- to restrict; to agree to a contract; offer; bid
- 开通 kāi tōng: 开通 kai1 tong1: to open (a new road or railway line); to set up (a hotline); to launch (a service); to subscribe to (a members-only service)开通 kāi tong: 开通 kai1 tong5: open-minded
- old road; old way; old course (of a river)
- see 通許縣|通许县[Tong1 xu3 Xian4]
- name of a river in Henan; Henan
- 涡 gūo: 涡 guo1: name of a river涡 wō: 涡 wo1: eddy; whirlpool
- He river in Shandong
- to combine; to join; to link
- 划 huá: 划 hua2: to row; to paddle; profitable; worth (the effort); it pays (to do sth)划 huà: 划 hua4: to delimit; to transfer; to assign; to plan; to draw (a line); stroke of a Chinese character划 huá: 划 hua2: to cut; to slash; to scratch (cut into the surface of sth); to strike (a match)
- (measurement) (after a length) square (as in "10 feet square")
- 大学 Dà xué: 大学 Da4 xue2: the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1] in Confucianism大学 dà xué: 大学 da4 xue2: university; college; CL:所[suo3]
- Buddhist temple (loanword from Sanskrit "samgharama")
- the Tang dynasty (618-907)
- important political leader; government dignitary
- Tokyo, capital of Japan; Tonkin (northern Vietnam during the French colonial period)
- gifted scholar
- Xu Xiake (1587-1641), Ming dynasty travel writer and geographer, author of Xu Xiake's Travel Diaries 徐霞客遊記|徐霞客游记[Xu2 Xia2 ke4 You2 ji4]
- travel notes
- “Art of War”, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1], written by Sun Tzu 孫子|孙子[Sun1 zi3]
- Wuzi, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1], written by Wu Qi 吳起|吴起[Wu2 Qi3]
- The Book of Lord Shang, Legalist text of the 4th century BC
- “Six Secret Strategic Teachings”, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1], attributed to Jiang Ziya 姜子牙[Jiang1 Zi3 ya2]
- The Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon, medical text c. 300 BC
- natural science
- Baopuzi, collection of essays by Ge Hong 葛洪[Ge3 Hong2] on alchemy, immortality, legalism, society etc
- (bound form) rail; track; course; path
- tuition within family; education from father
- maxim
- Tripitaka, the three main types of text that collectively constitute the Buddhist canon of scriptures: sutras, commandments and commentaries