- regular passenger or cargo ship; regular steamship service
- value; (to be) worth; to happen to; to be on duty
- lit. the cycle comes back to the start (idiom); to move in circles; the wheel comes full circle
- nobility; person of high rank
- to present as a gift
- honor; glory
- to select; to choose; to decide on
- to ration; to allocate
- a way out (lit. and fig.); opportunity for advancement; a way forward; outlet (for one's products)
- following
- Song Lian (1310-1381), Ming dynasty writer, historian and politician
- 苏 sū: 苏 su1: used in 嚕囌|噜苏[lu1 su1]苏 sū: 苏 su1: to revive苏 Sū: 苏 Su1: surname Su; abbr. for Soviet Union 蘇維埃|苏维埃[Su1 wei2 ai1] or 蘇聯|苏联[Su1 lian2]; abbr. for Jiangsu 江蘇|江苏[Jiang1 su1]; abbr. for Suzhou 蘇州|苏州[Su1 zhou1]苏 sū: 苏 su1: Perilla frutescens (Chinese basil or wild red basil); place name; to revive; used as phonetic in transliteration
- to translate and edit; translator-editor; (computing) to compile (source code)
- Wang Guowei (1877-1927), noted scholar
- 圣 kū: 圣 ku1: (literary) to dig with persistent effort (e.g. to gather wild vegetables)圣 shèng: 圣 sheng4: (bound form) peerless (in wisdom, moral virtue, skill etc); (bound form) peerless individual; paragon (sage, saint, emperor, master of a skill etc); (bound form) holy; sacred
- historiography
- to carve; carved words; to agree; a contract; a deed
- Mt Tai in Shandong; same as 泰山
- pertaining to; concerning; with regard to; about; a matter of
- Taoism; Daoism (Chinese system of beliefs)
- the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)
- pre-Qin, Chinese history up to the foundation of the Qin imperial dynasty in 221 BC
- philosophy
- school of thought
- religion
- Six Dynasties (220-589)
- to refine; to smelt
- (Taoism) talisman in the form of a painting of symbols thought to have magical powers
- science education; popular science
- outstanding people; water and fire (in Daoist writing)
- soap; black
- Mt Mao, Daoist mountain southeast of Jurong county 句容[Ju4 rong2], Jiangsu Province
- to pay attention to; to emphasize
- Taoist internal alchemy
- late degenerate stage
- to develop; to evolve