- to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate; to set aside (money); to poke (the fire); to pluck (a string instrument); to turn round; classifier: group, batch
- for a particular person, occasion, purpose; focused on one thing; special; expert; particular (to sth); concentrated; specialized
- commentary and subcommentary (of a book)
- Kong Yingda (574-648), Confucian scholar
- to touch briefly; to tap; to mark with a dot; to check off (on a list); to order (food etc); to select; to mention; to bring up (a topic or person); to hint at; to imply; to administer (eye medicine etc) in drops; to light (a fire, a lamp etc); to ignite; to nod (one's head) in agreement; to beckon by moving (one's hand) up and down; point; dot; spot; speck; dot stroke in Chinese characters; (math.) decimal point; point in time or space; (after a number) o'clock; a small amount; a bit; (after a verb or adjective) a bit more; classifier for small amounts
- perfectly all right; without rhyme or reason
- geography
- textbook; CL:本[ben3]
- 水 Shǔi: 水 Shui3: surname Shui; Shui ethnic group水 shǔi: 水 shui3: water; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 會水|会水[hui4 shui3] and 水性[shui3 xing4]); (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy; (bound form) additional cost; extra income; classifier for washings of a garment
- divergent; side road
- brilliant and varied; (often in the combination 精彩紛呈|精彩纷呈[jing1 cai3 fen1 cheng2])
- ruler
- lit. fish and dragons mixed in together (idiom); fig. crooks mixed in with the honest folk
- current situation
- Ming Chengzu, temple name of third Ming Emperor Yongle 永樂|永乐[Yong3 le4]
- Zhu Di, personal name of third Ming Emperor Yongle 永樂|永乐[Yong3 le4]
- to wave; to brandish; to command; to conduct; to scatter; to disperse
- to revere as sole orthodoxy; to hold supremacy (of a religion, ideology, cultural norm, social group etc); to be dominant
- since then; henceforth
- reference book (such as dictionary, almanac, gazetteer etc)
- the "Little Red Book" of selected writings of Mao Zedong (refers to 毛主席語錄|毛主席语录[Mao2 Zhu3 xi2 Yu3 lu4])
- to annotate; to add a comment; explanatory note; annotation
- lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books
- blind; groundlessly; foolishly; to no purpose
- to knock against; to bump into; to run into; to meet by accident
- position; location; place; seat; classifier for people (honorific); classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes); (physics) potential
- safe; secure; safety; security
- 皆大欢喜 Jiē dà huān xǐ: 皆大欢喜 Jie1 da4 huan1 xi3: As You Like It, comedy by Shakespeare皆大欢喜 jiē dà huān xǐ: 皆大欢喜 jie1 da4 huan1 xi3: to everyone's delight and satisfaction
- to detest; to loathe; to abhor
- to suppress; to muzzle; to gag
- to make a fool out of; to fool; to dupe
- (archaic) the common people
- (idiom) one declines while the other flourishes; one loses out when the other one gains (as in a trade-off or a zero-sum game)
- to withstand; to resist; to stand off; antagonism; confrontation
- the whole journey; all the way; going the same way; going in the same direction; of the same kind
- to stagger along
- deficiency; lack; scarce; vacant post; to run short of
- Qin Shihuang (259-210 BC), the first emperor
- Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty (141-87 BC)