unity; consolidation; uniformity; unification; compatible
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
July; seventh month of the lunar calendar
twenty-fifth day of the month; twenty-five days
hero; heroine; Eroica Symphony (Beethoven, 1804); Heroic Polonaise (Chopin)
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
to need; to call for; to require
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
tragedy; tragic drama; tragic play; tragedy; calamity; disaster
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
for example; for instance; e.g.
rule; reign; peaceful times
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
talent; gift; function; noh (theatre)
(arch.) retainer; (arch.) attendant; Omi (hereditary title; orig. one of the two highest such titles, later demoted to sixth highest of eight); I; me
troubled times; turbulent times
cunning and wickedness; cunning and wicked person
male; man; excellence; greatness; best (of)
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to
to evaluate; to appraise; to comment on
palace room for government officials; fellow; set (of people); clan
great man; hero; master mind
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
legend; tradition; biography; life; method; way
I see; that's right; indeed
but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that
opinion; point of view; visual point
to change; to alter; to transform; to reform; to revise; to amend
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
the same age; same period
being under the rule of; being under the government of
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to live; to reside; to inhabit
as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of); apart from... (used to change the topic); even (e.g. "not even a single person"); thinking that...; trying to...
Cao Cao (155-220), famous statesman and general at the end of Han, noted poet and calligrapher, later warlord, founder and first king of Cao Wei, father of Emperor Cao Pi; the main villain of novel the Romance of Three Kingdoms