- front line; military front; workface; cutting edge
- to get in touch with; to contact; to stay in contact (with); liaison; (math.) connection
- army provisions
- weapon; arms; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- to practice; to train; to drill; to perfect (one's skill); exercise; (literary) white silk; to boil and scour raw silk
- Western style
- Guangxu Emperor
- 发 fā: 发 fa1: to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue; to develop; to make a bundle of money; classifier for gunshots (rounds)发 fà: 发 fa4: hair; Taiwan pr. [fa3]
- to arrive; to reach (a destination)
- dignified; composed
- 大方 Dà fāng: 大方 Da4 fang1: see 大方縣|大方县[Da4 fang1 Xian4]大方 dà fāng: 大方 da4 fang1: expert; scholar; mother earth; a type of green tea大方 dà fang: 大方 da4 fang5: generous; magnanimous; stylish; in good taste; easy-mannered; natural and relaxed
- gorgeous; resplendent or rich color
- gorgeous; garish and beautiful
- to urgently need; urgent need
- a soldier's pay and provisions
- goods; supplies
- quartermaster
- gradually; little by little; in the course of time
- to be familiar with; to know well
- to lean against or on; to stand by the side of; to come near to; to depend on; to trust; to fuck (vulgar); traditional military costume drama where the performers wear armor (old)
- hardworking; diligent
- to start out by; to grow an enterprise beginning with; to begin one's career by
- young; underage
- lit. to meet those arriving, to send of those departing (idiom); busy entertaining guests; all time taken over with social niceties
- to hold a reception; to offer hospitality; to entertain (guests); to serve (customers)
- visitor; guest; customer; client; CL:位[wei4]
- a skill; mastery of a trade; by oneself; without outside help
- abacus; CL:把[ba3]; plan; scheme
- to help; to assist; to support; for sb (i.e. as a help); hired (as worker); side (of pail, boat etc); outer layer; upper (of a shoe); group; gang; clique; party; secret society
- shop front
- to take care of; to sort out; to manage; to put in order
- everything clear and orderly (idiom); neat and tidy
- unrest (social or political); turmoil; upheaval; commotion
- to find
- protective umbrella; fig. person affording protection (esp. corrupt)
- patron; backer; close to a mountain
- on the body; at hand; among
- just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that
- to come across; to run into; to meet; to hit
- (of a groom) to fetch one's bride from her parents' home to escort her to the wedding ceremony; (fig.) to take as one's wife; to marry (a woman)
- lit. where water flows, a canal is formed (idiom); fig. when conditions are right, success will follow naturally
- to accompany
- to find a place for; to help settle down; to arrange for; to get into bed; placement