- front; obverse side; right side; positive; direct; open
- (literary) and; as well as; (literary) up to; as far as (as in 暨今[ji4 jin1] "up to now")
- (literary) my late mother
- lifetime achievements
- disciple; follower; hanger-on (at an aristocrat's home)
- 艾 ài: 艾 ai4: Chinese mugwort (Artemisia); moxa; used in transliteration艾 ài: 艾 Ai4: surname Ai
- blade edge; sharp
- (old) privet (genus Ligustrum); (bound form) (old) wooden support placed at the ends of a wall during construction; (fig.) mainstay; pillar; backbone
- to comfort; to console; to stroke; to caress; an old term for province or provincial governor
- blood relation; kin; one's flesh and blood
- to close one's eyes; (fig.) to be contented at the time of one's death (Dying without closing one's eyes would signify having unresolved grievances.)
- to delay; to procrastinate
- 岳 Yuè: 岳 Yue4: surname Yue岳 yuè: 岳 yue4: wife's parents and paternal uncles岳 yuè: 岳 yue4: high mountain; highest peak of a mountain ridge
- man of sixty or seventy
- character; moral strength; integrity; (coll.) looks; appearance; bearing
- to bury (the dead); to inter
- see 東坡區|东坡区[Dong1 po1 Qu1]
- (literary) to hear; to listen
- small house connected to large one
- to take it up a notch; to bring it up a level
- to take (sth proffered)
- heavy burden; difficult task; great responsibility
- civil engineering
- sincerity; good faith
- to begin an undertaking; to start an enterprise; entrepreneurship
- fresh troops; (fig.) lifeblood; new force
- to contract for an entire project
- Jilin University
- school building
- to collect; to recruit