- to propose; to suggest; to recommend; proposal; suggestion; recommendation (CL:點|点[dian3])
- to give an order; to issue an order
- to burn; to set on fire
- apart from; other than; except for; external; outside of; on the other side of; beyond
- doctor (as an academic degree); (old) person specialized in a skill or trade; (old) court academician
- to be in charge of; assignment
- the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经[Shi1 jing1] and the Book of History 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1]
- many schools of thought; many people or households
- to set a time limit; time limit; deadline
- to hand over
- to destroy (or be destroyed) by fire
- to become extinct; to die out; to lose (sth abstract) completely; to exterminate
- to adopt or carry out (measures, policies, course of action); to take
- 头 tóu: 头 tou2: head; hair style; the top; end; beginning or end; a stub; remnant; chief; boss; side; aspect; first; leading; classifier for pigs or livestock; CL:個|个[ge4]头 tou: 头 tou5: suffix for nouns
- 黔 Qián: 黔 Qian2: short name for Guizhou 貴州|贵州[Gui4 zhou1]黔 qián: 黔 qian2: (literary) black; to blacken
- free; no charge; at no cost
- to conscript; to second (personnel); to requisition (supplies etc)
- the Great Wall
- Epang Palace, palace complex in western Xi'an built by Qin Shihuang 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2]; also pr. [E1fang2 Gong1]
- Mt Li near Xi'an with the tomb of the First Emperor
- grave; tomb
- physical labor
- forced labor; corvee
- to garrison; to defend (a frontier); soldier garrisoned at a frontier
- tyranny; despotic rule
- to harm (sb's health) with narcotics etc; to poison (people's minds); to corrupt; pernicious influence
- periphery; rim; perimeter; surroundings; (computing) (attributive) peripheral; merch (abbr. for 周邊商品|周边商品[zhou1 bian1 shang1 pin3])
- element; factor; CL:個|个[ge4]
- official name of a nation (includes dynastic names of China: 漢|汉[Han4], 唐[Tang2] etc)
- usually; in many cases; more often than not
- the whole world at peace (idiom); peace and prosperity
- thorough; penetrating; to pervade; to pass through
- temple name of a deceased Chinese emperor
- the absolute beginning
- to correct; to amend; to put right; correction; CL:個|个[ge4]
- temple; ancestral shrine
- to esteem; to think highly of; to accord importance to; to revere
- name of job in Imperial bureaucracy; official position
- rule; regulation