- 后 Hòu: 后 Hou4: surname Hou后 hòu: 后 hou4: empress; queen; (archaic) monarch; ruler后 hòu: 后 hou4: back; behind; rear; afterwards; after; later; post-
- see 建寧縣|建宁县[Jian4 ning2 Xian4]
- court; imperial household; dynasty
- 大 dà: 大 da4: big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)大 dài: 大 dai4: see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
- to catch; to seize; to capture
- party member; partisan
- to imprison
- to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned
- to persevere with; to persist in; to insist on
- actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 论 lùn: 论 lun4: opinion; view; theory; doctrine; to discuss; to talk about; to regard; to consider; per; by the (kilometer, hour etc)论 Lún: 论 Lun2: abbr. for 論語|论语[Lun2 yu3], The Analects (of Confucius)
- (bound form) meritorious accomplishment
- to have; to incorporate; to feature
- north and south; north to south
- 庐 Lú: 庐 Lu2: surname Lu; Luzhou or Lu Prefecture 廬州|庐州[Lu2 Zhou1], a prefecture between the 6th and 13th centuries in present-day Anhui; Mount Lu 廬山|庐山[Lu2 Shan1] in Jiangxi Province庐 lú: 庐 lu2: hut
- office; bureau; (Taiwan pr. [shu4]) to sign; to arrange
- 从 cóng: 从 cong2: from; through; via; (bound form) to follow; (bound form) to obey; (bound form) to engage in (an activity); (used before a negative) ever; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) retainer; attendant; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) assistant; auxiliary; subordinate; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor从 Cóng: 从 Cong2: surname Cong
- 诸 Zhū: 诸 Zhu1: surname Zhu诸 zhū: 诸 zhu1: all; various
- doctor (Chinese medicine); ancient official title; companions (respectful)
- to choose; to pick; to select; to elect
- 高 gāo: 高 gao1: high; tall; above average; loud; your (honorific)高 Gāo: 高 Gao1: surname Gao
- (prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六[di4 liu4] "sixth"); (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed; (old) residence of a high official; (literary) but; however; (literary) only; just
- (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...; -er; -ist; (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously); (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term); (old) (used at the end of a command); (old) this
- to hold a governmental office or post; to assume office of; to take charge of; to serve as
- in charge; responsible for; person in charge; manager
- some; a certain; sb or sth indefinite; such-and-such
- respect; aspect; field; side; CL:個|个[ge4]
- (political, economic etc) affairs; work; transaction (as in a computer database)
- to praise; to commend
- morality and conduct; Taiwan pr. [de2 xing4]
- mother
- funeral arrangements
- finger; to point at or to; to indicate or refer to; to depend on; to count on; (of hair) to stand on end
- concentrated; dense; strong (smell etc)
- dense; crowded; thick; many
- rich; plentiful
- enough; sufficient
- 语 yǔ: 语 yu3: dialect; language; speech语 yù: 语 yu4: (literary) to tell; to let (sb) know
- (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
- Classic of Rites
- to record; to note; to memorize; to remember; mark; sign; classifier for blows, kicks, shots
- monarch; lord; gentleman; ruler
- affairs of the nation; politics
- 大夫 dà fū: 大夫 da4 fu1: senior official (in imperial China)大夫 dài fu: 大夫 dai4 fu5: doctor; physician
- 士 Shì: 士 Shi4: surname Shi士 shì: 士 shi4: member of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor; honorific; soldier; noncommissioned officer; specialist worker
- work-related matters; documents
- family matters; domestic affairs; housework
- namely; that is; i.e.; prompt; at once; at present; even if; prompted (by the occasion); to approach; to come into contact; to assume (office); to draw near