- thick smoke
- lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); fig. untold numbers; innumerable; countless
- refugee
- to come pouring in; influx
- foreign concession, an enclave occupied by a foreign power (in China in the 19th and 20th centuries)
- crack; shooting sound; gunshot
- 挡 dǎng: 挡 dang3: to resist; to obstruct; to hinder; to keep off; to block (a blow); to get in the way of; cover; gear (e.g. in a car's transmission)挡 dàng: 挡 dang4: to arrange; to put in order
- to close a door; to lock a door; (of a shop etc) to close (for the night or permanently)
- bard; poet
- Gong Zizhen (1792-1841), Chinese man of letters, calligrapher and poet
- surname Gong
- orange tree; orange (color)
- the whole world; throughout the land; everything under the sun
- (bound form) curtain; tent; canopy
- to move (to pity); arousing (sympathy); touching
- martyr
- complex (psychology)
- beaming; all smiles
- 地道 dì dao: 地道 di4 dao5: authentic; genuine; proper地道 dì dào: 地道 di4 dao4: tunnel; causeway
- remote; far from civilization
- gold; golden (opportunity); prime (time)
- (idiom) to feel a rush of excitement
- 富 Fù: 富 Fu4: surname Fu富 fù: 富 fu4: rich; abundant; wealthy
- having wealth equivalent to that of an entire nation (idiom); extremely wealthy
- government revenue; tributary goods and finances; finances and taxes; wealth; property; belongings
- 白银 bái yín: 白银 bai2 yin2: silver白银 Bái yín: 白银 Bai2 yin2: see 白銀區|白银区[Bai2 yin2 Qu1]; see 白銀市|白银市[Bai2 yin2 Shi4]
- hardly; not in the least; not at all
- (bound form) house; (bound form) room
- to pace back and forth, not knowing which way to turn; to hesitate; to waver
- confusion of war; turmoil of war
- (rhetorical question) when?; how?; it's not that...
- swaggering; staggering; waddling
- one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing earth; female principle; ☷; ancient Chinese compass point: 225° (southwest)
- (idiom) the four arts of the Chinese scholar (guqin, Go, calligraphy and painting); (by extension) the accomplishments of a well-educated person
- adept; skilled
- to write a book advancing one's theory (idiom)