- starting point; (fig.) basis; motive
- to be called; to be known as; to call it "..."
- 霹雳 Pī lì: 霹雳 Pi1 li4: Perak (state of Malaysia)霹雳 pī lì: 霹雳 pi1 li4: thunderclap; (slang) awesome; shocking; terrifying
- to examine; to investigate; to censor out; censorship
- selfless; impartial
- to hasten; to hurry; to walk fast; to approach; to tend towards; to converge
- (Buddhism) relic found in the cremated ashes of Buddhists (from Sanskrit "śarīra")
- position and wealth (idiom); rank, fame and fortune
- glory, splendor, wealth and rank (idiom); high position and great wealth
- to seize; to take away forcibly; to wrest control of; to compete or strive for; to force one's way through; to leave out; to lose
- will; resolution; aspiration
- to stand aloof; to be detached from; to transcend worldliness; untrammeled; unconventional
- unfavorable; disadvantageous; harmful; detrimental
- to turn; to go around a corner
- really isn't
- to isolate; isolated; unrelated; irrelevant
- trend; tendency
- dividing line
- to meet with; to encounter (esp. misfortune or hardship); an experience (esp. adverse)
- talus slide; to crumble (of scree slope); to collapse; landslide
- to accompany; to follow; to occur together with; concomitant
- to emerge to meet a historic destiny (idiom); to arise at an opportune time; able to take advantage of an opportunity; to rise to the occasion
- 脉 mài: 脉 mai4: arteries and veins; vein (on a leaf, insect wing etc)脉 mò: 脉 mo4: see 脈脈|脉脉[mo4 mo4]
- trend; tendency; orientation
- to issue; to publish
- to borrow; (used in combination with 給|给[gei3] or 出[chu1] etc) to lend; to make use of; to avail oneself of; (sometimes followed by 著|着[zhe5]) by; with
- subject matter
- theme; subject
- (literary) shackles
- cage; trap (e.g. basket, pit or snare for catching animals); fig. bonds (of wrong ideas); shackles (of past misconceptions); to trap; to shackle
- to yearn for; to look forward to
- free and easy (idiom); carefree; leisurely
- excessively; too
- 湛 Zhàn: 湛 Zhan4: surname Zhan湛 zhàn: 湛 zhan4: deep; clear (water)
- to receive in no small measure
- to hold; to seize; to catch; to apprehend; to take; (used in the same way as 把[ba3]: to mark the following noun as a direct object)
- to dismantle; to disassemble; to open up (sth sealed); to unpick
- mother; elderly female relative; origin; source; (of animals) female
- to disobey; to violate; to separate; to go against
- see 南京市[Nan2 jing1 Shi4]; Nanjing, capital of the Ming dynasty (1368–1421) and of the Republic of China (1927–1937 and 1946–1949)