# Maps HTML entity numbers of Chinese characters to English meaning
# This table is barely adequate for translating the Shennong Bencao.
# In general, the meanings of Chinese characters are much broader.
# Last edited on 2004-05-30 14:35:24 by stolfi
# 
&#19968; one/another
&#19977; three
&#19978; upper/goes-up
&#19979; lower
&#19981; not
&#20013; middle/center/in
&#20025; red/cinnabar
&#20037; long
&#20116; five
&#20154; person
&#20196; causes
&#20415; plain/easy/then/so
&#20663; injury/wound
&#20986; exits
&#21033; benefit/sharp
&#21435; removes/goes-away
&#21517; name
&#21619; tastes
&#22533; strong/firm/solid
&#22823; great/big
&#22899; woman
&#23376; NOUN-SUFF
&#23433; calm/pacifies
&#23450; stabilizes
&#23506; cold
&#23526; real/true
&#23567; little/young
&#23665; mountain/hill
&#24029; river/floodplain
&#24179; flat/level/equal
&#24180; years
&#24310; extends
&#24375; strenghtens/powerful/better
&#24494; tiny/a-little
&#24515; heart
&#24760; afraid
&#24801; evil/loathe/nauseated
&#26126; brightens
&#26234; wits
&#26381; take # For medicieness
&#27490; stops
&#27515; dies/unyielding
&#27578; kill
&#27602; poison
&#27683; vital-breath # qi4 = "Qi", the "vital energy" of Taoist medicine
&#27700; water 
&#27744; pond/reservoir
&#27835; cures
&#27880; injects/pours-into
&#28331; lukewarm
&#28629; moist/wet
&#29976; sweet
&#29983; grows
&#30142; sickness
&#30171; pain
&#30202; numbness/paralysis
&#30241; sore/skin-ulcer
&#30279; epilepsy/insanity
&#30320; carbuncle
&#30333; white
&#30334; hundred
&#30382; skin
&#30410; benefits/increases
&#30446; eyes 
&#30772; breaks/splits
&#31070; spirit/soul
&#31309; accumulates
&#31563; muscle
&#31680; part/point
&#31934; energy/essence
&#32080; binds/bears-fruit/sturdy
&#32769; elderly
&#32784; is-unbearable
&#32858; gathers
&#32905; meat/flesh
&#32908; muscle/flesh
&#33131; swollen
&#33144; intestines
&#33145; abdomen/stomach
&#33178; skin
&#33510; bitter/painful
&#33609; grass/rough
&#34255; viscera # zang4 = actually "repository"; mistaken for &#33247; ?
&#34645; consume-slowly
&#34802; worm/insect/animal
&#34865; insanity/poison
&#34880; blood
&#35036; helps/repairs
&#35576; all/many/various
&#35895; valley
&#36196; red
&#36523; body
&#36629; lightens
&#36763; tired/8th-heaven-stem
&#36870; opposes/contrary
&#36890; opens/goes-through
&#37034; evil
&#37240; sour/acid/sore
&#37329; metal/gold
&#37504; silver
&#38263; long/forever
&#38281; closes/stops-up
&#38283; opens
&#38500; eliminates
&#38512; fem-principle  # yin1 = "Yin" of "Yin and Yang"
&#38738; blue-green
&#38754; fades/side/aspect/face/flour
&#38957; head
&#39080; wind/manner/custom
&#39135; food/fodder
&#39138; hungry
&#39514; fright/startles/alarms
&#39592; bone
&#39740; ghost/craft/sly
&#39746; ethereal-soul
&#39748; corporeal-soul
&#40569; salty
&#40643; sulfur/yellow
&#29105; heat/heats-up
&#28580; marsh/beneficence
&#30707; stone