- to accept; to receive
- law and order; rules and discipline
- former custom; old ways
- bottom of the heart (fig.)
- (to stand or move) sideways
- is not; has never been; never occurring; unprecedented
- to serve as; to act as; to play the role of
- see 張掖市|张掖市[Zhang1 ye4 Shi4]
- nationality; country-specific (history, report etc)
- Ejin Banner in Alxa League 阿拉善盟[A1 la1 shan4 Meng2], Inner Mongolia (formerly in Gansu 1969-1979)
- tomb; mausoleum
- see 棗陽市|枣阳市[Zao3 yang2 Shi4]
- one's appearance; one's aspect; looks; features
- knowledgeable; erudite; erudition; proficient
- to promote; to reinstate (in a position or job)
- lung; CL:個|个[ge4]
- dazzling; brilliant
- to urge; to prompt; to spur on; to order sb about
- strategy; tactics; crafty; adroit
- imperial clan; member of the imperial clan; clansman; ancestral shrine
- tiny; negligible
- predecessor; forebears; the person facing you
- honor and glory; glorious
- post; position; job; duties
- local guide; tour escort
- horsewhip
- reins
- 差事 chà shì: 差事 cha4 shi4: poor; not up to standard差事 chāi shi: 差事 chai1 shi5: errand; assignment; job; commission; CL:件[jian4]; see also 差使[chai1 shi5]
- vacancy
- to overlook; to miss; to omit
- to be well-mannered
- preferably; one would prefer to...(or not to...); would rather; (would) be better to; (to pick) the lesser of two evils
- drain between fields, irrigation
- classifier for fields; unit of area equal to one fifteenth of a hectare
- when?