- feudalism
- to abdicate
- precedent
- to handle two or more responsibilities at the same time; to balance (career and family, or work and studies etc)
- to be fair; to be impartial; to settle (a matter etc)
- lit. deep plans and distant thoughts; to plan far ahead (idiom)
- absolutely not
- usual; common; ordinary
- lifetime; generation; group of people; class; classifier for generations; (literary) classifier for people
- large and small; of all sizes
- military clique; junta; warlord
- chaotic warfare; confused fighting; melee; to join in such fighting
- civil official
- function
- robust; sound
- disease; sickness; ailment
- consciousness; awareness; (usu. followed by 到[dao4]) to be aware of; to realize
- subjective
- dilemma; predicament; difficult situation
- to diagnose
- malnutrition; undernourishment; deficiency disease; dystrophy
- 症 zhèng: 症 zheng4: disease; illness症 zhēng: 症 zheng1: abdominal tumor; bowel obstruction; (fig.) sticking point
- lack; shortage of; shortfall; to be short (of); to lack
- hard to (predict, imagine etc)
- to operate; operations; workings; activities (usu. of an organization); thread (computing)
- good person; healthy person; person who tries not to offend anyone, even at the expense of principle
- sparrow; (dialect) mahjong
- unwell; indisposed; out of sorts
- common understanding; consensus
- Jonathan D Spence (1936-), distinguished British US historian of China, author of The Search for Modern China 追尋現代中國|追寻现代中国[Zhui1 xun2 Xian4 dai4 Zhong1 guo2]
- to mock; to ridicule
- exactly; just
- 可 kě: 可 ke3: (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very; but; however可 kè: 可 ke4: used in 可汗[ke4 han2]
- to hope; a hope; a wish
- to be shattered; to be annihilated (of hope, illusions etc)
- to annotate; annotation; comment; interpretation; to explain with notes; explanatory note
- clearly; evidently; obviously
- to recall; to think of; to call to mind
- end (of a period); last part; final phase
- 权 Quán: 权 Quan2: surname Quan权 quán: 权 quan2: authority; power; right; (literary) to weigh; expedient; temporary
- all levels of society; the imperial court and the ordinary people
- important minister; major figure in government
- authority; authoritative; power and prestige