- can't help (doing sth)
- gentle; urbane; refined
- inner feelings
- legal principle; jurisprudence
- remote; hidden away; secluded; serene; peaceful; to imprison; in superstition indicates the underworld; ancient district spanning Liaonang and Hebei provinces
- trusted; intimate; (of the emperor) to visit
- (idiom) experienced and knowledgeable
- competitive; ambitious and aggressive; to desire to beat others
- to humiliate; humiliating
- gems of wisdom (idiom); priceless advice
- to complement; to make up for a deficiency
- to get angry
- making an all-out effort (idiom); to try one's heart out; to do one's utmost
- to entrust; to trust; to commission
- to reflect upon oneself; to examine one's conscience; to question oneself; to search one's soul
- guilty conscience; to feel a twinge of guilt
- grace; graceful
- to answer a question; question and answer
- branch and leaf
- 北海 Běi Hǎi: 北海 Bei3 Hai3: North Sea (in Europe); historical name for several bodies of water, including Lake Baikal 貝加爾湖|贝加尔湖[Bei4 jia1 er3 Hu2], Russia北海 Běi hǎi: 北海 Bei3 hai3: see 北海公園|北海公园[Bei3 hai3 Gong1 yuan2]; see 北海市[Bei3 hai3 Shi4]
- bright light
- (bound form) fear; dread; anxiety; trepidation
- as much as one likes
- (bound form) hedgehog
- cold and sluggish; chilly
- slug; used in 蜿蜒[wan1 yan2]
- to be killed for a righteous cause; to die a martyr
- natural
- beauty; disposition; looks; appearance
- human emotions; social relationship; friendship; favor; a good turn
- to submerge; to immerse; to sink; to keep down; to lower; to drop; deep; profound; heavy
- discourse; words; utterance; what one says; manner of speech
- A Mirror for the Wise Ruler (or Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government), a vast chronological general history, written by 司馬光|司马光[Si1 ma3 Guang1] Sima Guang (1019-1089) and collaborators during the Northern Song in 1084, covering the period 403 BC-959 AD, 294 scrolls