- Is it possible that ... ?
- bright; clear; crisp; open; frank; straightforward; to feel well; fine; pleasurable; invigorating; to deviate
- sentence-final particle similar to 了[le5], but carrying a tone of approval
- anus
- (bound form) to say; to tell; to announce; to report; to denounce; to file a lawsuit; to sue
- to understand; to comprehend
- to take; to get; to choose; to fetch
- useful
- 否 fǒu: 否 fou3: to negate; to deny; not否 pǐ: 否 pi3: clogged; evil
- attractive young man (usually derog.); pretty boy; gigolo
- coal
- 欧 ōu: 欧 Ou1: Europe (abbr. for 歐洲|欧洲[Ou1 zhou1]); surname Ou欧 ōu: 欧 ou1: (used for transliteration)
- to attack; to accuse; to study; (LGBT) top
- 致 zhì: 致 zhi4: (bound form) fine; delicate; exquisite致 zhì: 致 zhi4: (literary) to send; to transmit; to convey; (bound form) to cause; to lead to; consequently
- to make; to cause; to enable; to use; to employ; to send; to instruct sb to do sth; envoy; messenger
- later generations
- to annotate; to add marginal comments on; criticism; marginalia
- art of war; military strategy and tactics
- to hasten; to hurry; to walk fast; to approach; to tend towards; to converge
- to prepare an ambush; to waylay
- see 螳螂捕蟬，黃雀在後|螳螂捕蝉，黄雀在后[tang2 lang2 bu3 chan2 , huang2 que4 zai4 hou4]
- physics; physical; relating to the material world
- formula
- concise; succinct; pithy
- weary
- vital part; (fig.) key point; crucial
- to get sth done once and for all
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中|罗贯中[Luo2 Guan4 zhong1], one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, portraying Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备[Liu2 Bei4] Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉[Shu3 Han4] as heroes and Cao Cao's 曹操[Cao2 Cao1] Wei 魏[Wei4] as villains
- Cheng Yu (141-220), advisor to General Cao Cao 曹操 during the Three Kingdoms era
- to offer; to give (as tribute); to devote (one's life); to sacrifice (oneself)
- Ambush from Ten Sides (pipa solo piece); House of Flying Daggers (2004 movie by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀|张艺谋[Zhang1 Yi4 mou2])
- to make a surprise attack; to pounce on (an enemy)
- Yuan Shao (153-202), general during late Han, subsequently warlord
- a faulty stroke in calligraphy or painting; a faulty expression in writing
- Luo Guanzhong (c. 1330-c. 1400), author of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and other works
- with great difficulty; very difficult