- common people
- (literary) my deceased grandfather; (literary) ancestors
- 辛 Xīn: 辛 Xin1: surname Xin辛 xīn: 辛 xin1: (of taste) hot or pungent; hard; laborious; suffering; eighth in order; eighth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; letter "H" or Roman "VIII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; ancient Chinese compass point: 285°; octa
- to melt; to thaw; to blend; to merge; to be in harmony
- to rebel; to rise in revolt
- not completely; endlessly
- twenty-seventh year G3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2010 or 2070
- 回 Húi: 回 Hui2: Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims)回 húi: 回 hui2: to go back; to return; to turn back; to turn around; to reply; to answer; classifier for literary divisions (acts of a play, sections or chapters of a classic book); classifier for occurrences or times回 húi: 回 hui2: to curve; to return; to revolve
- to attach most importance to
- 西北 xī běi: 西北 xi1 bei3: northwest西北 Xī běi: 西北 Xi1 bei3: Northwest China (Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang)
- ethnic minority
- Classic of Mountain and Sea, probably compiled c. 500 BC-200 BC, contains wide range of geography, mythology, witchcraft, popular customs etc
- Bamboo Annals, early chronicle of Chinese ancient history, written c. 300 BC
- to dig up; to appear in an excavation; unearthed; to come up out of the ground
- tortoise shells and animal bones used for divination in the Shang Dynasty (c. 16th to 11th century BC); oracle bones
- oracle inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC) on tortoiseshells or animal bones
- original works; original text; original author
- to soak; to be stained; stain; floodwater
- underarm; armpit
- rib; CL:根[gen1]
- justice; righteousness; just; righteous
- younger sister
- to give birth; to reproduce; to produce; product; resource; estate; property
- offspring; descendant; progeny
- flea
- Ban Gu (32-92), Eastern Han dynasty historian, wrote the Dynastic History of Western Han 漢書|汉书
- a man; a male
- to dub with a nice-sounding appellation; fanciful moniker
- succession (to a title); to inherit; continuing (a tradition); posterity
- King Cheng of Zhou (1055-1021 BC), reigned 1042-1021 BC as the 2nd king of Western Zhou 西周[Xi1 Zhou1], son of King Wu of Zhou 周武王[Zhou1 Wu3 wang2]
- to nominate as a worthy candidate; to recommend; to elect; to choose; (weightlifting) to (clean and) press
- barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless
- (bound form) birds; fowl; (literary) birds and animals
- brother-in-law; husband's younger brother
- 牟 móu: 牟 mou2: barley; to moo; to seek or obtain牟 Móu: 牟 Mou2: surname Mou牟 Mù: 牟 Mu4: see 牟平[Mu4 ping2]