- 混 hùn: 混 hun4: to mix; to mingle; muddled; to drift along; to muddle along; to pass for; to get along with sb; thoughtless; reckless混 hún: 混 hun2: Taiwan pr. [hun4]
- blurred (landscape etc); low (spirits); in a slump (economy)
- to drop into; to fall into
- the river of love; a stumbling block on the path to enlightenment (Buddhism)
- good opinion; favorable impression
- difference; discrepancy
- unmarried
- rare; infrequent
- grade; rank; status
- older sister
- to visit a grave
- alongside; shoulder to shoulder; side by side; abreast
- to chat; to gossip
- (of news) to spread; to get around
- grand; magnificent; stately; majestic appearance
- Grand Scribe, the title by which Sima Qian 司馬遷|司马迁[Si1 ma3 Qian1] refers to himself in Records of the Historian 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4]
- 川 chuān: 川 chuan1: (bound form) river; creek; plain; an area of level country川 Chuān: 川 Chuan1: short name for Sichuan 四川[Si4 chuan1]
- to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon
- Beihai Park, in Beijing to the northwest of the Forbidden City
- to take a walk; to go for a walk
- 罢 bà: 罢 ba4: to stop; to cease; to dismiss; to suspend; to quit; to finish罢 ba: 罢 ba5: (final particle, same as 吧)
- back door; back gate; (fig.) back-door influence; under-the-table dealings; anus; (computing) backdoor
- beggar
- to beg; to go begging
- to wander about destitute; to be stranded
- earnest; sincere
- one's close relatives
- purse; wallet
- all; without exception
- to contemplate; to ponder; contemplation; meditation
- late (with a task etc); slow
- lowly; humble
- high-ranking official
- pretty woman
- to have bad luck; to be out of luck
- older and younger; seniority
- noble and lowly; high versus low social hierarchy of ruler to people, father to son, husband to wife in Confucianism
- to be intensely proud of sth (idiom)
- good and evil; good versus evil
- poor and rich