贯

to pierce through / to pass through / to be stringed together / string of 1000 cash

archaic variant of 貫|贯[guan4]

cowrie / shellfish / currency (archaic)

consistent / constant / from start to finish / all along / persistent

to concentrate one's attention completely (idiom) / with rapt attention

to win every trick in a card game / grand slam / fig. total success

lit. ten thousand strings of cash in money belt (idiom); carrying lots of money / extremely wealthy / loaded

lit. strung through and filled with evil (idiom); filled with extreme evil / replete with vice / guilty of monstrous crimes

ten thousand strings of cash / very wealthy / millionaire

lit. like thunder piercing the ear / a well-known reputation (idiom)

horizontal traverse / to cut across / to cross transversally

one's native place / place of ancestry / registered birthplace

vast wealth

grand slam

one's native place / place of ancestry / registered birthplace

(literary) systematic arrangement / coherent presentation

lit. warp string in weaving / fig. vertical or north-south lines / to pass through / to cross lengthwise / to pierce (esp. north-south or top-to-bottom)

Luo Guanzhong (c. 1330-c. 1400), author of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and other works

variant of 連貫|连贯[lian2 guan4]

local coherence

old system / former rules

immensely rich

spirit reaches to the rainbow / full of noble aspiration and daring