- country; nation; state
- political situation
- 清明 qīng míng: 清明 qing1 ming2: clear and bright; sober and calm; (of a government or administration) well ordered清明 Qīng míng: 清明 Qing1 ming2: Qingming or Pure Brightness, 5th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气[er4 shi2 si4 jie2 qi5] 5th-19th April; Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day (in early April)
- personal integrity
- (historical) affairs of state at the imperial court
- corruption; to corrupt; to rot; rotten
- (idiom) to die a martyr; to be martyred
- moral integrity; unflinching righteousness
- sage; the Sage (i.e. Confucius); (old) (respectful way of addressing a monarch) your sagacious majesty; (religion) saint
- Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as 孔子[Kong3 zi3]
- in one's childhood
- 读 dòu: 读 dou4: comma; phrase marked by pause读 dú: 读 du2: to read out; to read aloud; to read; to attend (school); to study (a subject in school); to pronounce
- affair; matter; thing; business; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- unable to understand; unable to get over
- not always; not entirely; not necessarily so; not entirely correct
- great sage; mahatma; king; emperor; outstanding personage; Buddha
- to be obstructed; to be blocked up; to be impassable; to make no sense; to be illogical
- to read a book; to study; to attend school
- to feel remorse; to repent; to regret
- all kinds
- to draw; to paint
- various; many different kinds of
- unimportant; not serious; it doesn't matter; never mind; it looks all right, but
- cannot be used; must not (do sth); unacceptable
- to paddle
- to let (sb do sth); to allow; regardless of
- (literary) small boat; skiff
- fisherman
- the bow or prow of a ship
- angling
- back end of a ship; aft
- to fish with a hook and line; to angle