- gentle feelings; tender sentiments
- middle (of a period of time); medium-term (plan, forecast etc)
- seventeen; 17
- to discuss; to bring up various ideas for discussion
- 蔚 Yù: 蔚 Yu4: surname Yu; place name蔚 wèi: 蔚 wei4: Artemisia japonica; luxuriant; resplendent; impressive
- 宗 zōng: 宗 zong1: school; sect; purpose; model; ancestor; clan; to take as one's model (in academic or artistic work); classifier for batches, items, cases (medical or legal), reservoirs宗 Zōng: 宗 Zong1: surname Zong
- bypath; trail; bribery as a means of achieving a goal; minor arts (Confucian reference to agriculture, medicine, divination, and other professions unworthy of a gentleman)
- it could even be said
- to evaluate (an individual); to appraise
- especially
- clever; wonderful
- 解 xiè: 解 xie4: acrobatic display (esp. on horseback) (old)解 Xiè: 解 Xie4: surname Xie解 jiě: 解 jie3: to divide; to break up; to split; to separate; to dissolve; to solve; to melt; to remove; to untie; to loosen; to open; to emancipate; to explain; to understand; to know; a solution; a dissection解 jiè: 解 jie4: to transport under guard
- 盖 Gě: 盖 Ge3: surname Ge盖 gài: 盖 gai4: lid; top; cover; canopy; to cover; to conceal; to build
- same type; category 1 (i.e. class A)
- pick up; to select
- 拾 shí: 拾 shi2: to pick up; to collate or arrange; ten (banker's anti-fraud numeral)拾 shè: 拾 she4: to ascend in light steps
- 闻 wén: 闻 wen2: to hear; news; well-known; famous; reputation; fame; to smell; to sniff at闻 Wén: 闻 Wen2: surname Wen
- lit. Ying writes a letter and Yan reads it; fig. to misinterpret the original meaning; to pile up errors; refers to the letter from capital 郢[Ying3] of 楚[Chu3] in which the inadvertent words "hold up the candle" are mistaken by the minister of 燕[Yan1] as "promote the wise"
- to trust; to believe in
- 郑 Zhèng: 郑 Zheng4: Zheng, a Zhou-dynasty state in the vicinity of present-day Xinzheng 新鄭|新郑[Xin1 zheng4], a county-level city in Henan; abbr. for Zhengzhou 鄭州|郑州[Zheng4 zhou1], the capital of Henan; surname Zheng郑 zhèng: 郑 zheng4: used in 鄭重|郑重[zheng4 zhong4]
- (main) hall; large room for a specific purpose; CL:間|间[jian1]; relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family; of the same clan; classifier for classes, lectures etc; classifier for sets of furniture
- 读 dòu: 读 dou4: comma; phrase marked by pause读 dú: 读 du2: to read out; to read aloud; to read; to attend (school); to study (a subject in school); to pronounce
- secretary (chief official of a branch of a socialist or communist party); clerk; scribe
- to approve of; to agree with (an opinion, action etc); to endorse
- to discuss; to comment; to criticize; to judge; to choose (by public appraisal)
- 颇 pō: 颇 po1: rather; quite; considerably; oblique; inclined; slanting; Taiwan pr. [po3]颇 Pō: 颇 Po1: surname Po; Taiwan pr. [Po3]
- near; close to; approximately
- novel; fiction; CL:本[ben3],部[bu4]
- Gong Zizhen (1792-1841), Chinese man of letters, calligrapher and poet
- 录 lù: 录 lu4: to carve wood录 lù: 录 lu4: diary; record; to hit; to copy录 Lù: 录 Lu4: surname Lu
- to be; thus; so; therefore; then; only; thereupon
- elementary school; primary school
- 别 bié: 别 bie2: to leave; to part (from); (literary) to differentiate; to distinguish; (dialect) to turn away; to turn aside; to avert (one's face, gaze etc); (bound form) other; another; different; don't ...!; to fasten with a pin or clip; to stick in; to insert (in order to hinder movement); (noun suffix) category (as in 性別|性别[xing4 bie2], 派別|派别[pai4 bie2])别 Bié: 别 Bie2: surname Bie别 biè: 别 bie4: to make sb change their ways, opinions etc
- interlinked; connected; communicating; in communication; accommodating
- 搜 sōu: 搜 sou1: to search搜 sōu: 搜 sou1: (bound form) to collect; to gather
- to record; to note; to memorize; to remember; mark; sign; classifier for blows, kicks, shots
- A New Account of the Tales of the World, collection of anecdotes, conversations, remarks etc of historic personalities, compiled and edited by Liu Yiqing 劉義慶|刘义庆[Liu2 Yi4 qing4]
- clear; distinct; obvious
- 鲁 Lǔ: 鲁 Lu3: surname Lu; Lu, an ancient state of China 魯國|鲁国[Lu3 guo2]; short name for Shandong 山東|山东[Shan1 dong1]鲁 lǔ: 鲁 lu3: (bound form) crass; stupid; rude; (used to represent the sounds of "ru", "lu" etc in loanwords)
- (bound form) right; right-hand side; (bound form) (politics) right of center; (bound form) (old) west; (literary) the right side as the side of precedence
- see 扶風縣|扶风县[Fu2 feng1 Xian4]
- 臧 zāng: 臧 zang1: good; right臧 Zāng: 臧 Zang1: surname Zang
- 英 Yīng: 英 Ying1: United Kingdom; British; England; English; abbr. for 英國|英国[Ying1 guo2]英 yīng: 英 ying1: hero; outstanding; excellent; (literary) flower; blossom
- bridge; CL:座[zuo4]