book / letter / document / CL: 本, 冊｜册, 部 / to write

tree / CL: 棵 / to cultivate / to set up

to lose / to transport / to donate / to enter (a password)

to count / to count as / to regard as / to enumerate (sb's shortcomings)

number / figure / several / CL: 個｜个

to bind / bunch / bundle / classifier for bunches, bundles, beams of light etc / to control

to erect / vertical / vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)

variant of 豎｜竖

abbr. for 書經｜书经

office / bureau / to sign / to arrange

category / genus (taxonomy) / family members / dependents / to belong to / subordinate to / affiliated with / be born in the year of (one of the 12 animals) / to be / to prove to be / to constitute

surname Shu

to stretch / to unfold / to relax / leisurely

method / technique

cooked (of food) / ripe (of fruit) / mature (of seeds) / familiar / skilled / done / also pr. [shou2]

to forgive

rat / mouse / CL: 隻｜只

heat / hot weather / summer heat

surname Shu

to state / to tell / to narrate / to relate

potato / yam

variant of 腧

abundant / ample / at ease / relaxed / to free from / to relieve

warm and virtuous / (used in given names) / Taiwan pr. [shu2]

surname Shu

to dredge / to clear away obstruction / thin / sparse / scanty / distant (relation) / not close / to neglect / negligent / to present a memorial to the Emperor / commentary / annotation

a comb / to comb

see 豎筆｜竖笔

uncle / father's younger brother / husband's younger brother / Taiwan pr. [shu2]

short name for Sichuan 四川 province / one of the Three Kingdoms 三國｜三国 after the Han dynasty, also called 蜀漢｜蜀汉, situated around what is now Sichuan province

different / unique / special / very / (classical) to behead / to die / to cut off / to separate / to surpass

vegetables

to redeem / to ransom

Zi Wei Dou Shu, a form of Chinese fortune-telling

Zhang Fei (168-221), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, famous as fearsome fighter and lover of wine

who / which / what

Shu Qi (1976-), Taiwanese actress

Zhao Yun (-229), general of Shu in Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Zhuge Liang (181-234), military leader and prime minister of Shu Han 蜀漢｜蜀汉 during the Three Kingdoms period / the main hero of the fictional Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義｜三国演义, where he is portrayed as a sage and military genius / mastermind

Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中｜罗贯中, one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature / a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, consistently portraying Liu Bei's Shu Han 劉備｜刘备, 蜀漢｜蜀汉 as virtuous heroes and Cao Cao's Wei 曹操, 魏 as tyrannical villains

to express / to give expression to / variant of 紓｜纾 / to relieve

hinge / pivot

numerous / common people (or populace) / born of a concubine

private school

pretty woman

daybreak / dawn / the dawn of a new epoch (metaphor) / Taiwan pr. [shu4]

villa

Guan Yu (-219), general of Shu and blood-brother of Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, fearsome fighter famous for virtue and loyalty / posthumously worshipped and identified with the guardian Bodhisattva Sangharama

Shu Han (c. 200-263), Liu Bei's kingdom in Sichuan during the Three Kingdoms, claiming legitimacy as successor of Han

Ma Chao (176-222), general of Shu in Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Liu Bei (161-223), warlord at the end of the Han dynasty and founder of the Han kingdom of Shu 蜀漢｜蜀汉 (c. 200-263), later the Shu Han dynasty

to rinse one's mouth with water / to gargle

courtesy name of Zhao Yun 趙雲｜赵云, general of Shu in Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Huang Zhong (-220), general of Shu in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, portrayed as an old fighter

Liu Chan 劉禪｜刘禅 (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263

moisture / timely rain

garrison

A-dou, nickname of Liu Chan 劉禪｜刘禅 (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263 / fig. weak and inept person

see 麻糬

sudden / abrupt / Taiwan pr. [shu4]

legumes (peas and beans)

a kind of sackcloth

Shu Menglan (1759-1835), Qin dynasty writer, poet and editor of Anthology of ci poems tunes 白香詞譜｜白香词谱

river in Shandong

variant of 術｜术

standing up / to stand (something) up

Nü Shu writing, a phonetic syllabary for Yao ethnic group 瑶族 瑤族 dialect designed and used by women in Jiangyong county 江永縣｜江永县 in southern Hunan

surname Shu

bamboo or wooden spear / Kangxi radical 79, occurring in 段, 毅, 殺 etc

variant of 漱

broomcorn millet / glutinous millet

metal

set forth / to spread

acmite

variant of 倏

variant of 疏

to kill / a spear

short skirt or tunic

the hole in the center of a wheel accommodating the axle (archaic)

broomcorn millet (Panicum spp.) / Panicum italicum / glutinous millet

rug

insertion point in acupuncture / acupoint

Lin Shu (1852-1924), writer and influential translator and adaptor of vast swathes of Western literature into Classical Chinese

old variant of 庶

variant of 薯

variant of 鼠

variant of 倏

coarse clothing of camel's hair

dice / gambling / to release

Sichuan / the state of Shu in Sichuan at different periods / the Shu Han dynasty (214-263) of Liu Bei 劉備｜刘备 during the Three Kingdoms

archaic variant of 菽 / archaic variant of 叔

hastiness

old variant of 舒 / old variant of 紓｜纾

illness caused by worry

foot

lit. Shu Han 蜀漢｜蜀汉 and Cao Wei 曹魏 cannot coexist (idiom) / fig. two enemies cannot live under the same sky / (former KMT slogan against CCP) "gentlemen and thieves cannot coexist"

the Prime Minister of Shu (i.e. Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮｜诸葛亮)

variant of 疏

Kusha-shū (Japanese Buddhism school)

Uncle Tom's Cabin, translated and adapted by Lin Shu 林紓｜林纾