- (bound form) ordinary; numerous; (bound form) pertaining to a concubine (contrasted with 嫡[di2])
- 姜 Jiāng: 姜 Jiang1: surname Jiang姜 jiāng: 姜 jiang1: ginger
- 维 Wéi: 维 Wei2: abbr. for Uighur 維吾爾|维吾尔[Wei2 wu2 er3]; surname Wei维 wéi: 维 wei2: to preserve; to maintain; to hold together; dimension; vitamin (abbr. for 維生素|维生素[wei2 sheng1 su4])
- emperor; god; Hong Xiuquan's self-proclaimed title; see also 洪秀全[Hong2 Xiu4 quan2]
- Liu Bei (161-223), warlord at the end of the Han dynasty and founder of the Han kingdom of Shu 蜀漢|蜀汉 (c. 200-263), later the Shu Han dynasty
- trusted aide; confidant
- arm
- backbone; strength
- to be limited to; to be confined to
- length (of a piece of writing); space occupied on a printed page
- chapter title (in a novel)
- to defeat; to inflict a defeat on sb
- to go forward; to advance; to go in; to enter; to put in; to submit; to take in; to admit; (math.) base of a number system; classifier for sections in a building or residential compound
- to shed tears; to be all in tears
- Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an 施耐庵[Shi1 Nai4 an1], one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature
- technique of writing, calligraphy or drawing
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中|罗贯中[Luo2 Guan4 zhong1], one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, portraying Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备[Liu2 Bei4] Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉[Shu3 Han4] as heroes and Cao Cao's 曹操[Cao2 Cao1] Wei 魏[Wei4] as villains
- (old) (used by novelists) dear readers; (used by storytellers) dear audience members
- Dodge, US automobile brand, division of Chrysler LLC
- to do something to sb; to deal with; to cope; how?; to no avail
- to lack fidelity; (signal) distortion
- to uncover
- Manchurian Qing (refers to the Qing dynasty, esp. at its decline, or as an anti-Qing slogan)
- unofficial history; history as popular legends
- to forge; to fake; to counterfeit
- a swindle; a trap; a racket; a scam; CL:場|场[chang3]
- irrefutable evidence
- 刀 Dāo: 刀 Dao1: surname Dao刀 dāo: 刀 dao1: knife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass (CL:把[ba3]); (slang) (loanword) dollar; classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper); classifier for knife cuts or stabs; (Internet slang) to bargain; to ask for a small discount (esp. on second-hand marketplaces)
- to flee; to go into exile (from prison)
- to sacrifice one's life by loyalty (to one's prince, one's husband etc)
- sixteen; 16
- to accumulate merit; to do good; to give to charity; virtuous actions
- gate of a village
- reign name (1909-1911) of the last Qing emperor Pu Yi 溥儀|溥仪
- first year of an emperor's reign; first year of an era; first year of a significant time period
- to die of old age
- Qingjiang river in Hubei
- general; popular; everywhere; universal
- to live to the (ripe) age of
- to present; to bequeath