- fief
- material culture
- music; CL:張|张[zhang1],曲[qu3],段[duan4]
- musical note; tone
- musical scale
- 徵 zhēng: 徵 zheng1: to invite; to recruit; to levy (taxes); to draft (troops); phenomenon; symptom; characteristic sign (used as proof); evidence徵 zhǐ: 徵 zhi3: 4th note in the ancient Chinese pentatonic scale 五音[wu3 yin1], corresponding to sol
- the five Confucian relationships (ruler-subject, father-son, brother-brother, husband-wife, friend-friend)
- dance (performance art); dancing
- anesthesia; to anesthetize; (fig.) to corrupt (sb's mind); to enervate; to numb the mind (to escape from harsh reality)
- closely guarded; strongly fortified; sharply divided
- peaceful coexistence of nations, societies etc
- of one mind (idiom)
- key point; crux; (finance) basis point
- to take a lot of trouble (idiom); painstaking; at the cost of a lot of effort
- to have disregard for human life (idiom)
- willfully slaughter the innocent (idiom)
- 延 yán: 延 yan2: to prolong; to extend; to delay延 Yán: 延 Yan2: surname Yan
- blessing; the throne
- 晋 Jìn: 晋 Jin4: surname Jin; the Jin Dynasties (265–420); Western Jin 西晉|西晋[Xi1 Jin4] (265–316), Eastern Jin 東晉|东晋[Dong1 Jin4] (317–420) and Later Jin Dynasty (936–946); short name for Shanxi 山西[Shan1 xi1]晋 jìn: 晋 jin4: to move forward; to promote; to advance
- real (people); living (artist); while still alive (e.g. skinned alive)
- King Zhuang of Chu (reigned 613-591 BC), one of the Five Hegemons 春秋五霸
- leadership authority
- the Nine Tripod Cauldrons, symbol of state power, dating back to the Xia Dynasty
- weight; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to plan to seize power of the whole country (idiom)
- irrevocable; the die is cast
- to stand out clearly; to make prominent
- to have money and time; to be part of the leisure class; the idle rich
- to engage in wars of aggression at will (idiom); militaristic; bellicose
- Lord Menchang of Qi, Chancellor of Qi and of Wei during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
- successive years; over many years
- campaign; expedition
- first class; grade A
- territory; domain; estate; (old) fief
- to differ to some extent (idiom)
- property right
- to collect rent
- flowing; shifting; fluidity; mobility; liquidity (of funds)