- family property; patrimony
- generous; ample
- thereupon; as a result; consequently; thus; hence
- deliberately; on purpose
- year (e.g. school year, fiscal year); annual
- to screen; to discriminate; to reexamine a case; screening (of applicants etc)
- to take an exam; exam; CL:次[ci4]
- officialdom; bureaucracy
- unwritten (rule)
- lit. compass and set square; fig. established standard; rule; customs; practices; fig. upright and honest; well-behaved
- an examiner (for tests, interviews etc); (old) imperial examination official
- to know; to be aware
- intent; intention; to intend
- to depart; to leave
- the top and bottom of sth; the full vertical extent of sth; from top to bottom; to go up and down; before and after (as in 上下文[shang4 xia4 wen2] "context"); (used after a quantity) approximately; ... or so; (in a social hierarchy) the high and the low; seniors and juniors (as in 上下和睦[shang4 xia4 he2 mu4] "harmony between superiors and subordinates"); all members of a group (as in 舉國上下|举国上下[ju3 guo2 shang4 xia4] "the entire nation"); relative superiority (as in 不相上下[bu4 xiang1 shang4 xia4] "evenly matched")
- to bribe; to get (luggage) ready; to put in order; to organize things; (baseball) RBI (run batted in)
- apart from; other than; except for; external; outside of; on the other side of; beyond
- to put; to place; to release; to free; to let go; to let out; to set off (fireworks)
- 官 Guān: 官 Guan1: surname Guan官 guān: 官 guan1: government official; governmental; official; public; organ of the body; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 封 Fēng: 封 Feng1: surname Feng封 fēng: 封 feng1: to confer; to grant; to bestow a title; to seal; classifier for sealed objects, esp. letters
- see 浙江省[Zhe4 jiang1 Sheng3]
- see 海寧市|海宁市[Hai3 ning2 Shi4]
- county head magistrate (old)
- immediately; presently; following which
- accompanied by one's dependents; encumbered by wife and children
- to go down south
- 脉 mò: 脉 mo4: see 脈脈|脉脉[mo4 mo4]脉 mài: 脉 mai4: arteries and veins; vein (on a leaf, insect wing etc)
- spiritual influence (of mountains etc); cleverness; ingeniousness
- to turn to (sth else); to switch to
- region of China immediately south of the lower Yangtze River, including Shanghai and adjoining parts of Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi and Zhejiang; see 江南省[Jiang1 nan2 Sheng3]; see 江南區|江南区[Jiang1 nan2 Qu1]
- well-known scenic spot
- soon; in a moment; to look on as sth happens
- one who is successful in one's studies, can become an official (idiom)
- 严 Yán: 严 Yan2: surname Yan严 yán: 严 yan2: tight (closely sealed); stern; strict; rigorous; severe; father
- subject; course; CL:門|门[men2]; class; lesson; CL:堂[tang2],節|节[jie2]; to levy; tax; form of divination
- after that; then
- (idiom) (of a son) to carry on one's father's business or profession
- to keep; to maintain; to preserve
- hackneyed; well-worn (phrase etc); same old story; stereotypical fashion
- to recur (of events, esp. adverse ones); to repeat (a performance)
- if; in case; in the event that
- background; backdrop; context; (fig.) powerful backer
- the final years of the Qing dynasty 清朝[Qing1 chao2]; late Qing