- decree; ordinance
- illegal; to break the law
- penalty; punishment; to punish
- Fan Zhongyan (989–1052), Song dynasty scholar and politician, author of On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记[Yue4 yang2 Lou2 Ji4]
- Hai Rui (1514-1587), Ming politician, famous for honesty and integrity
- unreasonable
- muddleheaded
- upright; upstanding; honest
- huge; enormous; tremendous
- already fixed; set; established
- high official
- Zhang Zhizhong (1890-1969), National Revolutionary Army general
- case (of fraud, hepatitis, international cooperation etc); instance; example
- official rank and salary
- to propagate; to popularize
- to speak forthrightly; to talk bluntly
- not stint; not spare; not hesitate (to do sth); not scruple (to do sth)
- 冒 mào: 冒 mao4: to emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth); to brave; to face; (bound form) reckless; to falsely adopt (sb's identity etc); to feign; (literary) to cover冒 Mào: 冒 Mao4: surname Mao
- lit. to lose one's black hat; to be sacked from an official post
- head; skull
- the present time; to be faced with
- to criticize severely; to slate
- inappropriate; improper
- to decide and act alone (idiom); to take arbitrary action; a law unto oneself
- character; temperament; disposition; bad temper; CL:股[gu3]
- definite; certain; fixed; to fix (on sth); to determine; to be sure; to ensure; to make certain; to ascertain; to clinch; to recognize; to confirm; OK (on computer dialog box)
- a person's status
- (idiom) to be a yes-man
- (of a person) short; (of a wall etc) low; (of rank) inferior (to); lower (than)
- experienced in the ways of the world (idiom); worldly-wise; sophisticated
- particular abilities; one's forte
- first two of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]
- to act as circumstances dictate (idiom)
- hero (of a novel or film); main protagonist