- to read out loud; (computing) to read (data); readout (of a scientific instrument)
- perception; perceptual; sensibility; sensitive; emotional; sentimental
- quiet and contented; indifferent to fame or gain
- (idiom) no need to tell others; let's keep this between ourselves; also pr. [bu4zu2 wei2 wai4ren2 dao4]
- graceful; fine; elegant
- (broadly) prose (as opposed to verse); (more narrowly) free-form literary prose, such as essays, sketches and reflections
- mist
- to return to one's true self; to regain the natural state
- long river; (fig.) long flow of time
- to defeat; to damage; to lose (to an opponent); to fail; to wither
- (reduplicated) whether... or...; never mind; fine (indicating acceptance or resignation)
- spray; ocean spray; spindrift; fig. happenings from one's life; CL:朵[duo3]
- many stars; a vast sky full of stars
- cotton wadding; fig. padding; long-winded
- like the clouds in the sky (i.e. numerous)
- the Chinese nation; the Chinese people (collective reference to all the ethnic groups in China)
- reason; intellect; rationality; rational
- modest; self-effacing; to make modest remarks
- to be chivalrous
- anti-war
- see 愛民區|爱民区[Ai4 min2 Qu1]
- tuition fee; tuition; CL:個|个[ge4]
- Second Sage, traditional title of Mencius 孟子[Meng4 zi3] in Confucian studies
- identity ≡ (math., logic); identical
- common ground
- ill-founded; groundless
- the earth quaked, the mountains shook (idiom); a tremendous battle
- Oedipus, hero of the tragedy Oedipus Rex by Athenian dramatist Sophocles
- to take a wife; to marry (a woman)
- A Mirror for the Wise Ruler (or Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government), a vast chronological general history, written by 司馬光|司马光[Si1 ma3 Guang1] Sima Guang (1019-1089) and collaborators during the Northern Song in 1084, covering the period 403 BC-959 AD, 294 scrolls
- internecine strife (idiom); fighting among oneself
- to signal the musicians (in Chinese opera, by prolonging a spoken word before attacking a song); (coll.) to challenge
- variegated; heterogeneous; to refute; to contradict; to ship by barge; a barge; a lighter (ship)
- lit. cuts and bruises all over (idiom); fig. totally refuted
- to overwhelm; to overpower; overwhelming
- fashionable; popular