- shop, firm, or brand of merchandise with a long-established reputation
- God; Heavens
- from house to house, one by one
- working procedure; process
- Chongwenmen gate in Beijing
- to give sincere advice (idiom); to exhort earnestly
- to walk quietly on tiptoe (idiom)
- sleep; to sleep; (computing) to enter sleep mode
- spirit trembling with excitement (idiom); in high spirits; lively and full of enthusiasm; full of energy; con brio
- to suss out; to figure out; to ascertain
- Heavenly province (epithet of Sichuan, esp. area around Chengdu); land of plenty
- 御 yù: 御 yu4: (bound form) imperial; royal; (literary) to drive (a carriage); (literary) to manage; to govern御 yù: 御 yu4: (bound form) to defend; to resist
- enamel; enamelware
- orchard
- Xuande Emperor, reign name of fifth Ming emperor Zhu Zhanji 朱瞻基[Zhu1 Zhan1 ji1] (1398-1435), reigned 1426-1436, temple name 明宣宗[Ming2 Xuan1 zong1]
- Chenghua, reign title of the eighth Ming emperor (reigned 1465-1487)
- chinaware; porcelain
- 明朝 Míng cháo: 明朝 Ming2 chao2: Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)明朝 míng zhāo: 明朝 ming2 zhao1: tomorrow morning; the following morning
- glaze (of porcelain)
- suburbs of Beijing
- to defeat; to crush (in battle); beaten; ruined; destroyed; in decline
- lit. yellow does not reach green (idiom); the yellow autumn crop does not last until the green spring crop; temporary deficit in manpower or resources; unable to make ends meet
- goods; merchandise; product; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to go bankrupt; to close down
- scattered
- workload; volume of work
- to be a tax on (one's mind); to bother; to trouble; to be concerned
- rough sketch (of a painting); (of an official) to approve a document by signing it
- outline; synopsis; notes
- to let off; to give out
- appropriate; suitable
- the most important; of chief importance
- gift; present
- to become rigid
- ballet (loanword)