- to carry out large scale construction
- official residence
- (idiom) to enjoy sth and never tire of it
- to extend (a building, an airport runway etc)
- office building; CL:座[zuo4],棟|栋[dong4]
- seething discontent (idiom); popular grievances boil over
- impressions; reflections; thoughts; CL:通[tong4],個|个[ge4]
- (idiom) (of a building etc) to rise out of the ground
- new residence; new home
- smile; smiling expression; CL:副[fu4]
- (literary) student; scholar
- to pursue one's studies; to attend school; to seek knowledge
- bedroom; CL:間|间[jian1]
- low; humble; plain; ugly; mean; vulgar
- to write an account (of events)
- original text
- turning point; breaking point
- to comprehend the truth; to become enlightened
- herald; precursor; harbinger
- 琢 zúo: 琢 zuo2: used in 琢磨[zuo2 mo5]; Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]琢 zhúo: 琢 zhuo2: to cut (gems)
- unpolished gem
- rope; CL:根[gen1]
- coarse rice; coarse (of food)
- obstinate; stubborn; pig-headed
- (bound form) vertebra
- hatchet
- 施 shī: 施 shi1: (bound form) to put into effect (regulations etc); to distribute (alms etc); to apply (fertilizer etc)施 Shī: 施 Shi1: surname Shi
- a platform (to speak)
- to entrust (to sb); to place (one's hope, energy etc) in; a thing in which one invests (one's hope, energy etc)
- to cross; to pass through; to ferry
- holy one; saint
- program bringing education to underdeveloped areas; to work in such a program
- teacher; CL:個|个[ge4]
- (cinema, literature etc) scene; trope; plot device; (songwriting) bridge
- (idiom) four-part structure of a composition: introduction, elucidation, pivot (shift in perspective), synthesis; (fig.) coherent structural progression in writing, narrative, or any unfolding process
- the classics; scriptures; classical; classic (example, case etc); typical
- young; childish; puerile
- to walk unsteadily; to stagger; to lurch; to hobble; to totter
- to learn to walk; (fig.) to learn sth, making unsteady progress; to get started on the learning curve
- administrative region
- to gather a crowd; to muster
- to lecture (on branch of learning)