- fortune telling based on the subject's face
- desperately serious; disastrous; extremely; exceedingly
- to know; to become aware of; also pr. [zhi1dao5]
- ministry; department; section; part; division; troops; board; classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc
- imperial edict; heavenly book (superstition); obscure or illegible writing; double dutch
- although; even though
- senior; of a senior generation; to honor; to respect; honorific; classifier for cannons and statues; ancient wine vessel
- group; crowd; flock, herd, pack etc
- 经 jīng: 经 jing1: classics; sacred book; scripture; to pass through; to undergo; to bear; to endure; warp (textile); longitude; menstruation; channel (TCM); abbr. for economics 經濟|经济[jing1 ji4]经 Jīng: 经 Jing1: surname Jing
- head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc
- profound mystery
- style
- (for) a lifetime
- profound; abstruse; recondite; profoundly
- difficult to understand; cryptic
- to attract; to appeal to; to fascinate
- reader
- eyeball; (fig.) attention
- 属 zhǔ: 属 zhu3: to join together; to fix one's attention on; to concentrate on属 shǔ: 属 shu3: category; genus (taxonomy); family members; dependents; to belong to; subordinate to; affiliated with; be born in the year of (one of the 12 animals); to be; to prove to be; to constitute
- fortune-telling; to tell fortune
- it is said that; reportedly
- to meet; to run into; to come across
- target; object; partner; boyfriend; girlfriend; CL:個|个[ge4]
- (idiom) world-shaking
- to found a state; to open a closed country
- Liu Bowen (1311-1375), general under the first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋[Zhu1 Yuan2 zhang1], with a reputation as a military genius, also called Liu Ji 劉基|刘基[Liu2 Ji1]
- style of conversation
- impressive; out of the ordinary
- personality traits; temperament; disposition; aura; air; feel; vibe; refinement; sophistication; class
- out of the ordinary; unusually (good, talented etc)
- to maintain (that sth is true); to determine (a fact); determination (of an amount); of the firm opinion; to believe firmly; to set one's mind on; to identify with
- at once; on the spot
- to make friends with
- (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items
- to immediately put into practice something one has just learned (idiom)
- 端详 duān xiang: 端详 duan1 xiang5: to look over carefully; to scrutinize端详 duān xiáng: 端详 duan1 xiang2: full details; full particulars
- half of the day; a long time; quite a while; midair; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to have confidence in oneself; self-confidence
- to admire; to praise; to eulogize
- 苟 gǒu: 苟 gou3: (literary) if indeed; (bound form) careless; negligent; (bound form) temporarily苟 Gǒu: 苟 Gou3: surname Gou
- riches and honor