- 乘 shèng: 乘 sheng4: (archaic) four horse military chariot; (archaic) four; generic term for history books乘 chéng: 乘 cheng2: to ride; to mount; to make use of; to avail oneself of; to take advantage of; to multiply (math.); Buddhist sect or creed乘 Chéng: 乘 Cheng2: surname Cheng
- 云 yún: 云 yun2: (classical) to say云 Yún: 云 Yun2: surname Yun; short name for Yunnan 雲南|云南[Yun2 nan2]云 yún: 云 yun2: cloud; CL:朵[duo3]
- to be born; arrival of newborn; birth (of a savior or religious leader)
- CE (Common Era); Christian Era; AD (Anno Domini)
- Chenghua, reign title of the eighth Ming emperor (reigned 1465-1487)
- eight
- sage; the Sage (i.e. Confucius); (old) (respectful way of addressing a monarch) your sagacious majesty; (religion) saint
- to descend; to arrive; to come
- see 浙江省[Zhe4 jiang1 Sheng3]
- to belong to; to fall under (a category)
- see 紹興市|绍兴市[Shao4 xing1 Shi4]
- seat of government; government repository (archive); official residence; mansion; presidential palace; (honorific) Your home; prefecture (from Tang to Qing times)
- 苗 miáo: 苗 miao2: sprout苗 Miáo: 苗 Miao2: surname Miao; Miao ethnic group
- 古 Gǔ: 古 Gu3: surname Gu古 gǔ: 古 gu3: ancient; old; paleo-
- to become known far and wide (idiom); famous
- to manufacture; to make
- 基地 Jī dì: 基地 Ji1 di4: al-Qaeda基地 jī dì: 基地 ji1 di4: base (of operations, industrial, military, research etc)
- to push out; to release; to launch; to publish; to recommend
- 过 guo: 过 guo5: (experienced action marker)过 Gūo: 过 Guo1: surname Guo过 gùo: 过 guo4: to cross; to go over; to pass (time); to celebrate (a holiday); to live; to get along; excessively; too-
- Yu Shinan (558-638), politician of Sui and early Tang periods, poet and calligrapher, one of Four Great Calligraphers of early Tang 唐初四大家[Tang2 chu1 Si4 Da4 jia1]
- Tang dynasty (618–907)
- bard; poet
- thinker
- banker
- to wait for; to await; by the time; when; till; and so on; etc.; et al.; (bound form) class; rank; grade; (bound form) equal to; same as; (used to end an enumeration); (literary) (plural suffix attached to a personal pronoun or noun)
- 现代 Xiàn dài: 现代 Xian4 dai4: Hyundai, South Korean company现代 xiàn dài: 现代 xian4 dai4: modern times; modern age; modern era
- personage; celebrity
- relatively; opposite; to resist; to oppose; relative; vis-a-vis; counterpart
- rigorous; strict; careful; (of writing) well organized; meticulous
- history book
- History of the Ming Dynasty, twenty fourth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], compiled under Zhang Tingyu 張廷玉|张廷玉[Zhang1 Ting2 yu4] in 1739 during the Qing Dynasty, 332 scrolls
- to take the lead; to be the first; to set an example
- to publicize; to advertise; to spread far and wide
- ma; mom; mother
- pregnant; to have conceived; gestation; pregnancy
- not yet; still not
- to give birth to a baby; (of animals) to give birth to young
- father; also pr. [fu4 qin5]; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 华 Huà: 华 Hua4: Mount Hua 華山|华山[Hua4 Shan1] in Shaanxi; surname Hua华 huá: 华 hua2: magnificent; splendid; flowery华 huā: 华 hua1: flower华 Huá: 华 Hua2: abbr. for China
- to feel; to sense; to perceive
- strange; odd; to marvel; to be baffled
- father's mother; paternal grandmother
- 岑 Cén: 岑 Cen2: surname Cen岑 cén: 岑 cen2: small hill