- 臣 Chén: 臣 Chen2: surname Chen臣 chén: 臣 chen2: state official or subject in dynastic China; I, your servant (used in addressing the sovereign); Kangxi radical 131
- broken; damaged; worn out; lousy; rotten; to break, split or cleave; to get rid of; to destroy; to break with; to defeat; to capture (a city etc); to expose the truth of
- mountains and rivers; the whole country
- 危 Wēi: 危 Wei1: surname Wei危 wēi: 危 wei1: danger; to endanger; Taiwan pr. [wei2]
- Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), senior general of late Qing, subsequently warlord and self-proclaimed emperor of China
- border region; regional general acting as governor (in Ming and Qing times)
- political arena
- to dazzle; dazzling
- star; celebrity
- Empress Dowager Cixi or Ts'u Hsi (1835-1908), regent 1861-1908
- to have misgivings; apprehension; worry; qualm; scruple
- somewhat; to some degree
- to put in an important position
- to guard against; to be vigilant; watch you don't (slip); Taiwan pr. [ti2 fang2]
- ahead of schedule; sooner than planned; to bring forward (to an earlier time)
- (coll.) to be done for
- to change into; to turn into; to become
- 江山 jiāng shān: 江山 jiang1 shan1: rivers and mountains; landscape; country; state power江山 Jiāng shān: 江山 Jiang1 shan1: see 江山市[Jiang1 shan1 Shi4]
- people (in general); people around the world; everyone
- enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out
- well-known; famous; renowned; eminent
- actually; in fact; really
- senior; older generation; precursor
- to change; to transform; shift; transformation; CL:個|个[ge4]
- awkward; embarrassed
- to concentrate; to condense; (nuclear energy) to enrich; espresso coffee (abbr. for 意式濃縮咖啡|意式浓缩咖啡[Yi4 shi4 nong2 suo1 ka1 fei1])
- ancestral hometown; original domicile (and civil registration)
- see 河北省[He2 bei3 Sheng3]
- Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- Zhili, a province from Ming times until 1928, roughly corresponding to present-day Hebei
- to be responsible for
- to surround and protect
- capital of a country (literary)
- heavy responsibility; serious criticism
- here; this place
- region of China immediately south of the lower Yangtze River, including Shanghai and adjoining parts of Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi and Zhejiang; see 江南省[Jiang1 nan2 Sheng3]; see 江南區|江南区[Jiang1 nan2 Qu1]
- to be shoulder to shoulder; (fig.) to be as good as; to match; Taiwan pr. [bi4 jian1]
- today; the present time; now
- a little
- to decline; to wane; to decay; to deteriorate
- ancestors; forefathers; ancestry
- tallest; highest; supreme (court etc)
- county head magistrate (old)
- first class; category A