- to gather together; to collect; to approach; to draw near to; to add; to sum up; to comb (hair)
- custom; practice (usu. a regrettable one)
- different; dissimilar
- traceable to the same stock (idiom); of a common origin (of trends, ideas etc)
- to be widely known as
- qualifications; experience; seniority
- ordained or appointed to a post; to benefit from counsel
- each country; every country; various countries
- to negotiate peace
- to negotiate; discussion; proposal
- thirty-eighth year H2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1961 or 2021; cf 辛丑條約|辛丑条约, Protocol of Beijing of 1901 ending the 8-nation intervention after the Boxer uprising
- treaty; pact; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to speak sarcastically; to make cutting remarks; also pr. [wa1 ku5]
- outer; excluded
- 稍 shāo: 稍 shao1: somewhat; a little稍 shào: 稍 shao4: used in 稍息[shao4 xi1]
- to experience; experience
- twenty; 20
- outside (a group etc); not connected (with an event etc); external
- politics; government affairs
- 怒 Nù: 怒 Nu4: Nu ethnic group怒 nù: 怒 nu4: anger; fury; flourishing; vigorous
- correct; right; not bad; pretty good
- cunning; crafty; wily old fox
- (bound form) general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably; anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later; surely; (after a person's name) abbr. for 總經理|总经理[zong3 jing1 li3] or 總編|总编[zong3 bian1] etc
- fully fledged
- to pay attention to; to care about; to attach importance to
- to handle (affairs); to work
- spiteful; venomous
- indeed; true! (I agree with you)
- older female servant; amah
- chamber pot; wooden pan used as toilet; toilet bowl
- hard; strong; solid; sure; assuredly; undoubtedly; of course; indeed; admittedly
- not need; have no use for
- to get rid of; to remove; to exclude; to eliminate; to wipe out; to divide; except; not including
- to spread; to circulate; to hand down
- ridgepole; ridgepole and beams; person able to bear heavy responsibility; mainstay (of organization); pillar (of state)
- without learning or skills (idiom); ignorant and incompetent
- chart; list; table; register; score (music); spectrum (physics); to set to music
- private; privately owned or managed
- firmly; safely