- (bound form) hinge; pivot (usu. fig.)
- 瓮 wèng: 瓮 weng4: earthen jar; urn瓮 wèng: 瓮 weng4: pottery container for water, wine etc瓮 Wèng: 瓮 Weng4: surname Weng
- two; 2; (Beijing dialect) stupid
- brown; gray or dark color; coarse hemp cloth; Taiwan pr. [he2]
- 匡 kuāng: 匡 kuang1: (literary) to rectify; (literary) to assist; (coll.) to calculate roughly; to estimate匡 Kuāng: 匡 Kuang1: surname Kuang
- 坐 Zùo: 坐 Zuo4: surname Zuo坐 zùo: 坐 zuo4: to sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, airplane etc); to bear fruit
- bow string; string of musical instrument; watchspring; chord (segment of curve); hypotenuse; CL:根[gen1]
- 司寇 sī kòu: 司寇 si1 kou4: minister of criminal justice (official rank in imperial China)司寇 Sī kòu: 司寇 Si1 kou4: two-character surname Sikou
- to taste; to try (food); to experience; (literary) ever; once
- 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)
- soldier; servant; to finish; to die; finally; at last; pawn in Chinese chess
- to withdraw from the fray and live in seclusion; to retire
- tree; CL:棵[ke1]; to cultivate; to set up
- (bound form) house; (bound form) room
- pillar; CL:根[gen1]
- house; building; CL:所[suo3],套[tao4]
- simple and crude
- popular feeling; the will of the people
- to go against; to be contrary to; to violate
- aforementioned; above-mentioned
- translated text
- to write an account (of events)
- or; possibly; maybe; perhaps
- or; either one or the other
- to harangue; loud arrogant talk; to spout
- to admire; to praise; to eulogize
- target; goal; objective; CL:個|个[ge4]
- all different; each unto his own
- the end; end point; finishing line (in a race); destination; terminus; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to agree on sth (after discussion); to conclude a bargain; to arrange; to promise; to stipulate; to make an appointment; stipulated (time, amount, quality etc); an arrangement; a deal; appointment; undertaking; commitment; understanding; engagement; stipulation
- voluntary; autonomous; by oneself; self-
- only; merely; no more than; but; however; anyway (to get back to a previous topic); cannot be more (after adjectival)
- each; respective; apiece
- somewhat; to some extent
- therefore; as a result; so; the reason why
- to forage; to gather for eating; to pick and eat
- country; nation; state
- to depart; to leave
- one's home town or village
- to rub one's head and heels (idiom); to slave for the benefit of others; to wear oneself out for the general good
- gross profit
- to serve as an official; an official; the two chess pieces in Chinese chess guarding the "general" or "king" 將|将[jiang4]