聽君一席話，勝讀十年書

listening to the words of a wise man can be superior to studying ten years of books (proverb)

(literary pronunciation, still advocated in Taiwan) to rule / to sentence / to allow

to listen to; to hear / to heed; to obey / a can (loanword from English "tin") / classifier for canned beverages / to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4]) / (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4])

monarch / lord / gentleman / ruler

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

surname Xi

woven mat / seat / banquet / place in a democratic assembly / classifier for banquets, conversations etc

variant of 席[xi2] / woven mat

the content of a conversation / words / remarks

dialect / language / spoken words / speech / talk / words / conversation / what sb said / CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]

victory / success / to beat / to defeat / to surpass / victorious / superior to / to get the better of / better than / surpassing / superb (of vista) / beautiful (scenery) / wonderful (view) / (Taiwan pr. [sheng1]) able to bear / equal to (a task)

comma / phrase marked by pause

to read / to study / reading of word (i.e. pronunciation), similar to 拼音[pin1 yin1]

to read out; to read aloud / to read / to attend (school); to study (a subject in school) / to pronounce

ten / 10

surname Nian

year / CL:個|个[ge4]

grain / harvest (old) / variant of 年[nian2]

abbr. for 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1]

book / letter / document / CL:本[ben3],冊|册[ce4],部[bu4] / to write