- Xu Fu (3rd century BC), Qin dynasty court necromancer
- Qin Shihuang (259-210 BC), the first emperor
- legendary magic potion of immortals; panacea; fig. wonder solution to a problem
- (idiom) to live forever and never grow old
- Qin Dynasty (221-207 BC)
- to expand; to inflate; to swell
- a statue; a Buddhist image; sculpture; to carve
- to pursue (a goal etc) stubbornly; to seek after; to woo
- to divide (and give to others)
- official in feudal court; subject
- to put to use; to apply; practical; applied (science, linguistics etc); application; practical use; (computing) app
- influential officials; bigwigs
- social class
- investor
- extremely large (of paintings, photographs etc)
- superfluous; unnecessary; surplus
- locust
- to halt; to break off; pause (in speech)
- strong; powerful; robust
- harvester (machine)
- crop failure; famine; debt; difficulty
- disease; sickness; ailment
- human life; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- to rebuild; to reconstruct; to reestablish
- order; orderliness (in society, in the classroom, on the roads etc)
- battle cry
- lamentable
- everything
- 论 Lún: 论 Lun2: abbr. for 論語|论语[Lun2 yu3], The Analects (of Confucius)论 lùn: 论 lun4: opinion; view; theory; doctrine; to discuss; to talk about; to regard; to consider; per; by the (kilometer, hour etc)
- to strive for; to vie for; to argue or debate; deficient or lacking (dialect); how or what (literary)
- sinister; vicious; wicked; evil
- totally unaware
- to underestimate; to underrate
- to start shooting or firing; to win an initial success; to succeed (of a plan)
- to prevail over; to defeat; to surmount
- to make a comeback; (of a doctor's assessment of the gender of a fetus) to turn out to be wrong
- to adopt or carry out (measures, policies, course of action); to take
- plague; pestilence
- 末日 mò rì: 末日 mo4 ri4: last day; end; final days; doomsday末日 Mò rì: 末日 Mo4 ri4: Judgment Day (in Christian eschatology)
- every place
- to be gratified
- center; hub; the central administration
- wide; vast