- the West; the Occident; Western countries
- vertical; north-south (Taiwan pr. [zong1]); from front to back; longitudinal; lengthwise (Taiwan pr. [zong1]); military unit corresponding to an army corps (Taiwan pr. [zong1]); (bound form) to release (a captive); to indulge; to leap up; (literary) even if
- different; distinct; not the same; not alike
- in the style of annals; chronological history, the regular form of the Chinese dynastic histories
- history book
- to pass on; to hand down; tradition has it that ...; according to legend
- Lu, vassal state at the time of the Zhou Dynasty 周朝|周朝[Zhou1 chao2], located in the southwest of present-day Shandong 山東|山东[Shan1 dong1], birthplace of Confucius
- scribe; court recorder; historian; historiographer
- to weave; to plait; to organize; to group; to arrange; to edit; to compile; to write; to compose; to fabricate; to make up
- to revise
- to write an account (of events)
- CE (Common Era); Christian Era; AD (Anno Domini)
- fourteen; 14
- common; general; to share; together; total; altogether; abbr. for 共產黨|共产党[Gong4 chan3 dang3], Communist party
- history; CL:門|门[men2],段[duan4]
- ram (male sheep)
- grain; corn
- surname Zou; vassal state during the Zhou Dynasty (1046–256 BC) in the southeast of Shandong
- 夹 jiá: 夹 jia2: double-layered (quilt); lined (garment)夹 jiā: 夹 jia1: to press from either side; to place in between; to sandwich; to carry sth under armpit; wedged between; between; to intersperse; to mix; to mingle; clip; folder; Taiwan pr. [jia2]夹 gā: 夹 ga1: used in 夾肢窩|夹肢窝[ga1 zhi5 wo1]夹 jià: 夹 jia4: Taiwan pr. used in 夾生|夹生[jia1 sheng1] and 夾竹桃|夹竹桃[jia1 zhu2 tao2]
- Shijing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經|五经[Wu3 jing1]
- Western Zhou (1027-771 BC)
- early years
- mid- (e.g. mid-century); middle period
- poem; CL:本[ben3],首[shou3],段[duan4]
- zero; nought; zero sign; fractional; fragmentary; odd (of numbers); (placed between two numbers to indicate a smaller quantity followed by a larger one); fraction; (in mathematics) remainder (after division); extra; to wither and fall; to wither
- afterwards; later; newly arrived
- 毛 Máo: 毛 Mao2: surname Mao毛 máo: 毛 mao2: hair; feather; down; wool; mildew; mold; coarse or semifinished; young; raw; careless; unthinking; nervous; scared; (of currency) to devalue or depreciate; classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角[jiao3] , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分[fen1])
- another name for Book of Changes (I Ching) 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]
- symbol; emblem; to symbolize; to signify; to represent
- day; sky; heaven
- 雷 Léi: 雷 Lei2: surname Lei雷 léi: 雷 lei2: thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 地雷[di4 lei2] land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb)
- 水 shǔi: 水 shui3: water; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 會水|会水[hui4 shui3] and 水性[shui3 xing4]); (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy; (bound form) additional cost; extra income; classifier for washings of a garment水 Shǔi: 水 Shui3: surname Shui; Shui ethnic group
- 火 hǔo: 火 huo3: fire; urgent; ammunition; fiery or flaming; internal heat (Chinese medicine); hot (popular); classifier for military units (old); Kangxi radical 86火 Hǔo: 火 Huo3: surname Huo
- the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]; gossip; gossipy
- outer appearance; form; shape; formality; CL:個|个[ge4]
- (intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation
- I Ching; Book of Changes
- sect; school (group of followers of a particular doctrine)
- opinions differ (idiom)
- to mix; to mingle
- to obscure; to confuse; to mix up; to blur; to mislead