- to prepare; to make ready; preparation; preparatory
- unidirectional
- lit. the cycle comes back to the start (idiom); to move in circles; the wheel comes full circle
- loom
- to spin (cotton or hemp etc); fine woven silk fabric
- to lead to
- to anticipate; to foresee
- motif (loanword); main idea; theme
- mournful (sound)
- bodhi (Sanskrit); enlightenment (Buddhism)
- Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, character with supernatural powers in the novel Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记[Xi1 you2 Ji4]; Son Goku, the main character in Dragon Ball 七龍珠|七龙珠[Qi1 long2 zhu1]
- to practice Daoism
- disaster; calamity
- predestined fate (Buddhism)
- Buddhism
- serious fire (in a city or a forest etc)
- to burn; to set on fire
- very close; no gap between them; continuously; unbroken; hard to separate; indistinguishable
- flood; flood damage
- to submerge; to drown; to flood; to drown out (also fig.)
- damaging storm; destructive typhoon
- to waft (through the air); to drift
- the Confucian classics; (Christianity, Judaism) the holy scriptures; CL:本[ben3],部[bu4]
- Noah
- phonetic fei or fi; (literary) rich with literary elegance; phi (Greek letter Φ, φ)
- ark
- to dig up; to appear in an excavation; unearthed; to come up out of the ground
- Sumer (Šumer), one of the early civilizations of the Ancient Near East
- document; official correspondence; secretary; secretariat
- academic circles; academia
- (geology) fault (CL:道[dao4]); (fig.) gap; rupture (in the transmission of some skill); (tomography) cross-sectional
- over and over again; again and again
- to inspect and verify; experimental verification; to validate (a theory); to authenticate
- collective (decision); joint (effort); a group; a team; en masse; as a group
- Himalayas
- ship ticket
- to give a discount
- for example
- space alien; extraterrestrial
- to issue; to publish