- damask; thin silk
- a book; a volume
- my wife (humble)
- to be indebted (to sb)
- to be alive
- rim of the eye; eye socket
- to write personally; personal letter
- to read; reading
- normally; ordinarily speaking
- in writing; written
- to choose; to select
- to bless; to protect; protection (esp. divine)
- to tell one lie after another (idiom); to talk nonsense; bogus story
- foolish; foolishness
- to recite (a text) from memory; to learn a text by heart; to back; to endorse (a political candidate, product, check etc); backing; endorsement
- abstruse; complicated
- body weary, strength exhausted (idiom); extremely tired; spent
- outlying islands
- to change according to the situation (idiom); pragmatic
- in a word; in short; in brief
- until; (used in combination with words like 到[dao4] or 至[zhi4] in constructs of the form 到...為止|到...为止)
- seal (of office); seal script (a calligraphic style); the small seal 小篆 and great seal 大篆; writing in seal script
- document; official correspondence; secretary; secretariat
- tadpole; CL:隻|只[zhi1],條|条[tiao2]
- home page (of a website); title page; front page; first page; fig. beginning; cover letter
- book; booklet; classifier for books
- character; script; writing; written language; writing style; phraseology; CL:個|个[ge4]
- regular script (Chinese calligraphic style)
- to copy; to transcribe
- beautiful; graceful
- sth written or painted in one's own hand; (of a writer, calligrapher or painter) skill; style; hand; (fig.) style shown in spending money, handling business etc; scale
- (onom.) the thumping of one's heart
- words and sentences
- omission; to leave out; missing
- in disorder; messy; Taiwan pr. [san4 luan4]