- 仇 Qíu: 仇 Qiu2: surname Qiu仇 chóu: 仇 chou2: hatred; animosity; enmity; foe; enemy; to feel animosity toward (the wealthy, foreigners etc)仇 qíu: 仇 qiu2: spouse; companion
- Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an 施耐庵[Shi1 Nai4 an1], one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature
- (old) the Big Dipper; (old) collective name for the three stars that form the handle of the Big Dipper
- to kill with one's own hand
- imperial guard
- sporting coach; military drill master (in Song times)
- Lin Chong, one of the Heroes of the Marsh in Water Margin
- 陆 Lù: 陆 Lu4: surname Lu陆 lìu: 陆 liu4: six (banker's anti-fraud numeral)陆 lù: 陆 lu4: (bound form) land (as opposed to the sea)
- 虞 yú: 虞 yu2: (literary) to expect; to anticipate; (literary) to be concerned about; to be apprehensive; (literary) to deceive; to dupe虞 Yú: 虞 Yu2: surname Yu
- darling; (in negative sentences) heart; humanity
- Wu Song, a heroic outlaw of Liangshan Marsh in the classic novel Water Margin 水滸傳|水浒传[Shui3 hu3 Zhuan4], whose exploits include killing a tiger with his bare hands
- brutal; tyrannical
- 搁 gé: 搁 ge2: to bear; to stand; to endure; Taiwan pr. [ge1]搁 gē: 搁 ge1: to place; to put aside; to shelve
- rogue; hoodlum; gangster; immoral behavior
- 刀 dāo: 刀 dao1: knife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass (CL:把[ba3]); (slang) (loanword) dollar; classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper); classifier for knife cuts or stabs; (Internet slang) to bargain; to ask for a small discount (esp. on second-hand marketplaces)刀 Dāo: 刀 Dao1: surname Dao
- to chop; to cut down; to throw sth at sb
- edge of blade
- children; sons and daughters; a young man and a young woman (in love)
- to pay a debt of gratitude; to repay a kindness
- to take revenge; to avenge
- debt of gratitude coupled with duty to avenge
- (esp. of poetry, music) melancholy; sad and moving
- nothing can surpass
- 横 hèng: 横 heng4: harsh and unreasonable; unexpected横 héng: 横 heng2: horizontal; across; crosswise; horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters); to place (sth) flat (on a surface); to cross (a river, etc); in a jumble; chaotic; (in fixed expressions) harsh and unreasonable; violent
- double-edged sword; CL:口[kou3],把[ba3]; classifier for blows of a sword
- to meet death
- "Journey to the West", a Ming dynasty novel by Wu Cheng'en 吳承恩|吴承恩[Wu2 Cheng2 en1], one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, also known as "Pilgrimage to the West" or "Monkey"
- master and disciple
- along the sides of the road; by the wayside
- to rescue; to help out of difficulties; to save the situation
- Daoist immortal; supernatural entity; (in modern fiction) fairy, elf, leprechaun etc; fig. lighthearted person
- monster; devil
- unrighted wrong; unredressed injustice
- 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
- large; large-scale
- Liu Bei (161-223), warlord at the end of the Han dynasty and founder of the Han kingdom of Shu 蜀漢|蜀汉 (c. 200-263), later the Shu Han dynasty