- 昆 kūn: 昆 kun1: used in place names, notably Kunlun Mountains 崑崙|昆仑[Kun1 lun2]; (also used for transliteration)昆 kūn: 昆 kun1: descendant; elder brother; a style of Chinese poetry
- (bound form) hillock; mound; sentry post; policeman's beat; (bound form) job; post
- lady's private room or bedroom; boudoir
- ordinary day; everyday; ordinarily; usually
- idle; lazy; negligent; careless
- lax; negligent
- to think; this; which?; how? (literary); Taiwan pr. [ren4]
- magic; magic power
- used in 齷齪|龌龊[wo4 chuo4]
- to entail strenuous effort; to toil at a task; strenuous; laborious; strain
- outside (a group etc); not connected (with an event etc); external
- bright; smart; quick-witted; heart; thoughts; spirit
- limpid; crystal clear
- an outsider can see things more clearly or objectively than those involved (idiom)
- former years; previous years
- 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
- strong or weak; intensity; amount of force or pressure
- to overwhelm; to overpower; overwhelming
- interval; gap; clearance
- soul-stirring (of drama, poem or artwork); heart-rending; deeply moving
- to strike back; to beat back; to counterattack
- feather; 5th note in pentatonic scale
- your work (book, musical composition etc) (honorific); to erupt; to begin abruptly
- to revitalize; to restore (prestige, prosperity etc); revival; recovery
- prestige; renown; influence
- to advance or retreat; knowing when to come and when to leave; a sense of propriety
- to agree implicitly; of one mind; views coincide without a word exchanged
- sentence; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to conform to; to fit with; to be compatible with
- not having undergone; without (having gone though a certain process)
- detailed; in detail; minute
- to come thick and fast (idiom)
- confused; chaotic; disorderly
- to disregard; to leave aside