- spoken language; sound of speaking
- gas; air; smell; weather; to make angry; to annoy; to get angry; vital energy; qi
- good; very; very much
- to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion)
- essence; extract; vitality; energy; semen; sperm; mythical goblin spirit; highly perfected; elite; the pick of sth; proficient (refined ability); extremely (fine); selected rice (archaic)
- (bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself
- monster; devil
- to cut wood; tree-felling; lumbering
- 血 xuè: 血 xue4: blood; colloquial pr. [xie3]; CL:滴[di1],片[pian4]血 xiě: 血 xie3: see 血[xue4]
- to go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield; to go beyond; to exceed; (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result); classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
- to think; to believe (often with the implication that the belief is mistaken – unless referring to one's own current belief)
- 蛇 yí: 蛇 yi2: used in 委蛇[wei1 yi2]蛇 shé: 蛇 she2: snake; serpent; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- (of a ghost) to make strange things happen; to act up; to act behind the scenes; to make mischief; odd; to misbehave (euphemism for having sex)
- 人家 rén jia: 人家 ren2 jia5: other people; sb else; he, she or they; I, me (referring to oneself as "one" or "people")人家 rén jiā: 人家 ren2 jia1: household; dwelling; family; sb else's house; household business; house of woman's husband-to-be; CL:戶|户[hu4],家[jia1]
- 见 xiàn: 见 xian4: to appear; also written 現|现[xian4]见 jiàn: 见 jian4: to see; to meet; to appear (to be sth); to interview; opinion; view
- red; scarlet; bare; naked
- the countryside; wilderness areas
- Five Sacred Mountains of the Daoists, namely: Mt Tai 泰山[Tai4 Shan1] in Shandong, Mt Hua 華山|华山[Hua4 Shan1] in Shaanxi, Mt Heng 衡山[Heng2 Shan1] in Hunan, Mt Heng 恆山|恒山[Heng2 Shan1] in Shanxi, Mt Song 嵩山[Song1 Shan1] in Henan
- (archaic) the four rivers (Yangtze 長江|长江[Chang2 Jiang1], Yellow 黃河|黄河[Huang2 He2], Huai 淮河[Huai2 He2], Ji 濟水|济水[Ji3 Shui3]); (TCM) acupuncture point SJ-9
- 林 Lín: 林 Lin2: surname Lin; Japanese surname Hayashi林 lín: 林 lin2: (bound form) woods; forest; (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people); (bound form) a collection (of similar things)
- foot of a hill
- 京 jīng: 京 jing1: capital city of a country; big; algebraic term for a large number (old); artificial mound (old)京 Jīng: 京 Jing1: surname Jing; short name for Beijing 北京[Bei3 jing1]; Gin or Jing, ethnic minority of China, descendants of ethnic Vietnamese people living mainly in Guangxi; Kinh, the ethnic majority in Vietnam
- mound; tomb; hill; mountain
- 丘 qīu: 丘 qiu1: mound; hillock; grave; classifier for fields丘 Qīu: 丘 Qiu1: surname Qiu
- ruins; (literary) village; country fair
- abundant; mound
- to bank up with earth; to cultivate (lit. or fig.); to train (people)
- marsh; gathering place
- pool; pond; (of metals etc) luster; favor or beneficence; damp; moist
- a ferry; fog; flowing
- lake
- 陂 pí: 陂 pi2: used in 黃陂|黄陂[Huang2 pi2] (the name of a place in Hubei)陂 pō: 陂 po1: rugged; uneven陂 bēi: 陂 bei1: pool; pond; bank of a pond; mountain slope; Taiwan pr. [pi2]
- 渠 Qú: 渠 Qu2: surname Qu渠 jù: 渠 ju4: how can it be that?渠 qú: 渠 qu2: (artificial) stream; canal; drain; ditch (CL:條|条[tiao2]); (literary) big; great; (dialect) he; she; him; her; (old) rim of a carriage wheel; felloe
- ditch; gutter; groove; gully; ravine; CL:道[dao4]
- to ditch; a moat
- Eastern or later Han dynasty, 25-220
- scholar
- 应 Yīng: 应 Ying1: surname Ying; Taiwan pr. [Ying4]应 yīng: 应 ying1: to agree (to do sth); should; ought to; must; (legal) shall应 yìng: 应 ying4: to answer; to respond; to comply with; to deal or cope with
- 劭 shào: 劭 shao4: stimulate to effort劭 Shào: 劭 Shao4: surname Shao
- actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 的 dí: 的 di2: really and truly的 dì: 的 di4: (bound form) bull's-eye; target的 de: 的 de5: of; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun); (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis); (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的[pi2 ge2 de5] "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的|跑堂儿的[pao3 tang2 r5 de5] "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的[xin1 de5] "new one"); also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs的 dī: 的 di1: a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士[di1 shi4])
- ministry; department; section; part; division; troops; board; classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc
- extremely; pole (geography, physics); utmost; top
- a characteristic; a distinctive feature or quality
- to write; literary work; book; article; writings; CL:部[bu4]
- History of the Sui Dynasty, thirteenth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Wei Zheng 魏徵|魏征[Wei4 Zheng1] in 636 during Tang Dynasty, 85 scrolls
- religious text