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Trad. 籍貫
- one's ancestral home (registered place of family origin, typically inherited patrilineally and recorded in official documents)
Trad. 連貫
- to link up (disparate elements)
- coherent (narrative, argument etc)
Trad. 縱貫
- 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)
Trad. 貫氣
- (feng shui) beneficial influence, esp. from one's ancestral graves
- to confer a beneficial influence
Trad. 貫穿
- to run through
- a connecting thread from beginning to end
- to link
Trad. 羅貫中
- Luo Guanzhong (c. 1330-c. 1400), author of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and other works
Trad. 融匯貫通
- variant of 融會貫通|融会贯通[rong2 hui4 guan4 tong1]
Trad. 融會貫通
- (idiom) to integrate knowledge from various sources into a deep and coherent understanding of a subject
Trad. 全神貫注
- (idiom) to concentrate one's attention completely; with rapt attention
Trad. 如雷貫耳
- lit. like thunder piercing the ear
- a well-known reputation (idiom)
Trad. 氣貫長虹
- spirit reaches to the rainbow
- full of noble aspiration and daring
Trad. 惡貫滿盈
- lit. strung through and filled with evil (idiom); filled with extreme evil
- replete with vice
- guilty of monstrous crimes
Trad. 一以貫之
- (idiom) (of a principle, purpose etc) consistently upheld; adhered to from beginning to end
Trad. 貫徹始終
- to follow through; to carry through to the end
Trad. 腰纏萬貫
- lit. ten thousand strings of cash in money belt (idiom); carrying lots of money
- extremely wealthy
- loaded
Trad. 魚貫而出
- to file out; to walk out in a line