Pinyin: Di2 Ren2 jie2 Definition: Di Renjie (607-700), Tang dynasty politician, prime minister under Wu Zetian, subsequently hero of legends/master sleuth Judge Dee, aka Chinese Sherlock Holmes, in novel Three murder cases solved by Judge Dee 狄公案[Di2 gong1 an4] translated by Dutch sinologist R.H. van Gulik 高羅珮|高罗佩[Gao1 Luo2 pei4]
Pinyin: Ren2 ai4 Definition: Renai or Jenai district of Keelung City 基隆市[Ji1 long2 shi4], Taiwan/Renai or Jenai township in Nantou county 南投縣|南投县[Nan2 tou2 xian4], central Taiwan
Pinyin: yi4 wu2 fan3 gu4 Definition: honor does not allow one to glance back (idiom); duty-bound not to turn back/no surrender/to pursue justice with no second thoughts
Pinyin: ren2 yi4 dao4 de2 Definition: compassion, duty, propriety and integrity (idiom); all the traditional virtues/mainly used sarcastically, to mean hypocritical
Pinyin: Xin4 yi4 Definition: Xinyi or Hsinyi district of Taipei City 臺北市|台北市[Tai2 bei3 shi4], Taiwan/Xinyi or Hsini district of Keelung City 基隆市[Ji1 long2 shi4], Taiwan/Xinyi or Hsini township in Nantou county 南投縣|南投县[Nan2 tou2 xian4], central Taiwan
Pinyin: tian1 jing1 di4 yi4 Definition: lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom); fig. right and proper/right and unalterable/a matter of course
Pinyin: duan4 zhang1 qu3 yi4 Definition: lit. to take meaning from cut segment (idiom); to interpret out of context/to focus attention on one phrase without regard to the meaning of the whole piece
Pinyin: min2 zu2 zhu3 yi4 Definition: nationalism/national self-determination/principle of nationalism, the first of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three principles of the people 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning parity between China and the great powers)/racism
Pinyin: jian4 yi4 yong3 wei2 Definition: to see what is right and act courageously (idiom, from Analects); to stand up bravely for the truth/acting heroically in a just cause
Pinyin: shi4 yi4 Definition: the meaning of sth/an explanation of the meaning of words or phrases/definition/an interpretation (of doctrine)/religious doctrine
dao4 - direction/way/road/path/principle/truth/morality/reason/skill/method/Dao (of Daoism)/to say/to speak/to talk/classifier for long thin stretches, rivers, roads etc/province (of Korea do 도, and formerly Japan dō)/CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]
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High Frequency
Pinyin: zhi1 dao4 Definition: to know/to be aware of/also pron. [zhi1 dao5]
Pinyin: you3 dao4 Definition: learned and virtuous/reasonable/right/lawful/to have attained the way/to adhere to principles of truth and right/Good government prevails.
Pinyin: dao4 Definition: direction/way/road/path/principle/truth/morality/reason/skill/method/Dao (of Daoism)/to say/to speak/to talk/classifier for long thin stretches, rivers, roads etc/province (of Korea do 도, and formerly Japan dō)/CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]
Pinyin: ba4 dao4 Definition: the Way of the Hegemon, abbr. of 霸王之道/despotic rule/rule by might/evil as opposed to the Way of the King 王道/overbearing/tyranny/(of liquor, medicine etc) strong/potent
Pinyin: Zhen1 de2 Definition: Jeanne d'Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English/also called Jehanne Darc, the Maid or Orleans, Joan of Arc or St Joan
Decomposition Levels: Level 1: Only divided once. So only two components. Level 2: Radical Decomposition. The character gets decomposed into its lowest radical components. For the complete list visit the Radical wikipedia page. Level 3: Graphical Decomposition. Shows all the strokes & lowest level of components that make up the character. If you see questions marks or too many "block" characters, especially when it comes to level 3 decomposition you might need the correct font.