- fusion; to combine as one
- many schools of thought; many people or households
- gone forever
- Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals, ideological tract by Han dynasty political philosopher Dong Zhongshu 董仲舒[Dong3 Zhong4 shu1]
- to glue; glue; gum; rubber
- to glue together
- inferior; shoddy; lousy; lame
- jigsaw puzzle; to do a jigsaw puzzle
- sense of security
- slave; fig. flunkey
- empire; imperial
- lofty (as of mountain)
- between the words and the lines (idiom); implied meaning; connotations
- classic books in Confucianism; scriptures; sutras
- to edit; to modify; to alter (written material)
- to pause at appropriate points in reading aloud unpunctuated writing; to punctuate
- to simplify
- Sima Yi (179-251), warlord under Cao Cao and subsequently founder of the Jin dynasty
- Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei 曹魏, father of Emperor Cao Pi 曹丕; the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义
- Liu Biao (142-208), warlord
- ancestors; forebears
- gem
- (old, now used figuratively) official call to arms; official denunciation
- resolutely; firmly; ferociously; ruthlessly
- false reputation
- Dong Zhuo (-192), top general of late Han, usurped power in 189, murdered empress dowager and child emperor, killed in 192 by Lü Bu 呂布|吕布
- mountain; hill; lofty mountain
- ravaged by successive wars; war-torn; war-ridden
- to fall; to drop; to decline; to deteriorate; to go downhill
- Wei and Jin philosophical school amalgamating Daoist and Confucian ideals; translation of metaphysics (also translated 形而上學|形而上学)
- light intellectual conversation