- to infer
- in all cases; know
- sincere
- clauses and sub-clauses (in formal document); entry (in a dictionary, encyclopedia etc)
- (technical) manual; (book of) directions; synopsis (of a play or film); specification (patent); CL:本[ben3]
- first under heaven; number one in the country
- completely focused; free of distractions
- feudal times
- Qin Dynasty (221-207 BC)
- (zoology) segment (of the body of a worm, centipede etc); (fig.) a part of an integrated whole: aspect (of a project), element (of a policy), sector (of the economy), stage (of a process) etc
- single-minded; concentrated
- absent-minded; preoccupied; inattentive; with one's thoughts wandering
- as rivers Jing and Wei separate clearly (idiom); to be entirely different
- high-sounding; dignified; pompous (idiom)
- the whole course of an event from beginning to end; ins and outs; the fundamental and the incidental
- fifth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; fifth in order; letter "E" or Roman "V" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; penta
- age; seventh of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; seventh in order; letter "G" or Roman "VII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; ancient Chinese compass point: 255°; hepta
- I Ching; Book of Changes
- to be behind bars
- oracle script; oracle bone inscriptions (an early form of Chinese script)
- simple and convenient; handy
- strong; forceful
- to spread out bedding; bedcover
- in accordance with; to follow (the rules)
- rich merchant
- mound; heap; lump; classifier for small mounds (e.g. animal scat deposits); (of noodles, jiaozi 餃子|饺子[jiao3 zi5] etc) to stick together; to form a clump
- feces; excrement; a stool; (bound form) secretion (of the ear, eye etc)
- data
- fountainhead; well-spring; water source; fig. origin
- the Way of the Hegemon; abbr. for 霸王之道; despotic rule; rule by might; evil as opposed to the Way of the King 王道; overbearing; tyranny; (of liquor, medicine etc) strong; potent
- Confucian scholar (old)
- to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2])
- bitter; desperate
- to give special approval
- to burn down; to destroy with fire
- to add; to attach; to be close to; to be attached
- to compose; to constitute; compound; synthesis; mixture; synthetic
- the solid and broken lines of the eight trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], e.g. ☶