- Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), founded by the Jurchen 女真[Nu:3 zhen1] people of North China, a precursor of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty
- apricot
- majestic; towering; imposing
- precipice; cliff; Taiwan pr. [yai2]
- street; road; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- to diminish; to demote; to reduce or devaluate; to disparage; to censure; to depreciate
- to sit cross-legged (as in the lotus position)
- roadside
- veteran
- to impair; to degrade; to decrease; to reduce; to weaken; to detract from; impairment (e.g. of financial assets)
- (idiom) to flaunt one's seniority; to rely on one's age or length of experience to control or belittle others
- arrogant; haughty
- stupidly obstinate
- 构 gòu: 构 gou4: to reach by stretching构 gòu: 构 gou4: to construct; to form; to make up; to compose; literary composition; paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera)
- 砌 qiè: 砌 qie4: used in 砌末[qie4 mo5]砌 qì: 砌 qi4: to build by laying bricks or stones
- picturesque charm; idyllic appeal; poetic grace
- a dispute; to wrangle
- to involve; to drag in
- physicist
- craftmanship; workmanship; handicraft; trade
- to blend; to integrate; to amalgamate; to fuse
- consciousness; state of mind; compos mentis
- gentle; urbane; refined
- 渠 jù: 渠 ju4: how can it be that?渠 Qú: 渠 Qu2: surname Qu渠 qú: 渠 qu2: (artificial) stream; canal; drain; ditch (CL:條|条[tiao2]); (literary) big; great; (dialect) he; she; him; her; (old) rim of a carriage wheel; felloe
- to massacre; to slaughter
- intelligence; intellect
- high building; multistory building; skyscraper; CL:座[zuo4]
- to visit a place for the memories; to pay homage to (the deceased)
- prosperity and decline (of a kingdom); rise and fall
- line; trace; mark; pattern; grain (of wood etc); to tattoo
- sth written or painted in one's own hand; (of a writer, calligrapher or painter) skill; style; hand; (fig.) style shown in spending money, handling business etc; scale
- egotistical; arrogant; brassy
- dross; dregs; rubbish; fig. useless residue
- curio; antique
- to convert to (a religion); to rely upon; refuge; mainstay
- inner meaning; implication; connotation
- to immerse oneself in; engrossed in sth; to lower the head (e.g. to avoid rain); countersunk (of screws, rivets etc)
- direction; points of the compass; bearing; position; azimuth
- to condense; to coagulate; coacervation (i.e. form tiny droplets); aggregation; coherent
- 散落 sǎn lùo: 散落 san3 luo4: to lie scattered (over an area); Taiwan pr. [san4 luo4]散落 sàn lùo: 散落 san4 luo4: to disperse; to fall scattered; to sprinkle
- to explore a mystery; to probe the unknown
- long distance; long-distance phone call (abbr. for 長途電話|长途电话[chang2 tu2 dian4 hua4]); long-distance coach (abbr. for 長途汽車|长途汽车[chang2 tu2 qi4 che1])
- to work; to operate; to revolve; to turn around
- auspicious; lucky