- true; real
- secret; private; confidential; clandestine; a secret
- to decipher; to decode
- road direction; (fig.) direction; path
- the Qing court (as government of China)
- to implement; to carry out; to introduce (a policy, system, reform etc); to promote; to advance (the practice of an art form, the use of a language etc); to push along (a bicycle etc while walking)
- to live or die; to exist or perish
- safety and danger; safety
- to defend; to uphold; to safeguard
- to be concerned about; to care about
- divergent path; (fig.) wrong path
- to die; to lose; to be gone; to flee; deceased
- corporeal body
- hereby; from this
- crisis
- brazen; audacious; outrageous; bold; daring; fearless
- to borrow sth for another use; to borrow an idea for one's own use
- Confucianism
- to equal; to be tantamount to
- different tribe
- assimilation (cultural, digestive, phonemic etc)
- country destroyed, its people annihilated (idiom); total destruction
- law and order
- must not; cannot; to not allow; cannot tolerate
- to guard; to defend; to keep watch; to abide by the law; to observe (rules or ritual); nearby; adjoining
- abreast of modern developments; to keep up with the times; progressive; timely
- immediately afterwards; shortly after that
- to exist; to deposit; to store; to keep; to survive
- (literary) wise; wisdom
- sage; wise man; clever and knowledgeable person
- 谓 Wèi: 谓 Wei4: surname Wei谓 wèi: 谓 wei4: to speak; to say; to name; to designate; meaning; sense
- 行 háng: 行 hang2: (bound form) row; line; (bound form) line of business; trade; profession; (bound form) commercial firm; (bound form) to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age); (in data tables) row; (Tw) column; classifier for rows or lines行 héng: 行 heng2: used in 道行[dao4 heng2]行 xíng: 行 xing2: (bound form) to walk; to go; to travel; (literary) trip; journey; visit; (bound form) temporary; makeshift; (bound form) current; in circulation; (bound form) to do; to perform; capable; competent; all right; OK!; will do; behavior; conduct (Taiwan pr. [xing4]); (literary) about to; soon
- powerful; forceful; vigorous
- soldiers; a force; an army; weapons; arms; military; warlike; CL:個|个[ge4]
- country with an ancient history
- power; might; prestige
- to follow; to adhere to; to abide by
- 盛 Shèng: 盛 Sheng4: surname Sheng盛 chéng: 盛 cheng2: to hold; to contain; to ladle; to pick up with a utensil盛 shèng: 盛 sheng4: flourishing; vigorous; magnificent; extensively
- colloquial speech
- lit. rich country, strong army (idiom); slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times; Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei)
- theory of evolution; (esp.) Darwinism