- cormorant
- pelican
- (of smoke) to disperse; to dissipate; (of birds) to fly away in all directions
- California
- capital city of an autonomous region
- American dollar; US dollar
- Anglo-
- Saxon (people)
- style
- tiles and bricks
- to build (esp. with simple materials); to knock together (a temporary shed); to rig up
- palace; CL:座[zuo4]
- spacious; wide; lenient
- bus; CL:輛|辆[liang4],班[ban1]
- streetcar; tramcar; tram
- crowded; to throng; congestion
- sidewalk
- novel; new; exotic
- to rob (with force); bandit; robber; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to kill and burn (idiom); murder and arson
- gold panner; prospector for gold
- to arrive in huge numbers; to flock there
- there is no lack of
- the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists); fig. people from all trades (often derog.)
- rogue; hoodlum; gangster; immoral behavior
- to carry a gun
- to gamble
- business; trade; commerce
- metropolis; large city; megacity
- day and night; around the clock
- to guard
- great streets and small alleys (idiom); everywhere in the city
- perpendicular; vertical
- to cross; to intersect; to overlap
- green area (e.g. urban park or garden)
- plaything; toy
- Celestial Empire, tributary title conferred on imperial China; Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
- rich; wide; broad