- standard; norm; criterion; (adjective) standard; good; correct; conforming to a standard
- Chinese language
- south; southern direction; (in China) southern regions, often referring to areas south of the Yangtze River
- north; the northern part a country; China north of the Yellow River
- Italian (language)
- Florence, Italy
- 语 yǔ: 语 yu3: dialect; language; speech语 yù: 语 yu4: (literary) to tell; to let (sb) know
- long poem
- 荣 róng: 荣 rong2: glory; honor; thriving荣 Róng: 荣 Rong2: surname Rong
- legend; folk tale; to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that...
- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet, author of the Divine Comedy 神曲
- talent; gift; genius; talented; gifted
- local
- colloquial speech; spoken language; vernacular language; slander; gossip; CL:門|门[men2]
- perfect
- his; her; its; their; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it)
- graceful; fine; elegant
- bold and unrestrained; untrammeled
- passion; fervor; enthusiasm; strong emotion
- to contemplate; to ponder; contemplation; meditation
- power; force; strength
- to appear vividly on paper (idiom); to show forth vividly (in writing, painting etc); to stand out markedly
- compared with
- ancient; old; age-old
- Latin (language)
- 神曲 shén qū: 神曲 shen2 qu1: medicated leaven (used in TCM to treat indigestion)神曲 Shén qǔ: 神曲 Shen2 qu3: The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 但丁
- opportunity to live; hope of success; vigor; vitality
- hard to (predict, imagine etc)
- to convey in words
- amiable; cordial; close and dear; familiar
- to feel; to move; to touch; to affect; feeling; emotion; (suffix) sense of ~
- to benefit from; thanks to
- to distribute; to assign; to allocate; to partition (a hard drive)
- Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- to incline; to lean; to slant; to slope; to tilt
- region; area (informal or geographical term); prefecture (in China's administrative system)
- ruler
- to degenerate; impoverished; to fall (into poverty); to be reduced (to begging)
- to write
- to write down; to record; written account
- the 24 or 25 official dynastic histories; true history, as opposed to fictional adaptation or popular legends
- unofficial history; history as popular legends
- to exile; to banish; to deport; to float (logs) downstream
- popular tradition; folk legend
- form; specification; format
- 方言 fāng yán: 方言 fang1 yan2: topolect; dialect方言 Fāng yán: 方言 Fang1 yan2: the first Chinese dialect dictionary, edited by Yang Xiong 揚雄|扬雄[Yang2 Xiong2] in 1st century, containing over 9000 characters
- to mature; to grow; growth