- very late at night
- conversely; in reverse order; in an opposite direction
- to partition; to divide up
- to appoint
- to be responsible for; to be in charge of; to bear responsibility for; conscientious
- to expand; to extend; to broaden (client base, outlook, territory etc); (computing) to scale up; to increase system capacity
- to listen to information; to get the news; to believe what one hears
- words; expression; what one says
- lit. military tactics on paper (idiom); fig. theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice; armchair strategist; idle theorizing; cf Zhao Kuo 趙括|赵括[Zhao4 Kuo4] leading an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰|长平之战[Chang2 ping2 zhi1 Zhan4] in 260 BC
- to sing; to call loudly; to chant
- to laugh happily; a belly-laugh
- to finish; to be over; whole; complete; entire
- 厉 Lì: 厉 Li4: surname Li厉 lì: 厉 li4: strict; severe
- to cry (of birds, animals and insects); to make a sound; to voice (one's gratitude, grievance etc)
- to have children; to raise or bring up; to educate
- divine by stalk
- 否 fǒu: 否 fou3: to negate; to deny; not否 pǐ: 否 pi3: clogged; evil
- to exploit; to make use of; to use; to take advantage of; to utilize
- visitor; guest; object (in grammar)
- exotic; foreign
- domestic; internal (to a country); civil
- (literary) to stay long in a place far from home; (literary) person who lives in an alien land
- 获 hùo: 获 huo4: (literary) to catch; to capture; (literary) to get; to obtain; to win获 hùo: 获 huo4: (bound form) to reap; to harvest
- 闲 xián: 闲 xian2: enclosure; unoccupied; leisure闲 xián: 闲 xian2: idle; unoccupied; leisure
- to provide guidance; to lecture sb; to upbraid; a talking-to; a bitter lesson; CL:番[fan1],頓|顿[dun4]
- to excuse sb; to exempt; to remove or dismiss from office; to avoid; to avert; to escape; to be prohibited
- to bend; to violate; to go against; ruthless and tyrannical
- to unstring a bow; to slacken; to relax; to loosen
- to bear (an expense, a responsibility etc); burden
- disgrace; dishonor; to insult; to bring disgrace or humiliation to; to be indebted to; self-deprecating; Taiwan pr. [ru4]
- high position; eminent status; top job; raised position; upper (limbs); a high (i.e. local maximum); high point on scale, high grade, temperature, latitude etc
- fast; rapid; quick; velocity
- to slander; to defame; to speak ill of
- to recruit; to provoke; to beckon; to incur; to infect; contagious; a move (chess); a maneuver; device; trick; to confess
- to fear
- work; worker; skill; profession; trade; craft; labor
- 饮 yǐn: 饮 yin3: to drink饮 yìn: 饮 yin4: to give (animals) water to drink
- daytime
- (literary) not yet divined; (of outcomes) uncertain; unknowable
- nobleman; person of noble character