- (idiom) fragmented; scattered; in disarray; at sixes and sevens
- outbreak of war; opening of hostilities
- birthday; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to write personally; personal letter
- message of congratulation
- tranquility yields transcendence (idiom); quiet life of profound study; cf Still waters run deep.
- exhort; stimulate
- to exhort; to make an effort
- to hope; to expect; expectation(s)
- faithful unto death (i.e. Confucian ban on widow remarrying)
- to share tribulations; to help sb with worries and difficulties
- tone of voice; connotation in intonation; accent (regional etc); snout; muzzle; lips; protruding portion of an animal's face
- to get to know each other; acquaintance
- total annihilation
- falsification in writing; misrepresentation in written history; deliberate digression
- heroic spirit; heroism
- to face legal action; to get sued
- so much (that); even (to the extent that)
- to assist (usually a ruler)
- to unify; unified
- to regard as
- heresy
- dishonest practices
- to excuse sb; to exempt; to remove or dismiss from office; to avoid; to avert; to escape; to be prohibited
- violent; acute; severe; fierce
- 据 jū: 据 ju1: used in 拮据[jie2 ju1]据 jù: 据 ju4: according to; to act in accordance with; to depend on; to seize; to occupy
- to work hard for; to do all one can; to contend strongly
- (literary) to eliminate; to put an end to (sth undesirable)
- to be buried with the dead; to die for a cause
- to lay (railroad tracks, carpet, pipeline); to install (wiring, cable); to construct (road, concrete slab)
- answer to a riddle
- chairman; director-general (of a company etc)
- children; sons and daughters; a young man and a young woman (in love)
- close friend; pal; (social networking website) friend; CL:個|个[ge4]
- tired; weak; exhausted
- up until now; so far
- beaten; exhausted; tired
- to commit suicide; to take one's own life
- cause of death
- have no way out; have no alternative; abbr. to 無奈|无奈[wu2 nai4]
- only when absolutely essential (idiom); as a last resort