- the mind; the brain
- 圣 kū: 圣 ku1: (literary) to dig with persistent effort (e.g. to gather wild vegetables)圣 shèng: 圣 sheng4: (bound form) peerless (in wisdom, moral virtue, skill etc); (bound form) peerless individual; paragon (sage, saint, emperor, master of a skill etc); (bound form) holy; sacred
- (literary) lost or nearly lost body of knowledge; (literary) consummate mastery (in a field); (wuxia) supreme technique
- 太平 Tài píng: 太平 Tai4 ping2: see 太平區|太平区[Tai4 ping2 Qu1]太平 tài píng: 太平 tai4 ping2: peace and security
- dilemma; quandary; to face a difficult choice
- going or staying
- to select; to make one's choice; to decide what to accept and what to reject
- light; gentle; relaxed; effortless; uncomplicated; to relax; to take things less seriously
- subject (of a talk or conversation); topic
- love letter
- to say candidly; to acknowledge frankly
- the Twenty-Four Histories (25 or 26 in modern editions), collection of books on Chinese dynastic history from 3000 BC till 17th century; fig. a long and complicated story
- tedious
- biography; CL:篇[pian1],部[bu4]
- interesting; fascinating; amusing
- historian
- to pass over; to skip
- experience; to go through; to experience
- political history
- affair; matter; thing; business; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- Buddhist nun
- Buddhist monk
- extraordinary splendor
- Portugal
- inconstant in love; fickle
- to shed tears
- to conclude; to determine; to come to a judgment
- to offer (tribute); to present respectfully (to superior, ancestor, deity etc); to esteem; to revere; to believe in (a religion); to wait upon; to accept orders (from superior)
- 直 Zhí: 直 Zhi2: surname Zhi; Zhi (c. 2000 BC), fifth of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God直 zhí: 直 zhi2: straight; to straighten; fair and reasonable; frank; straightforward; (indicates continuing motion or action); vertical; vertical downward stroke in Chinese characters
- war; conflict; CL:場|场[chang2],次[ci4]
- life span; life expectancy; lifetime (of a machine)
- to be irrelevant; to have nothing to do with
- at least; (to say the) least
- fun; interest; delight; taste; liking; preference
- 印 yìn: 印 yin4: to print; to mark; to engrave; a seal; a print; a stamp; a mark; a trace; image印 Yìn: 印 Yin4: surname Yin; abbr. for 印度[Yin4 du4], India
- to take in; income; revenue; CL:筆|笔[bi3],個|个[ge4]
- to intertwine; to band together (with); to link up (with); twisted; tangled; confused; to be at a loss; to struggle (mentally) with (sth); to overthink; to feel conflicted
- (idiom) (it) goes without saying; can well be imagined
- surname Jiang; Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石[Jiang3 Jie4 shi2]