- promoter; advocate; driving force; pushing hands (two-person training routine esp. in t'ai chi)
- to be situated at; to find oneself at
- to shed one's mortal body and exchange one's bones (idiom); born again Daoist; to turn over a new leaf; fig. to change wholly; to create from other material (story, artwork etc)
- lit. from head to tail (idiom); thoroughgoing; through and through; out and out; from top to bottom
- newcomer; new recruit; fresh talent; newlywed, esp. new bride; newlywed couple; bride and groom; (paleoanthropology) later-period Homo sapiens
- course of events; process; (computing) process (a running instance of a program)
- to bleed; to shed blood
- always; throughout (a period of time); (of) all-time
- to do sth by force; Taiwan pr. [qiang3 xing2]
- peasant; farmer
- to transition to a new dynasty or regime
- to use; to put to use
- stratagem; strategy; resourcefulness
- to adopt or carry out (measures, policies, course of action); to take
- to cross over (by ferry); transition; interim; caretaker (administration)
- similar; analogous
- constitutional government
- north and south; north to south
- peace talks
- main key (of a musical composition); keynote (speech)
- monarch; sovereign
- to change; to alter; to modify
- I; me; myself; oneself; yourself; himself; herself; the person concerned
- favor; grace; kindness; (coll.) used like 嗯[en4] in online chat, expressing agreement
- misfortune; adversity; unfortunate; sad; unfortunately; CL:個|个[ge4]
- situation; state (of affairs)
- to sacrifice one's life
- to keep; to maintain; to preserve
- monarch; lord; gentleman; ruler
- statute; constitution
- not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc)
- (adjective) other
- to attempt; to try
- north China army, a modernizing Western-style army set up during late Qing, and a breeding ground for the Northern Warlords after the Qinghai revolution
- Tongmenghui, Sun Yat-sen's alliance for democracy, founded 1905, became the Guomindang 國民黨|国民党 in 1912
- to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning); revolution; revolutionary; to revolt (against sb or sth); to revolutionize (sth); (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern 革noun的命); CL:次[ci4]
- power; force; strength
- to combine; to link; to integrate; binding; CL:次[ci4]
- parliament; legislative assembly
- national
- form of government; system of government
- to set up a constitution
- procedures; sequence; order; computer program