- to investigate; to look into
- bigamy
- ruffian; hooligan
- (bound form) cavity; (bound form) speech; talk; tune; accent (in one's speech); (old) classifier for carcasses of slaughtered livestock
- lesson plan; teaching plan; a "missionary case" (a dispute over Christian missionaries during the late Qing)
- 天心 tiān xīn: 天心 tian1 xin1: center of the sky; will of heaven; will of the Gods; the monarch's will天心 Tiān xīn: 天心 Tian1 xin1: see 天心區|天心区[Tian1 xin1 Qu1]
- to refuse to acknowledge; to pay no attention to; to take no notice of; to ignore
- peer; member of the same class, generation or social group
- conflict; internal strife; dissension
- old friend
- to run fast; to speed; to gallop; to disseminate; to spread
- envelope; case; letter
- (verb complement) unable to firmly or securely (grasp, recall etc); repeatedly; continuously; constantly
- guilty conscience; to feel a twinge of guilt
- deities; gods
- ashamed
- fair criticism; just comment
- polite phrase; conventional greetings; cliché; to try to worm facts out of sb
- in private
- posthumous writing; testament; suicide note; ancient literature
- to transfer (duties to sb else); to give instructions; to tell (sb to do sth); to explain; to give an account; to brief; to confess; to account for oneself; (jocular) to come to a bad end
- future events; and what happened next... (in fiction); funeral arrangements
- to wipe clean; to scrub; (fig.) to get rid of (a bad reputation, a misconception etc)
- bad reputation; stigma
- always; at all times; never (if used in negative sentence)
- easy to do; easy to manage
- 差使 chāi shǐ: 差使 chai1 shi3: to send; to assign; to appoint; servants of an official; official messenger差使 chāi shi: 差使 chai1 shi5: official post; billet; commission; CL:件[jian4]; see also 差事[chai1 shi5]
- a flourishing period; period of prosperity; a golden age
- courtier's or minister's form of address for the current Emperor
- arrogant; overbearing
- to accept a position on a provisional basis, in the absence of better qualified candidates (humble expr.)
- arrow-blocking shield; (fig.) pretext; cover; sth used to deflect blame, criticism or pressure
- to flatter
- in a word; in short; in brief
- to feel terrified; to grow apprehensive
- to go against; to be contrary to; to violate
- 中庸 Zhōng yōng: 中庸 Zhong1 yong1: the Doctrine of the Mean, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1]中庸 zhōng yōng: 中庸 zhong1 yong1: golden mean (Confucianism); (literary) (of person) mediocre; ordinary
- an era; an age; a generation
- great person
- first signs; development (of a situation)
- cannot figure out; to be unable to take a lighter view; to take things too hard; to be depressed; to fret over trifles