- 局 jú: 局 ju2: narrow局 jú: 局 ju2: office; situation; classifier for games: match, set, round etc局 jú: 局 ju2: cramped; narrow
- all sorts of feelings well up in one's heart
- to take (a ship, plane etc); to ride (in a train or other vehicle)
- partner; companion; comrade; associate; to accompany
- bilateral; both shores; both sides; both coasts; Taiwan and mainland
- cheerful and lighthearted; lively
- 摆 bǎi: 摆 bai3: to arrange; to exhibit; to move to and fro; a pendulum摆 bǎi: 摆 bai3: hem (at the bottom of a garment)
- barge
- a martial arts (wuxia) novel
- 习 xí: 习 xi2: (bound form) to practice; to study; habit; custom习 Xí: 习 Xi2: surname Xi
- to shed one's mortal body and exchange one's bones (idiom); born again Daoist; to turn over a new leaf; fig. to change wholly; to create from other material (story, artwork etc)
- to baffle; to confound; to stump
- to defeat; to beat
- roly-poly toy
- external force; pressure from outside
- 晃 huàng: 晃 huang4: to sway; to shake; to wander about晃 huǎng: 晃 huang3: to dazzle; to flash past
- to deviate; to diverge; to wander
- rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2]); (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde; (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
- code word
- see 湖南省[Hu2 nan2 Sheng3]
- 5th earthly branch: 7-9 a.m., 3rd solar month (5th April-4th May), year of the Dragon; ancient Chinese compass point: 120°
- 冀 Jì: 冀 Ji4: short name for Hebei 河北[He2 bei3]; surname Ji冀 jì: 冀 ji4: (literary) to hope for
- prosperous; henry (unit of inductance)
- to lead a team; to lead a group; group leader; (tourism) tour guide
- hidden anguish; secret suffering; (medicine) dull pain
- Dongting Lake in northeast Hunan province
- to dive (into water); (sports) diving; to commit suicide by jumping into water; (fig.) (of stock prices etc) to fall dramatically
- to grieve; to be broken-hearted; to feel deeply hurt
- Fan Zhongyan (989–1052), Song dynasty scholar and politician, author of On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记[Yue4 yang2 Lou2 Ji4]
- On Yueyang Tower (1046), essay by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹[Fan4 Zhong4 yan1]
- (idiom) to be successful in every endeavor
- to tower; to stand straight (of person's bearing)
- the bow or prow of a ship
- running water; (business) turnover
- hold of ship
- to call
- "Strategies of the Warring States", chronicle of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), possibly written by Su Qin 蘇秦|苏秦[Su1 Qin2]