- four; 4
- 传 chuán: 传 chuan2: to pass on; to spread; to transmit; to infect; to transfer; to circulate; to conduct (electricity)传 zhuàn: 传 zhuan4: biography; historical narrative; commentaries; relay station
- to arrive; most; to; until
- (literary) exemplary; virtuous
- respectful (ly)
- to hold in store; to contain (untapped reserves etc)
- to cherish
- to cherish; to treasure; to use sparingly
- fame; reputation; honor; honorary; emeritus (of retired professor)
- social status; price of a slave; price of a person (a sportsman etc); worth; value (of stocks, valuables etc)
- regime; political power
- to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
- in hand; (a situation is) in sb's hands
- day; sky; heaven
- to record; to note; to memorize; to remember; mark; sign; classifier for blows, kicks, shots
- to draw (e.g. a bow); to pull; to stretch sth; to extend; to lengthen; to involve or implicate in; to attract; to lead; to guide; to leave; to provide evidence or justification for; old unit of distance equal to 10 丈[zhang4], one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters
- sentence; clause; phrase; classifier for phrases or lines of verse
- 作 zūo: 作 zuo1: (bound form) worker; (bound form) workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person)作 zùo: 作 zuo4: to do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign; to regard as; to consider to be; to be; to act the part of; to feel (itchy, nauseous etc); writings; works
- personal; private; selfish
- 门 Mén: 门 Men2: surname Men门 mén: 门 men2: gate; door; doorway; gateway; opening (CL:扇[shan4]); valve; switch; other door-like or gate-like structure; way to do sth; knack; method; approach; family; household; lineage; (bound form) sect; school; faction (religious or academic); (bound form) class; category; division; phylum; classifier for courses, fields of study, branches of technology, relatives by marriage, guns etc; (suffix) -gate (scandal)
- 夫 fū: 夫 fu1: husband; man; manual worker; conscripted laborer (old)夫 fú: 夫 fu2: (classical) this, that; he, she, they; (exclamatory final particle); (initial particle, introduces an opinion)
- 何为 hé wèi: 何为 he2 wei4: (old) why何为 hé wéi: 何为 he2 wei2: what is; (old) what for; (in a rhetorical question) it's no use
- small; tiny; few; young
- maybe; perhaps; might; possibly; or
- wooden raft; log raft
- to ride (in a car or carriage); to drive; to motor
- auxiliary word
- night walk; night departure; nocturnal
- Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
- 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]
- craftsman
- minister in charge of the palace treasury in imperial China
- official institution; state bureau
- to guide; to lead
- work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labor
- 徒 tú: 徒 tu2: (bound form) disciple; apprentice; believer; (derog.) wrongdoer (as in 騙徒|骗徒[pian4 tu2] "swindler" or 叛徒[pan4 tu2] "traitor" etc); (bound form) on foot; (bound form) bare; empty; (bound form) to no avail; in vain; (bound form) merely; just; only; (bound form) prison sentence徒 Tú: 徒 Tu2: surname Tu
- to build; to repair
- temple; ancestral shrine
- cemetery; mausoleum park
- road; path; way; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- (literary) salary according to rank; (literary) an official's rank; (literary) order; orderliness; (literary) decade
- 石 shí: 石 shi2: rock; stone; stone inscription; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]石 Shí: 石 Shi2: surname Shi; abbr. for Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1], the capital of Hebei石 dàn: 石 dan4: dry measure for grain equal to ten dou 斗[dou3]; one hundred liters; ancient pr. [shi2]
- bureaucrat; official
- to break the law