- a stand for food at sacrifice
- legume; pulse; bean; pea (CL:顆|颗[ke1],粒[li4]); (old) stemmed cup or bowl
- to fall; to sink; (fig.) to degenerate
- roof tile; abbr. for 瓦特[wa3 te4]
- 散 sǎn: 散 san3: scattered; loose; to come loose; to fall apart; leisurely; powdered medicine散 sàn: 散 san4: to scatter; to break up (a meeting etc); to disperse; to disseminate; to dispel; (coll.) to sack
- to walk; to go; to run; to move (of vehicle); to visit; to leave; to go away; to die (euph.); from; through; away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走[che4 zou3]); to change (shape, form, meaning)
- to be frightened; fear; dread
- 室 shì: 室 shi4: room; work unit; grave; scabbard; family or clan; one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy室 Shì: 室 Shi4: surname Shi
- 侧 zhāi: 侧 zhai1: lean on one side侧 cè: 侧 ce4: the side; to incline towards; to lean; inclined; lateral; side
- body; life; oneself; personally; one's morality and conduct; the main part of a structure or body; pregnant; classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset; Kangxi radical 158
- (bound form) disease; ailment; (bound form) swift; (literary) to hate; to abhor
- ache; pain; sorrow; deeply; thoroughly
- red; scarlet; bare; naked
- 年 Nián: 年 Nian2: surname Nian年 nián: 年 nian2: year; CL:個|个[ge4]年 nián: 年 nian2: grain; harvest (old)
- no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- affair; business; matter; to be engaged in; to attend to; by all means
- rule by virtue; rule by setting virtuous example (Confucian ideal)
- five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la; five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: 喉音[hou2 yin1], 牙音[ya2 yin1], 舌音[she2 yin1], 齒音|齿音[chi3 yin1], 唇音[chun2 yin1]
- poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly
- matter; thing; item; work; affair; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1],回[hui2]
- 非 Fēi: 非 Fei1: abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africa非 fēi: 非 fei1: to not be; not; wrong; incorrect; non-; un-; in-; de-; to reproach; to blame; (coll.) to insist on; simply must
- 正 zhēng: 正 zheng1: first month of the lunar year正 zhèng: 正 zheng4: straight; upright; proper; main; principal; to correct; to rectify; exactly; just (at that time); right (in that place); (math.) positive
- device; tool; utensil; CL:臺|台[tai2]
- to annotate; to add a comment; explanatory note; annotation
- History of Song of the Southern Dynasties 南朝宋[Nan2 chao2 Song4] or Liu Song 劉宋|刘宋[Liu2 Song4], sixth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled by Shen Yue 沈約|沈约[Shen3 Yue1] in 488 during Liang of the Southern Dynasties 南朝梁[Nan2 chao2 Liang2], 100 scrolls; (not to be confused with 宋史[Song4 shi3])
- 乐 Lè: 乐 Le4: surname Le乐 yuè: 乐 yue4: music乐 lè: 乐 le4: happy; cheerful; to laugh乐 lào: 乐 lao4: used in place names乐 Yuè: 乐 Yue4: surname Yue
- 志 zhì: 志 zhi4: aspiration; ambition; the will志 zhì: 志 zhi4: sign; mark; to record; to write a footnote
- flute
- poetic essay; taxation; to bestow on; to endow with
- Shennong or Farmer God (c. 2000 BC), first of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝[Yan2 di4] and creator of agriculture
- to make; to build; to manufacture; to invent; to fabricate; to go to; party (in a lawsuit or legal agreement); crop; classifier for crops
- "Erya" or "The Ready Guide", first extant Chinese dictionary, c. 3rd century BC, with glossaries on classical texts
- to sprinkle; to spray; to spill; to shed
- 无 mó: 无 mo2: used in 南無|南无[na1 mo2]无 wú: 无 wu2: not to have; no; none; not; to lack; un-; -less
- History of the Former Han Dynasty, second of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed by Ban Gu 班固[Ban1 Gu4] in 82 during Eastern Han (later Han), 100 scrolls
- to record; to put down in writing
- 的 dì: 的 di4: (bound form) bull's-eye; target的 dī: 的 di1: a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士[di1 shi4])的 dí: 的 di2: really and truly的 de: 的 de5: of; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun); (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis); (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的[pi2 ge2 de5] "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的|跑堂儿的[pao3 tang2 r5 de5] "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的[xin1 de5] "new one"); also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs
- Records of the Grand Historian, by 司馬遷|司马迁[Si1 ma3 Qian1], first of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3]
- (of an emperor) to pay homage to Heaven at Mount Tai and to Earth at Mount Liangfu