- to blame; to reprove; to reprimand; to expel; to oust; to reconnoiter; (of territory) to expand; saline marsh
- Buddha's bones (as a sacred relic)
- written polemics
- to touch (physically, one's feelings etc); to touch on (a topic)
- see 昌黎縣|昌黎县[Chang1 li2 Xian4]
- Zhao Kuangyin, personal name of founding Song emperor Song Taizu 宋太祖 (927-976)
- to set up; to establish
- to decree
- successor
- general; military leader; fierce man
- reign name of Qing emperor (1861-1875)
- to sprout; to shoot; to bud
- faintly; indistinctly
- without the slightest hesitation
- aspiration; ambition; to volunteer
- to settle for second best; the next best thing
- sequence; order
- Mincho; Song font
- not a single one is dispensable; can't do without either
- historiography
- to put in time and energy; to concentrate one's efforts
- to sneer
- talent; aptitude
- start of literary work; opening song of ballad in Tanci style 彈詞|弹词[tan2 ci2]
- Confucian orthodoxy
- to split up; to divide; to break up; fission; schism
- lit. the flame of a burning piece of firewood passes on to the rest (idiom); fig. (of knowledge, skill etc) to be passed on from teachers to students, one generation to another
- (flaming) torch; CL:把[ba3]
- concentrating one's thoughts and efforts; single-minded; bent on; intently
- a hundred percent; to the letter; out-and-out
- to take as a guiding principle (idiom)
- extroverted (personality); (economics etc) export-oriented
- reserved (personality); introverted; (economics etc) domestic-oriented