- to try (to see what it's like or whether one can do it)
- Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- local; this locality
- food
- (try to) overcome (hardships etc); to conquer; to put up with; to endure
- stink; stench; stinky; smelly; (fig.) disgusting; repugnant
- When you enter a village, follow the local customs (idiom); do as the natives do; When in Rome, do as the Romans do
- to give birth to a child or children
- medical treatment
- Western medicine; a doctor trained in Western medicine
- Western medicine
- the populace; the masses; the common people
- to divide people into groups, teams, squads etc
- 周日 Zhōu rì: 周日 Zhou1 ri4: Sunday周日 zhōu rì: 周日 zhou1 ri4: (dialect) weekday
- to have a holiday or vacation
- ordinary; common; usually; ordinarily
- to supervise; to manage; to administer; management; administration; CL:個|个[ge4]
- source; precursor; forerunner
- experienced scholar; old expert in the field
- ceremony; celebration
- heart; mind; ambition; aspiration
- magnanimous; broad and level
- readily; flatly (deny, admit and so on); a mouthful; a bite
- fluent
- Chinese language
- ripe; mature; thoroughly cooked; done; familiar; acquainted; experienced; skilled; (of sleep etc) deep; profound; also pr. [shou2]
- to count as number one (idiom); second to none; outstanding
- educationalist
- sinologist; scholar of Chinese
- see 山西省[Shan1 xi1 Sheng3]
- hired (for employment); invited (e.g. to lecture); engaged (for a task); (in olden times) betrothal gift from the groom's family
- University of Oxford
- sinology; Chinese studies (in foreign schools); Han Learning, a Qing dynasty movement aiming at a philological appraisal of the Classics
- Jacob (name); James (name)
- Thomas (male name)
- clear; bright
- lit. like thunder piercing the ear; a well-known reputation (idiom)