- to be puzzled; hard to understand; unintelligible; incomprehensible
- method; way; approach
- complete; whole; totally; entirely
- artificial; man-made; having human cause or origin; human attempt or effort
- 常 cháng: 常 chang2: always; ever; often; frequently; common; general; constant常 Cháng: 常 Chang2: surname Chang
- perhaps; maybe
- gold; golden (opportunity); prime (time)
- sign; trademark; brand
- thumb; big toe
- cornelian (mineral); agate
- gold medal; CL:枚[mei2]
- party; delegation
- (of an emperor) to bestow
- 大夫 dài fu: 大夫 dai4 fu5: doctor; physician大夫 dà fū: 大夫 da4 fu1: senior official (in imperial China)
- loyal; devoted; faithful
- defense; to defend
- 御 yù: 御 yu4: (bound form) imperial; royal; (literary) to drive (a carriage); (literary) to manage; to govern御 yù: 御 yu4: (bound form) to defend; to resist
- apparatus; instrument; equipment; weapon
- accomplished; elegant
- devil (used jocularly or contemptuously); the departed
- an official position; a job in the bureaucracy
- tool; device; utensil; equipment; instrument; talent; ability; to possess; to have; to provide; to furnish; to state; classifier for devices, coffins, dead bodies
- to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate; to set aside (money); to poke (the fire); to pluck (a string instrument); to turn round; classifier: group, batch
- the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]; gossip; gossipy
- soft; mushy; well-cooked and soft; to rot; to decompose; rotten; worn out; chaotic; messy; utterly; thoroughly; crappy; bad
- to approach; to lean close to
- knife blade; crucial point
- to blurt out without thinking (idiom)
- the world; this world; the world of the living