- Washington (name); George Washington (1732-1799), first US president; Washington, US State; Washington, D.C. (US federal capital)
- simple; not complicated
- long (tradition, history etc)
- countless; innumerable
- turmoil; upheaval; unrest
- lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom); fig. land swarming with disaster victims; starving people fill the land
- 易 yì: 易 yi4: easy; amiable; to change; to exchange; prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible"易 Yì: 易 Yi4: surname Yi; I Ching; Book of Changes (abbr. for 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1])
- 食 shí: 食 shi2: to eat; food; animal feed; eclipse食 sì: 食 si4: to feed (a person or animal)
- reeking of blood; bloody (events)
- flavor; taste; (fig.) feeling (of ...); sense (of ...); hint (of ...); (fig.) interest; delight; (dialect) smell; odor
- to pass through; to penetrate; by means of; via
- paper
- to smell; to sniff sth out; to perceive by smelling
- lit. so horrible that one cannot bear to look (idiom); fig. miserable; horrendous; atrocious
- (literary) dog; Kangxi radical 94
- (bound form) right; right-hand side; (bound form) (politics) right of center; (bound form) (old) west; (literary) the right side as the side of precedence
- to slander; to defame; to speak ill of
- tranquil and even-tempered (idiom); calmly and without stress
- to look upon; to regard
- scholar
- effective; in effect; valid
- to cultivate; to breed; to foster; to nurture; to educate; to groom (for a position); education; fostering; culture (biology)
- morale
- to be unwilling to pass on one's responsibilities to others
- proof; certificate; identification; testimonial; CL:個|个[ge4]; to prove; to testify; to confirm the truth of
- preceding period; early stage
- highly effective; fruitful
- to act on; to affect; action; function; activity; impact; result; effect; purpose; intent; (suffix) -ation, -tion etc, as in 抑制作用[yi4 zhi4 zuo4 yong4], inhibition
- (of time) to elapse; to pass; (of a situation) to develop; to evolve; to shift; to slide; to move smoothly and continuously along a surface
- system (e.g. political, adminstrative etc); institution; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to lose
- at that time; originally
- original intention
- to run in the opposite direction (idiom); to run counter to
- doctrine; dogma; creed; dogmatic
- to adapt; to fit; to suit
- to pace back and forth, not knowing which way to turn; to hesitate; to waver
- unable to change sth; unable to deal with
- to fail an exam