- chief offender; main culprit
- to implicate
- injustice; grievance; wrong
- (of mountains etc) to stand facing each other; (fig.) to confront each other
- to run this way and that (idiom); to rush about busily; to bustle about; to hopscotch; also 東跑西顛|东跑西颠[dong1 pao3 xi1 dian1]
- (onom.) whooshing; swishing; rustle of skirts; laughingly
- for a long time; for ages
- to survive (a serious accident); survival
- to sweep away; to sweep across
- 圩 xū: 圩 xu1: (dialect) country fair; country market圩 wéi: 圩 wei2: dike
- (coll.) mother; mom; (literary) elderly mother
- from the cradle to the grave (idiom); to go through fire and water; brave; willing to risk life and limb
- lit. seek but fail to get (idiom); fig. exactly what one’s been looking for
- teachers and students
- to store up; reserves
- lit. mustn't speak of two things on the same day (idiom); not to be mentioned in the same breath; incomparable
- to experience; to go through; experience (CL:段[duan4],次[ci4])
- all the year round
- to endure (years of suffering)
- to condense; to concentrate; compression; concentration
- to crystallize; crystallization; crystal; crystalline; (fig.) the fruit (of labor etc)
- to exceed; to overstep; to go too far; to encroach
- to refuse politely
- to protect; to defend; to guard against; to prevent
- punitive expedition to the east
- midnight
- torch; CL:把[ba3]
- rapid advance; forced march
- (idiom) heart-stopping; hair-raising; breathtaking
- horizontal traverse; to cut across; to cross transversally
- to seek help (when in distress or having difficulties)
- whole sky
- one-legged mountain demon of Chinese mythology; Chinese mythical figure who invented music and dancing; Chinese rain god; surname Kui
- to hold a pass; to guard (a strategic location)
- to smell; to sniff; to nose
- my (polite); poor; ruined; shabby; worn out; defeated
- unit of area equal to 100 畝|亩[mu3] or 6.67 hectares; a short while; a little while ago; circa. (for approximate dates)
- short name for Sichuan 四川[Si4 chuan1] province; one of the Three Kingdoms 三國|三国[San1 guo2] after the Han dynasty, also called 蜀漢|蜀汉[Shu3 Han4], situated around what is now Sichuan province