- Song Dynasty (960-1279); also Song of Southern dynasties 南朝宋 (420-479)
- why
- to praise
- as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft; to have nothing; vacuous; hollow; empty (argument, head etc)
- nothing; empty
- very much; extremely; one ten thousandth part
- table; desk; classifier for tables of guests at a banquet etc
- 支 Zhī: 支 Zhi1: surname Zhi支 zhī: 支 zhi1: to support; to sustain; to erect; to raise; branch; division; to draw money; classifier for rods such as pens and guns, for army divisions and for songs or compositions
- (literary) chin; jaw; (literary) to foster; to nurture; to protect
- to calculate; to reckon; to extrapolate (in calculation)
- shadow
- courtyard; atrium; opening in a roof; skylight; caisson ceiling; (TCM) acupuncture point TB10
- slab; flagstone; slate
- depressed; dejected
- (idiom) to indulge in flights of fancy; to let one's imagination run wild
- laugh in (up) one's sleeve; snigger; snicker
- to inform; to notify
- once more; once again; one more time
- to weigh down; to trouble; to implicate (sb); tied down (by affairs)
- to protect; to defend; to safeguard; protection; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- at worst; if worst comes to worst; (usu. in the negative) serious; alarming
- to wait quietly; to await (news, a reply etc)
- sound; noise; note (of musical scale); tone; news; syllable; reading (phonetic value of a character)
- to rest; to recuperate; to regain composure
- midnight
- end; extremity; limit
- dog; CL:隻|只[zhi1],條|条[tiao2]
- (interj) boo hoo
- to bark; to yelp
- stopping and starting; intermittent; sporadic; on and off
- to ambush; to lie in wait for; to lie low; ambush
- moonlight