- to console; to comfort
- robust; healthy; vigorous; energetic
- elephant; CL:隻|只[zhi1]; shape; form; appearance; to imitate
- to visit; to call on sb; to look around
- melodious; mellifluous
- sweet-sounding; beautiful (of sound)
- main street; avenue
- beautiful
- (old) territories beyond the Great Wall
- hunchbacked; stooping; hunchback
- agile; nimble; all settled; in order
- low status; lowly; to lower (one's head)
- labor contractor; gangmaster
- to jeer at; to deride; to ridicule; mockery; derision
- a disgrace; ashamed
- base of the ear; ear; (Buddhism) sense of hearing
- to have a high temperature; feverish; unable to think calmly; to emit heat
- to bleed; bleeding; (fig.) to spend money in large amounts
- (bound form) to become visible (esp. on a surface or in perception)
- sunlight
- to burst with joy (idiom); to be over the moon; to be elated
- ancient state of central Asia
- (mythology) celestial horse; fine horse; Ferghana horse; (Western mythology) Pegasus
- to perspire; to sweat
- legend; folk tale; to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that...
- to read intensively
- the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经[Shi1 jing1] and the Book of History 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1]
- Records of the Grand Historian, by 司馬遷|司马迁[Si1 ma3 Qian1], first of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3]
- History of the Former Han Dynasty, second of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed by Ban Gu 班固[Ban1 Gu4] in 82 during Eastern Han (later Han), 100 scrolls
- Zhang Qian (-114 BC), Han dynasty explorer of 2nd century BC
- Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty (141-87 BC)