- to fight over; to contest; to vie over
- to hold up (as an model); to hold in esteem; to revere; to advocate
- trickery; tactics
- to regard as important; to value
- Confucian school, founded by Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3] (551-479 BC) and Mencius 孟子[Meng4 zi3] (c. 372-c. 289 BC)
- ancient books or records
- although; even though (often used correlatively with 可是[ke3 shi4] or 但是[dan4 shi4] etc)
- in deep water; difficult situation
- to abandon; to discard; to cast away
- but; yet; however; still; merely; only; just
- still (as before); had better; unexpectedly; or
- to discard; to abandon (old ways); to invalidate
- ambition; goal; ideal; aspiration
- to create; to produce; to write; a creative work; a creation
- one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
- to loathe; to hate; disgusted with sth
- dirty; muddy; foul (sewer)
- the ways of the world; the morals of the time
- politics; political
- country; nation; state
- confused; chaotic; disorderly
- sovereign king
- calamity
- affair; matter; thing; business; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- (idiom) one after another; in quick succession
- to believe; to be convinced; to accept as true
- 正当 zhèng dàng: 正当 zheng4 dang4: honest; reasonable; fair; sensible正当 zhèng dāng: 正当 zheng4 dang1: timely; just (when needed)
- very; greatly
- riches and honor
- to make visible; to reveal; prominent; conspicuous; (prefix) phanero-
- afterward; later; subsequently; following that
- to sneer at sb; to ridicule
- to promote to a higher position
- surely; certainly; definitely; fixed; settled; a certain ...; a given ...
- 会 hùi: 会 hui4: can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet; to get together; meeting; gathering; (suffix) union; group; association; (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [hui3])会 kuài: 会 kuai4: (bound form) to reckon accounts
- to be destroyed; to become extinct; to perish; to die out; to destroy; to exterminate
- to demote; to denounce
- the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period 春秋[Chun1 qiu1]
- disciple
- (bound form) shame; humiliation; disgrace
- to discuss; to talk about
- achievement; outstanding work; glorious deed
- hanger-on; visitor (in a nobleman's house)
- to enter; to join; to go into
- prosperous; thriving; to prosper; to flourish
- to decline; to wane; to decay; to deteriorate
- Lu, vassal state at the time of the Zhou Dynasty 周朝|周朝[Zhou1 chao2], located in the southwest of present-day Shandong 山東|山东[Shan1 dong1], birthplace of Confucius