- childhood
- father's mother; paternal grandmother
- filial piety or obedience; mourning apparel
- sincere
- first; primary; initial; original; at first; initially; originally
- 启蒙 qǐ méng: 启蒙 qi3 meng2: to instruct the young启蒙 qǐ méng: 启蒙 qi3 meng2: to instruct the young; to initiate; to awake sb from ignorance; to free sb from prejudice or superstition; primer; enlightened; the Enlightenment; Western learning from the late Qing dynasty
- direct (opposite: indirect 間接|间接[jian4 jie1]); immediate; straightforward
- influence; effect; to influence; to affect (usually adversely); to disturb; CL:股[gu3]
- 据 jū: 据 ju1: used in 拮据[jie2 ju1]据 jù: 据 ju4: according to; to act in accordance with; to depend on; to seize; to occupy
- older female cousin through a female relative
- infantile; young
- 姚 Yáo: 姚 Yao2: surname Yao姚 yáo: 姚 yao2: handsome; good-looking
- beautiful; graceful
- 似 sì: 似 si4: to seem; to appear; to resemble; similar; -like; pseudo-; (more) than似 shì: 似 shi4: used in 似的[shi4 de5]
- by the time that
- fatigued; exhausted; poverty-stricken; in straitened circumstances
- to progress (or increase, change etc) day by day; more (or better etc) with each passing day
- appearance; facial features
- unexpectedly; to one's surprise; in spite of everything; in that crazy way; actually; to go as far as to
- to be precisely the same; to be no different
- heredity; to inherit (a trait); to pass on (to one's offspring)
- mysterious; mystery
- swiftly moving; fleet; to sway
- silent; still; quiet; to mourn in silence; to observe silence; (neologism, attested by 2022) to stay at home during a pandemic
- answer to a riddle
- on the body; at hand; among
- lit. looking for a fine horse using only a picture (idiom); fig. to do things along rigid, conventional lines; to try and find sth with the help of a clue
- character; intrinsic quality (of a person); quality (of a product or service, or as in "quality of life", "air quality" etc)
- shift in the trend of events; turnaround; plot shift in a book; turn in the conversation
- to select; to pick; choice; option; alternative
- to get; to obtain; to receive
- (idiom) to suddenly realize; to suddenly see the light
- to understand; to know; to comprehend
- to comprehend; to understand
- 伯 bǎi: 伯 bai3: one hundred (old)伯 bó: 伯 bo2: father's elder brother; senior; paternal elder uncle; eldest of brothers; respectful form of address; Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]
- head of grain; husk; tip; point; clever; gifted; outstanding
- see 福建省[Fu2 jian4 Sheng3]
- see 閩侯縣|闽侯县[Min3 hou4 Xian4]
- now; the present time; current; contemporary; this (day, year etc)
- see 福州市[Fu2 zhou1 Shi4]
- 氏 shì: 氏 shi4: (bound form) family name; surname (as in 王氏[Wang2 shi4] "the Wang clan"); (bound form) maiden name; née (as in 李王氏[Li3 Wang2 shi4] "Mrs. Li, née Wang"); (bound form) honorific suffix added to the surname or full name of a notable person, esp. historical or scholarly figures氏 zhī: 氏 zhi1: used in 月氏[Yue4 zhi1]; used in 閼氏|阏氏[yan1 zhi1]
- to pass on; to hand down; tradition has it that ...; according to legend
- source; origin; fountainhead
- final name of the Shang dynasty after their move to Yinxu 殷墟 in modern Henan province