- 暂 zàn: 暂 zan4: temporary; Taiwan pr. [zhan4]暂 zàn: 暂 zan4: to scurry
- (of time) how long?; (not) a long time
- to execute on the spot (idiom); summary execution; to carry out the law on the spot
- to die (idiom); to breathe one's last; to give up the ghost
- to raise (animals); to bring up (children); to keep (pets); to support; to give birth
- a warrior; a brave person
- (literary) prophecy; omen
- cherry
- river (CL:條|条[tiao2],道[dao4]); (bound form) the Yellow River; (bound form) the Milky Way; (bound form) (on restaurant menus) rice noodles 河粉[he2 fen3]
- Liu Ji or Liu Bowen 劉伯溫|刘伯温[Liu2 Bo2 wen1] (1311-1375), general under the first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋[Zhu1 Yuan2 zhang1], with a reputation as a military genius
- to start off before the others; to precede; to proceed in advance
- to execute; the law
- to suffer (from illness); to contract (a disease); misfortune; trouble; danger; worry
- (bound form) to sprout; to bud; (coll.) cute; adorable (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 萌え "moe", affection for an anime or manga character)
- prophecy; prophetic remark
- Liu Bowen (1311-1375), general under the first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋[Zhu1 Yuan2 zhang1], with a reputation as a military genius, also called Liu Ji 劉基|刘基[Liu2 Ji1]
- model or template character; written slogan or phrase; mention (e.g. "air mail" 航空 on a letter, "first draft" 初稿 on a document etc)
- baked sesame seed-coated cake
- the final years (of a regime)
- to touch; to contact; access; in touch with
- see 太谷區|太谷区[Tai4 gu3 Qu1]
- see 山東省|山东省[Shan1 dong1 Sheng3]
- to blend heterogeneous elements (from different sources, systems, styles or genres); (linguistics) to combine incompatible sentence patterns, resulting in awkward or unclear expression
- to explain; to release; Buddha (abbr. for 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼[Shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2]); Buddhism
- to gather a crowd; to muster
- precipice; cliff; Taiwan pr. [yai2]
- (military) officers and soldiers; officers and men; (old) government troops
- to treat as; to regard as
- evil cult
- to eliminate (by armed force)
- gift; innate skill
- thin; to lose weight; (of clothing) tight; (of meat) lean; (of land) unproductive
- extraordinary image
- to produce; to manufacture; to give birth to a child
- gold medal; CL:枚[mei2]
- (historical) privately hired legal or administrative advisor to a government official; teacher's teacher (in academic lineage)
- to set; to set up; to install; setting; preferences
- very likely; prone to
- background; backdrop; context; (fig.) powerful backer
- to liken to; to compare to