- to lift; to raise; to raise one's head; high; high spirits; soaring; expensive
- in order; in succession
- to warm up; to heat up; hot (of weather); heat; fervent
- emptiness; void; abstract theory or guiding principles; empty or unoccupied; diffident or timid; false; humble or modest; (of health) weak; virtual; in vain
- to recite; to repeat from memory
- not clear; unknown; to fail to understand
- to swallow in one gulp (idiom); (fig.) to accept without thinking; to lap up
- lit. ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine (idiom); fig. to know fluently; to know sth inside out; to know sth by heart
- to read smoothly (of text); to blurt out (without thinking); to suit one's taste (of food)
- secret know-how; key (to longevity); secret (of happiness); recipe (for success)
- flabbergasted; astonished
- the whole story
- to exclaim in admiration; a gasp of surprise
- Double Ninth or Yang Festival; 9th day of 9th lunar month
- a real person; Daoist spiritual master
- to compose (a piece of writing); to write; (written) work; writer
- everywhere; all over; classifier for actions: one time
- to be proficient in; to master (a subject)
- Sanskrit
- to compose; to compile
- sutra; Taoist treatise
- imperial decree; purport; aim; purpose
- to hold; to grasp; to support; to maintain; to persevere; to manage; to run (i.e. administer); to control
- 章 zhāng: 章 zhang1: chapter; section; clause; movement (of symphony); seal; badge; regulation; order章 Zhāng: 章 Zhang1: surname Zhang
- 毁 hǔi: 毁 hui3: to destroy; to ruin; to defame; to slander毁 hǔi: 毁 hui3: to destroy by fire毁 hǔi: 毁 hui3: to defame; to slander
- unreconciled to; not resigned to; unwilling
- to revise; to edit
- Chinese language
- transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters); characters giving phonetic value of Chinese word or name (when the correct characters may be unknown); transcription (linguistics); to transcribe phonetic symbols
- later generations
- 中土 Zhōng Tǔ: 中土 Zhong1 Tu3: China-Turkey; Sino-Turkish中土 Zhōng tǔ: 中土 Zhong1 tu3: (literary) the Central Plains of China; (literary) China
- native; person from a particular place
- (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...; -er; -ist; (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously); (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term); (old) (used at the end of a command); (old) this
- very little; very few