- 阮 Ruǎn: 阮 Ruan3: surname Ruan; small state during the Shang Dynasty (1600–1046 BC) located in the southeast of present-day Gansu Province阮 ruǎn: 阮 ruan3: ruan, a four-stringed Chinese lute
- 籍 Jí: 籍 Ji2: surname Ji籍 jí: 籍 ji2: (bound form) book; record; register; (bound form) place of one's family or ancestral records; (bound form) membership
- mad; wild; violent
- 狷 juàn: 狷 juan4: impetuous; rash; upright (character)狷 juàn: 狷 juan4: nimble; impetuous; rash
- happy; joyful
- to question closely; to investigate in detail; to examine minutely; to get to the heart of the matter
- mature; ripe; to mature; to ripen; Taiwan pr. [cheng2shou2]
- no matter what or how; regardless of whether...
- IQ (intelligence quotient)
- height; level; (music) pitch; relative superiority; propriety; discretion (usu. in the negative, e.g. 不知高低[bu4 zhi1 gao1 di1]); no matter what; just; simply (will not ..., must ... etc); at long last
- more and more
- complicated; complex
- environment; circumstances; surroundings; CL:個|个[ge4]; ambient
- in the end; after all; eventually
- ultimate; final
- way; method; manner; mode; pattern (of behavior etc); CL:種|种[zhong3]
- always (previously)
- half
- Daoist School of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), based on the teachings of Laozi or Lao-tze 老子[Lao3 zi3] (c. 500 BC-) and Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3] (369-286 BC)
- superficial
- definition; to define
- distant; by far
- to summarize; to generalize; briefly; in broad outline
- meaningful content; implication; (semantics) connotation; inner qualities (of a person)
- one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); to cut a long story short; in a nutshell
- to rule; to govern; to manage; to control; to harness (a river); to treat (a disease); to wipe out (a pest); to punish; to research
- in confusion or disorder; in a confused state of mind; disorder; upheaval; riot; illicit sexual relations; to throw into disorder; to mix up; indiscriminate; random; arbitrary
- 中庸 Zhōng yōng: 中庸 Zhong1 yong1: the Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1]中庸 zhōng yōng: 中庸 zhong1 yong1: golden mean (Confucianism); (literary) (of person) mediocre; ordinary
- though; although
- 提 dī: 提 di1: used in 提防[di1 fang5] and 提溜[di1 liu5]提 tí: 提 ti2: to carry (hanging down from the hand); to lift; to put forward; to mention; to raise (an issue); upwards character stroke; lifting brush stroke (in painting); scoop for measuring liquid
- small number; few; minority
- to realize; to be aware of; to feel that; to be conscious of (sth relating to oneself); responsible; predisposed to do the right thing; considerate of others
- spontaneous
- to have a fluent command of (idiom)
- (great) majority
- constrained; restricted; forced to; under pressure to do sth
- power; might
- have no choice or option but to; cannot but; have to; can't help it; can't avoid
- to put out; to issue
- to pretend to be (asleep etc); to disguise oneself as; pretense; disguise; (military) to camouflage; camouflage
- to compromise; to reach terms; a compromise
- in case (sth happens); if; once (sth happens, then...); when; in a short time; in one day
- to oppress; to repress; to constrict; oppression; stress (physics)
- easy; straightforward; likely; liable to; apt to
- extreme
- tide of thought; way of thinking characteristic of a historical period; Zeitgeist
- lasting until; up till (the present)
- to apply to; to put into (practice etc); to put to (a test, a vote etc)