| 姜太公 | Jiāng Tài gōng | see Jiang Ziya 薑子牙|姜子牙[Jiang1 Zi3 ya2] |
| 钓鱼 | diào yú | to fish (with line and hook); to dupe |
| 愿 | yuàn | to hope; to wish; to desire; hoped-for; ready; willing; sincere |
| 者 | zhě | (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...; -er; -ist; (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously); (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term); (old) (used at the end of a command); (old) this |
| 上钩 | shàng gōu | to take the bait (literal and figurative) |
| shàng gōu | to take the bait |