- (of a dynasty, regime etc) to collapse; to fall from power
- (literary) to decline; to wane; title of a section in the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经[Shi1 jing1]
- Arabian; Arabic; Arab
- Afghanistan
- Central Asia
- to administer; to have jurisdiction (over)
- on one's desk
- power; influence; a force (military, political etc)
- to recur (of events, esp. adverse ones); to repeat (a performance)
- to fabricate; to make sth up; invented
- to develop; to evolve
- to overestimate; to overrate
- patent; sth uniquely enjoyed (or possessed etc) by a certain group of people; monopoly
- long-term; long-range
- Bolshevik
- to rise to power (in politics); to go on stage (in the theater)
- Christmas time; Christmas season; Christmas
- papers and books
- public prosecutor; public procurator (judicial officer whose job may involve both criminal investigation and public prosecution)
- to shut out; to block; to smother
- government; official (approved or issued by an authority)
- to be popular; to be well-liked; to be warmly received
- self-determination
- great changes; ups and downs; vicissitudes; abbr. of 滄海桑田|沧海桑田[cang1 hai3 sang1 tian2]
- Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
- inadvertent; accidental; to have no intention of (doing sth)
- program (i.e. plan of action); guiding principle
- (bound form) enemy; (bound form) to be a match for; to rival; (bound form) to resist; to withstand
- Arab; Arabian; Arabian people
- spirit; fairy; elf; sprite; genie
- to let off; to give out
- bottle; CL:個|个[ge4]
- regime; political power
- to output; to deliver (energy, data, signals etc); to export (goods, services, technology etc)
- elsewhere
- (bound form) general; non-specific; extensive; pan-; to flood; (literary) to float about; to be suffused with (a color, emotion, odor etc)
- Russia
- to guard; to protect
- right (i.e. an entitlement to sth); (classical) power and wealth