- moral pillars; spiritual props
- to try; to make an attempt; to think of a way (to accomplish sth)
- power and position (politics)
- a little; a few
- minus; to subtract
- the end; an ending; to wind down; to conclude
- to dispute
- sneeze
- heave; surge
- a form of transit taxation in China introduced to finance armies to suppress the Taiping Rebellion
- toll (fee for using a road)
- (historical) privately hired legal or administrative advisor to a government official; teacher's teacher (in academic lineage)
- innovative
- fashionable; popular
- the first pot of gold; the initial profits from an economic endeavour
- red in the face; extremely angry
- 削 xiāo: 削 xiao1: to peel with a knife; to pare; to cut (a ball at tennis etc)削 xuē: 削 xue1: to pare; to reduce; to remove; Taiwan pr. [xue4]
- economic rights (e.g. of a state monopoly)
- to provide; to give; to grant
- military leadership; military power
- to have nothing to say (idiom)
- to read intensively
- lit. singing of the wind and the moon; fig. vacuous and sentimental (of poetry or art)
- factor; (genetic) trait; (math.) factor; divisor
- to injure; to wound; to damage
- cangue (wooden collar like stocks used to restrain and punish criminals in China)
- hat; cap; (fig.) label; bad name; CL:頂|顶[ding3]
- hat; cap
- (old) shopkeeper; innkeeper; (dialect) shop; store
- to muster; to gather a crowd
- (in) the past few days; recently; (within) the next few days
- early or late; first and last; priority; in succession; one after another
- rule
- to take the lead