- palace courtyard
- (archaic) embroidery using black and blue thread
- to reply; to answer; reply; answer
- to create; to bring about; to produce; to set (a record)
- happy; joyful
- a skill; mastery of a trade; by oneself; without outside help
- Sima Qian (145-86 BC), Han Dynasty historian, author of Records of the Grand Historian 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4], known as the father of Chinese historiography
- Zhang Qian (-114 BC), Han dynasty explorer of 2nd century BC
- not necessarily; maybe not
- to answer; to reply; Reply to: (in email header)
- satisfying; satisfactory
- ingenious; clever; ingenuity; artifice
- vague; unclear; ambiguous
- psychology; mentality
- to eliminate; to remove; except for; apart from
- apparently right but actually wrong; specious (idiom)
- to pace back and forth; to dither; to hesitate; (of sales figures etc) to fluctuate
- unexpected (idiom); surprising
- to find
- 中庸 zhōng yōng: 中庸 zhong1 yong1: golden mean (Confucianism); (literary) (of person) mediocre; ordinary中庸 Zhōng yōng: 中庸 Zhong1 yong1: the Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1]
- white or gray hair; CL:根[gen1]
- (literary) small boat; skiff
- then; after that; afterwards
- to write a book advancing one's theory (idiom)
- mixed in as part of a community; hiding one's identity; occupying a position while not deserving it
- 遇 Yù: 遇 Yu4: surname Yu遇 yù: 遇 yu4: (bound form) to encounter; to happen upon; to meet unplanned; (bound form) to treat; to receive
- each other; one another
- happy; joyous; delighted; to like; to be fond of
- out of step with current thinking; outmoded; inappropriate for the occasion
- highly intelligent; brilliant
- Zhang Shizhao (1881-1973), revolutionary journalist in Shanghai, then established writer
- good aspects; strong points
- to be good at; to be adept at
- all things
- as if melting
- in short; in a word; in brief
- 秘 bì: 秘 bi4: see 秘魯|秘鲁[Bi4 lu3]秘 mì: 秘 mi4: secret; secretary
- -ism; only
- not at all; simply (can) not
- to scratch
- to itch; to tickle