunt
- sentence
- hard to solve; hard to dispel; hard to understand; hard to undo
- 卢 Lú: 卢 Lu2: surname Lu; abbr. for Luxembourg 盧森堡|卢森堡[Lu2 sen1 bao3]卢 lú: 卢 lu2: (old) rice vessel; black; (slang) (Tw) troublesome; fussy
- 文 Wén: 文 Wen2: surname Wen文 wén: 文 wen2: language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67
- unbent bow
- group; crowd; flock, herd, pack etc
- 书 Shū: 书 Shu1: abbr. for 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1]书 shū: 书 shu1: book; letter; document; CL:本[ben3],冊|册[ce4],部[bu4]; to write
- 拾 shè: 拾 she4: to ascend in light steps拾 shí: 拾 shi2: to pick up; to collate or arrange; ten (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
- to repair; to patch; to mend; to make up for; to fill (a vacancy); to supplement
- sentence; clause; phrase; classifier for phrases or lines of verse
- omission; missing word
- 泰 tài: 泰 tai4: safe; peaceful; most; grand泰 Tài: 泰 Tai4: Mt Tai 泰山[Tai4 Shan1] in Shandong; abbr. for Thailand
- son born of a concubine; disaster; sin; evil
- disaster
- to avert; to prevent; to avoid; to refrain from
- to escape; to evade; to avoid; to shirk
- (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
- Zuo Zhuan or Tsochuan, Mr Zuo's Annals or Mr Zuo's commentary on 春秋[Chun1 qiu1], early history c. 400 BC attributed to famous blind historian Zuo Qiuming 左丘明[Zuo3 Qiu1 ming2]
- 庄 Zhuāng: 庄 Zhuang1: surname Zhuang庄 zhuāng: 庄 zhuang1: farmstead; village; manor; place of business; banker (in a gambling game); grave or solemn; holdings of a landlord (in imperial China)
- fourteen; 14
- 年 Nián: 年 Nian2: surname Nian年 nián: 年 nian2: year; CL:個|个[ge4]年 nián: 年 nian2: grain; harvest (old)
- gas; air; smell; weather; to make angry; to annoy; to get angry; vital energy; qi
- to take; to get; to choose; to fetch
- people