- (of military personnel or athletes) to retire; (of outdated equipment) to be decommissioned
- escort vessel; frigate; corvette
- to dismount from a horse; (fig.) to abandon (a project)
- faith; belief; conviction
- to be jealous of; to envy
- (of weather) overcast; gloomy; (of a voice) low and deep; low-spirited; downcast
- rumble (sound of thunder or gunfire)
- tugboat
- to demolish; to tear down
- sharp; keen; cutting; shrill; piercing
- seawater
- to arouse; to evoke; to cause; to stir up
- billow; surge
- port; harbor
- ship; boat; vessel
- the top and bottom of sth; the full vertical extent of sth; from top to bottom; to go up and down; before and after (as in 上下文[shang4 xia4 wen2] "context"); (used after a quantity) approximately; ... or so; (in a social hierarchy) the high and the low; seniors and juniors (as in 上下和睦[shang4 xia4 he2 mu4] "harmony between superiors and subordinates"); all members of a group (as in 舉國上下|举国上下[ju3 guo2 shang4 xia4] "the entire nation"); relative superiority (as in 不相上下[bu4 xiang1 shang4 xia4] "evenly matched")
- badly damaged; shattered
- career; life (way in which sb lives); period of one's life
- prepared Chinese ink
- horizon
- pitch-black
- to fuse together (idiom); hypostatic union (religion)
- manager; administrator
- to hold a meeting; to attend a meeting
- contact surface; (computing) interface
- to accelerate; to speed up; to hasten
- fast; high-speed; rapid
- to glisten; to glitter; to twinkle; to flicker; to be evasive; to equivocate
- to travel back and forth; to shuttle
- first round or stage (of a match, election, talks, planned policy etc)
- to shine; to illuminate
- 冯 píng: 冯 ping2: to gallop; to assist; to attack; to wade; great冯 Féng: 冯 Feng2: surname Feng
- Neumann (surname); John von Neumann (1903–1957), Hungarian-born American mathematician and polymath
- Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher
- Mozi (c. 470–391 BC), founder of the Mohist School 墨家[Mo4 jia1], which flourished during the Warring States period (475–220 BC)
- Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3]
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born theoretical physicist
- (geology) rock
- 扛 káng: 扛 kang2: to carry on one's shoulder; (fig.) to take on (a burden, duty etc)扛 gāng: 扛 gang1: to raise aloft with both hands; (of two or more people) to carry sth together
- to entail strenuous effort; to toil at a task; strenuous; laborious; strain
- leadership authority
- controversy; dispute; to dispute
- to break (a bond, constraint etc); to explain; to unravel; to decipher; to decode; to crack (software)
- to rely on; to depend on; by means of; thanks to; sth that one relies on