- (idiom) anxious; in turmoil
- fellow townsman; fellow villager; sb from the same hometown
- to search (a place, a database, online etc); to search for (sth)
- (of a path etc) narrow; (of a living space etc) cramped; (of a way of thinking, a definition etc) narrow; limited
- recently; soon; nearest
- to call to pay one's respect; to call on
- 本事 běn shi: 本事 ben3 shi5: ability; skill本事 běn shì: 本事 ben3 shi4: source material; original story
- pleasant to listen to
- to serve (in some capacity); to work for
- an extravagant hope; to have excessive expectations
- to conspire
- gold lettering; gold characters
- East Asia
- 大陆 dà lù: 大陆 da4 lu4: continent; mainland; CL:塊|块[kuai4]大陆 Dà lù: 大陆 Da4 lu4: mainland China (reference to the PRC)
- (geology) landform; geomorphology
- complicated
- diverse; diversity; manifold
- instinct
- to describe; to depict; to portray
- 片 piàn: 片 pian4: thin piece; flake; a slice; film; TV play; to slice; to carve thin; partial; incomplete; one-sided; classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water; classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc; used with numeral 一[yi1]: classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc; Kangxi radical 91片 piān: 片 pian1: disk; sheet
- carrier (chemistry); vector (epidemiology); vehicle or medium
- territory
- rivers, lakes and oceans; bodies of water
- (old) territories beyond the Great Wall
- to be pregnant; to produce offspring; to nurture (a development, school of thought, artwork etc); fig. replete with (culture etc)
- active; lively; excited; to enliven; to brighten up
- Zhengguo canal, a 150 km long irrigation canal in Shaanxi built in 264 BC
- century
- hydraulic engineering
- lit. the Big Dipper 北斗星[Bei3 dou3 xing1] has turned and the stars have moved; time flies; also written 星移斗轉|星移斗转[xing1 yi2 Dou3 zhuan3]
- lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom); fig. the transformations of the world
- to look as if; to seem
- quietly; noiselessly
- river; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- geography
- valuable; precious; to value; to treasure; to set store by
- not only