- Guozijian, the highest educational administrative body in imperial China, in some dynasties also functioning as the highest institution of academic research and learning (Imperial College, aka Imperial Academy)
- (bound form) ordinary; numerous; (bound form) pertaining to a concubine (contrasted with 嫡[di2])
- cheese (loanword); custard powder; (literary) man (laudatory); person of virtue
- (literary) hard; firm; strong; exactly; precisely; barely; only just; just; only a short while ago
- to get to know sb; to meet sb for the first time
- familiarity at first sight
- (literary) to be a good match
- pleased
- to stress; to emphasize; particular about sth; to strive for
- thirty; 30
- (bound form) general; non-specific; extensive; pan-; to flood; (literary) to float about; to be suffused with (a color, emotion, odor etc)
- 观 guān: 观 guan1: to look at; to watch; to observe; to behold; to advise; concept; point of view; outlook观 guàn: 观 guan4: Taoist monastery; palace gate watchtower; platform观 Guàn: 观 Guan4: surname Guan
- four-way; four-sided; in all directions; everywhere
- 益 yì: 益 yi4: benefit; profit; advantage; beneficial; to increase; to add; all the more益 Yì: 益 Yi4: surname Yi
- detailed; comprehensive
- (bound form) last day of a lunar month; (bound form) dark; gloomy; (literary) night
- to separate; to divide; to analyze
- to break a siege; to break out of an enclosure
- to initiate; to instigate; to introduce; to lead
- to lift; to raise (a lid etc); (of a storm) to surge; to stir up (waves etc); (fig.) to trigger; set off (a wave of popularity, a controversy etc)
- huge waves; (fig.) ruckus; controversy; sensation
- Confucius and Mencius
- feast
- storm; violent commotion; fig. crisis (e.g. revolution, uprising, financial crisis etc)
- about to; on the point of; soon
- to earn a living (esp. with negative)
- Zhengde Emperor, reign name of eleventh Ming emperor Zhu Houzhao 朱厚照[Zhu1 Hou4 zhao4] (1491-1521), reigned 1505-1521, temple name 明武宗[Ming2 Wu3 zong1]
- spoof (web-based genre in PRC, acquiring cult status from 2005, involving humorous, satirical or fantastical videos, photo collections, texts, poems etc)
- underground; subterranean; covert
- imperial edict
- called; named
- 将军 jiāng jūn: 将军 jiang1 jun1: general; high-ranking military officer; to check or checkmate; fig. to embarrass; to challenge; to put sb on the spot将军 Jiāng jūn: 将军 Jiang1 jun1: (common place name)
- imperial decree; purport; aim; purpose
- military affairs
- might; formidable
- important general; generalissimo
- to lead; to command; commander; officer
- to clean; to clean up; to eliminate; to wipe out
- to establish; to found; to set up; to build; to construct