- (literary) to kill oneself; to commit suicide
- to warn; to admonish
- to express a different view; to take a different position
- to give to; to provide to; to bring to; to take to
- (Confucianism) rites and music (the means of regulating society)
- pleasant to listen to
- to speak frankly
- hierarchy
- close and distant (relatives)
- paternal line; patrilineal
- younger male patrilineal cousin
- maternal; matriarchal
- older male cousin through a female relative
- to originate from
- to consult for reference; see also; please refer to
- to create (an original work); (of a work) original; original creation; original work
- rule; regulation
- monograph; specialized text
- psychology
- very likely; prone to
- to look upon as; to regard as
- clan elder
- a hundred or so
- head of a household; family head; patriarch; parent or guardian of a child
- to be called; to be known as
- to be called; to be known as
- 大夫 dài fu: 大夫 dai4 fu5: doctor; physician大夫 dà fū: 大夫 da4 fu1: senior official (in imperial China)
- 法制 fǎ zhì: 法制 fa3 zhi4: legal system and institutions法制 Fǎ zhì: 法制 Fa3 zhi4: made in France
- 妻 qī: 妻 qi1: (bound form) wife妻 qì: 妻 qi4: to marry off (a daughter)
- blood relationship; lineage; parentage
- order of feudal nobility, namely: Duke 公[gong1], Marquis 侯[hou2], Count 伯[bo2], Viscount 子[zi3], Baron 男[nan2]
- second son
- son born of a concubine
- to appoint; to assign; to indicate clearly and with certainty; designated
- monarch
- to heap earth (to close a tomb); a mound (covering a tomb)
- to found a country; nation-building; the foundation of PRC by Mao Zedong in 1949
- to hog; to keep everything for oneself
- to divide and confer (property on one's descendants)
- to divide (into subgroups etc); to break down (into subcategories, subprocesses etc)
- to divide (and give to others)