- (bound form) hungry; starving; (bound form) dispirited; (literary) (of fish) putrid
- ashamed
- ashamed
- to fall downward in a scattered, lightly sprinkled manner (as light, petals, leaves etc); (literary) carefree and unrestrained; natural and elegant
- mercy
- to help sb in trouble; aid; assistance
- disaster area; stricken region
- to donate money; to contribute funds; donation; contribution (of money)
- tenderness; warmth; warmhearted; softhearted
- likeness of a god or Buddha; (old) portrait of the deceased
- pure and holy
- little imagined; scarcely realized
- 太虚 tài xū: 太虚 tai4 xu1: great emptiness; the void; heaven; the skies; universe; cosmos; original essence of the cosmos太虚 Tài xū: 太虚 Tai4 xu1: Taixu (famed Buddhist monk, 1890-1947)
- long-winded; garrulous; to talk endlessly without getting to the point
- to endure; to put up with; to exercise patience
- for a long time
- 厚薄 hòu báo: 厚薄 hou4 bao2: thickness; also pr. [hou4 bo2]厚薄 hòu bó: 厚薄 hou4 bo2: to favor one and discriminate against the other (abbr. for 厚此薄彼[hou4 ci3 bo2 bi3])
- needless
- to avoid stating openly (esp. sensitive or unpleasant matters, usu. in the negative, as in 不諱言|不讳言[bu4 hui4 yan2] "to state frankly")
- to be born; (fig.) to develop out of sth else (of ideas, stories, political systems etc); (fig.) to shed one's body (to be reborn); bodiless (e.g. lacquerware)
- the Qin (221-207 BC) and Han (206 BC-220 AD) dynasties
- the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) dynasties
- to distort; to misrepresent
- to tamper with; to falsify
- the teaching of Confucius and Mencius
- (literary) firewood; fuel; (bound form) salary
- see 泰州市[Tai4 zhou1 Shi4]
- a magnificent and unprecedented event (idiom)
- (literary) commoner; unlearned person (in former times, one who had not obtained an official degree); (old) temporary conscript
- to keep in mind constantly (idiom)
- to follow; to accompany
- shrink or flinch from no difficulty or danger; make light of difficulties and dangers
- to join a guru for instruction
- to hide (as an undercover agent); an insider (in a gang of thieves); a mole
- extremely tragic (idiom); with unprecedented brutality
- cruelty; torture
- (greatly respected) teacher
- to run; to rush about; to be on the go
- to suppress; to quell (a disturbance); repression
- to see the light again (idiom); delivered from oppression
- malaria