- silk
- quicksand; (patisserie) (usu. attributive) semi-liquid filling (typically custard); lava
- (often used in book or chapter titles) general introduction; overview
- double; repeated twice
- many schools of thought; many people or households
- refined (of writing)
- to explain; to release; Buddha (abbr. for 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼[Shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2]); Buddhism
- different tribe
- external; foreign; outside
- in a nutshell; to put it briefly
- to bear in mind
- (idiom) to integrate knowledge from various sources into a deep and coherent understanding of a subject
- follower; adherent; following
- a pile of old books
- to fall; to drop; to land (of projectile)
- the Yellow Springs; the underworld of Chinese mythology; the equivalent of Hades or Hell
- to come to blows; to paw; to grope; to get fresh
- to take money or valuables out of storage; to recover; to ship goods; to extract (chemicals from solution)
- to be studying (at a school or research institute)
- oracle script; oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)
- elderly loyalist of a former dynasty; former official who remains loyal after a dynastic change
- method; way; approach
- silk
- to examine; to investigate; carefully; to try (in court)
- an expedition, esp. military; march to remote regions
- far away; a distant location
- to take a photograph; photography; to shoot (a movie)
- to gather; to collect; to harvest
- sufficient; full; to fill; to serve as; to act as; to act falsely as; to pose as
- a frame; a circle; set pattern; convention; restriction
- to draw up; to draft; to formulate
- to stress; to emphasize; particular about sth; to strive for
- pronunciation; reading (of a Chinese character)
- usage
- (of a story etc) to unfold; to play out; to develop (a technique etc); to enact; (logic) to deduce; to infer