- to occupy; to hold
- equivalent to; appropriate; considerably; to a certain extent; fairly; quite
- dignity; prestige; face; honorable; creditable; (of sb's appearance) presentable; respectable
- salary; wage
- generous; ample
- an official position; a job in the bureaucracy
- position; post; job
- to pass through; to get through; to adopt (a resolution); to pass (legislation); to pass (a test); by means of; through; via
- Pope Vigilius (in office 537-555); phonetic -vich or -wich in Russian names
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924), Russian revolutionary leader
- to plan; to seek; scheme
- one's affiliation (i.e. the organization one is affiliated with); subordinate (i.e. those subordinate to oneself); belonging to; affiliated; under one's command
- to hold a governmental office or post; to assume office of; to take charge of; to serve as
- key job; important position
- wife's older brother
- to take up a post; to start in a new job
- sisters; siblings; sister (school, city etc)
- closely related by blood
- cousin (via female line)
- (of cousins) descending from the same grandfather or great-grandfather
- distant relatives
- 弄 lòng: 弄 long4: lane; alley弄 nòng: 弄 nong4: to do; to manage; to handle; to play with; to fool with; to mess with; to fix; to toy with
- similar; analogous
- annual salary
- to get; to obtain
- to urgently need; urgent need
- large amount; staple; influential family of long standing
- property; assets; estate; CL:筆|笔[bi3]
- undertaking; project; activity; (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause; publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation; career; occupation; CL:個|个[ge4]
- Petersburg (place name); Saint Petersburg, Russia
- half
- to be born
- environment; circumstances; surroundings; CL:個|个[ge4]; ambient
- once; already; former; previously; ever; (past tense marker used before verb or clause)
- afterwards; later; newly arrived
- see 達官貴人|达官贵人[da2 guan1 gui4 ren2]
- one third
- older generation
- (literary) father's friends (of the same generation)
- to know; to recognize; to be familiar with; to get acquainted with sb; knowledge; understanding; awareness; cognition