- hard; strong; solid; sure; assuredly; undoubtedly; of course; indeed; admittedly
- (bound form) to confer; to give; (bound form) to teach; to instruct; (literary) to appoint
- national politics; archaic rank, "Minister of State"; common given name
- soldier; servant; to finish; to die; finally; at last; pawn in Chinese chess
- to bury (the dead); to inter
- the dead; the deceased
- good; very; very much
- official in feudal court; subject
- (literary) chassis of a carriage (contrasted with the canopy 堪[kan1]); (literary) (fig.) the earth (while the carriage canopy is a metaphor for heaven); land; territory; (literary) carriage; (literary) sedan chair; palanquin; (bound form) the multitudes; the people; the public
- 奄 yǎn: 奄 yan3: suddenly; abruptly; hastily; to cover; to surround奄 Yǎn: 奄 Yan3: surname Yan奄 yān: 奄 yan1: to castrate; to delay
- breath; news; interest (on an investment or loan); to cease; to stop; to rest; Taiwan pr. [xi2]
- 仲 Zhòng: 仲 Zhong4: surname Zhong仲 zhòng: 仲 zhong4: second month of a season; middle; intermediate; second amongst brothers
- to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned
- inside; among; in the midst of (doing sth); during
- 哀 āi: 哀 Ai1: Ai (c. 2000 BC), sixth of legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God, also known as Li 釐|厘[Li2]哀 āi: 哀 ai1: (bound form) sorrow; grief; pity; (bound form) to grieve for; to pity; to lament; to condole
- song (CL:首[shou3],支[zhi1]); (bound form) to sing
- Shijing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經|五经[Wu3 jing1]
- wind; news; style; custom; manner; CL:陣|阵[zhen4],絲|丝[si1]
- honorary posthumous name; posthumous title
- name and reality; how sth is portrayed and what it is actually like
- opposite; contrary
- (classical) barely; just; just now
- 十一 Shí Yī: 十一 Shi2 Yi1: PRC National Day (October 1st)十一 shí yī: 十一 shi2 yi1: eleven; 11
- 度 dù: 度 du4: to pass; to spend (time); measure; limit; extent; degree of intensity; degree (angles, temperature etc); kilowatt-hour; classifier for events and occurrences度 dúo: 度 duo2: to estimate; Taiwan pr. [duo4]
- 德 Dé: 德 De2: Germany; German; abbr. for 德國|德国[De2 guo2]德 dé: 德 de2: virtue; goodness; morality; ethics; kindness; favor; character; kind
- to admire
- false reputation
- to think over; to consider; consideration
- comprehensive; composite; synthesized; mixed; to sum up; to integrate; to synthesize
- strength
- deer
- 地 de: 地 de5: -ly; structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct地 dì: 地 di4: earth; ground; field; place; land; CL:片[pian4]
- quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊|被旅游[bei4 lu : 3 you2] to "go on a trip")
- to capture (enemy property or personnel); capture (physics: absorption of subatomic particle by an atom or nucleus)
- clear; vast and deep; classifier for a body of clear water
- 水 shǔi: 水 shui3: water; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 會水|会水[hui4 shui3] and 水性[shui3 xing4]); (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy; (bound form) additional cost; extra income; classifier for washings of a garment水 Shǔi: 水 Shui3: surname Shui; Shui ethnic group
- to fight; fight; war; battle
- to break out; to erupt; to explode; to burst out
- to lose a war
- to sustain injuries; wounded (in an accident etc); harmed
- not long (after); before too long; soon; soon after
- cause; reason; because