- to control; to curb; to restrict; to impede; to pin down (enemy troops)
- to mix in some sand (e.g. when making concrete); (fig.) to place outsiders into a monolithic group (to infiltrate or disrupt it etc)
- (bound form) stingy
- to torment; to torture
- as one wants; according to one's wishes; ruyi scepter, a symbol of power and good fortune
- high level; high grade; advanced; high-ranking
- to resist; to repel; to refuse
- financial affairs; finance
- old-style money shop (a type of private bank that first appeared in the Ming dynasty, flourished in the Qing, and was phased out after 1949); (in recent times) informal financial company, often operating at the edges of what is legal
- to pay a sum of money; payment
- this side; here
- box (in theater); side room; side
- flat silver (former coinage); also written 銀圓|银圆; silver dollar
- to disobey; to go against orders
- to lock; to lock up; a lock (CL:把[ba3])
- lit. to sound out the difficulties and retreat to avoid defeat (idiom); fig. to back out of an awkward situation; to get out on finding out what it's really like
- (lit. and fig.) overnight
- escaped criminal; fugitive from the law
- pardonable (of interruption, misunderstanding etc)
- to go over to the enemy; to defect
- newly-appointed; newly elected; new (in a political office)
- to understand; to make allowances for; understanding
- enemy camp
- to stain; to sully; to tarnish
- to mediate; to bring parties to an agreement
- to hire (an employee); to accept (a manuscript) for publication
- to deport; to expel
- to conclude a case; to wind up
- a burst; a fit; a peal; a spell (period of time)
- Western-style dress
- defeated remnants; scattered survivors
- once more; once again; one more time
- to report (an offense to the authorities); to inform against sb
- to seize and hand sb over to the authorities