- heart; mind; intention; center; core; CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4]
- true or bogus; authenticity
- to dispute
- 春秋 Chūn qīu: 春秋 Chun1 qiu1: Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC); Spring and Autumn Annals, chronicle of Lu State (722-481 BC)春秋 chūn qīu: 春秋 chun1 qiu1: spring and autumn; four seasons; year; a person's age; annals (used in book titles)
- to divide sth into (parts); to subdivide
- 诗 shī: 诗 shi1: poem; CL:首[shou3]; poetry; verse诗 Shī: 诗 Shi1: abbr. for Shijing 詩經|诗经[Shi1 jing1], the Book of Songs
- the Hundred Schools of Thought, the various schools of thought and their exponents during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC)
- numerous; confused; disorderly
- to end; to die
- to die; death
- subtle; profound
- to decline; to wane; weakened; enfeebled; in decline
- finger; to point at or to; to indicate or refer to; to depend on; to count on; (of hair) to stand on end
- student; schoolchild
- position; location; place; seat; classifier for people (honorific); classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes); (physics) potential
- great person of the past; venerable forebear; the great and the good
- Records of the Grand Historian, by 司馬遷|司马迁[Si1 ma3 Qian1], first of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3]
- family influential for generations; aristocratic family
- 教 jiào: 教 jiao4: (bound form) to teach; to instruct; a religion; to cause (sb to do sth); to tell (sb to do sth)教 jiāo: 教 jiao1: to teach; to instruct教 Jiào: 教 Jiao4: surname Jiao
- disciple; follower
- body; life; oneself; personally; one's morality and conduct; the main part of a structure or body; pregnant; classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset; Kangxi radical 158
- the Confucian Six Arts, namely: rites or etiquette 禮|礼[li3] (禮儀|礼仪[li3 yi2]), music 樂|乐[yue3] (音樂|音乐[yin1 yue4]), archery 射[she4] (射箭[she4 jian4]), charioteering 御[yu4] (駕車|驾车[jia4 che1]), calligraphy or literacy 書|书[shu1] (識字|识字[shi2 zi4]), mathematics or reckoning 數|数[shu4] (計算|计算[ji4 suan4]); another name for the Six Classics 六經|六经[Liu4 jing1]
- to lift; to hold up; to cite; to enumerate; to act; to raise; to choose; to elect; act; move; deed
- the correct path; the right way (Buddhism)
- here
- to have sth to do with; to relate to; related to; to concern; concerning
- the essentials
- to go against; to be contrary to; to violate
- to depart from; to deviate from; deviation
- Su Qin (340-284 BC), political strategist of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家[Zong4 heng2 jia1] during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
- to lobby; to campaign; to promote (an idea, a product); (old) to visit various rulers and promote one's political ideas (in the Warring States period)
- dukes or princes who rule a part of the country under the emperor; local rulers
- to combine; to join; unite; alliance
- to resist; to repel; to refuse
- surname Qin; Qin dynasty (221–207 BC) of the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2]; short name for 陝西|陕西[Shan3 xi1]
- to be located at; to be situated in
- north and south; north to south
- 合 gě: 合 ge3: 100 ml; one-tenth of a peck; measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗合 hé: 合 he2: to close; to join; to fit; to be equal to; whole; together; round (in battle); conjunction (astronomy); 1st note of pentatonic scale
- Vertical Alliance, clique of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家[Zong4 heng2 jia1] during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)
- Zhang Yi (-309 BC), political strategist of the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家[Zong4 heng2 jia1] during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
- the state of Qin, one of the seven states of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
- to form an alliance; to ally oneself with; allied with; aligned; to bond with
- to attack; to assault; to go on the offensive; attack; assault; offense (sports)