- ruthless; strong (e.g. of wine); (loanword) cool; hip
- nickname
- Cang Jize or Tseng Chi-tse (1839-1890), pioneer diplomat of late Qing, serve as imperial commissioner (ambassador) to UK, France and Russia
- (in) the past few days; recently; (within) the next few days
- to comment; to talk about; to discuss; discussion; CL:個|个[ge4]
- diplomat
- Asia
- quarterly publication
- European (person)
- internal affairs (of a country)
- Western medicine; a doctor trained in Western medicine
- to initiate; to instigate; to introduce; to lead
- variegated; heterogeneous; to refute; to contradict; to ship by barge; a barge; a lighter (ship)
- Boxer Rebellion (1900–1901), a peasant uprising that attempted to expel all foreigners from China, eventually suppressed by an international coalition
- residence; dwelling; abode
- to steal everything
- to inherit; to follow; to adopt
- to spell
- rule; regulation; regular; orderly; fixed
- to leave office
- English (language)
- New Year; CL:個|个[ge4]
- (literary) and; as well as; (literary) up to; as far as (as in 暨今[ji4 jin1] "up to now")
- to extend New Year's greetings; to pay a New Year's visit
- old calendar; the Chinese lunar calendar; same as 農曆|农历[nong2 li4]
- to pay a New Year call; to wish sb a Happy New Year
- auspicious; propitious
- see 二郎神[Er4 lang2 shen2]
- 合著 hé zhe: 合著 he2 zhe5: (dialect) (implying sudden realization) so; after all合著 hé zhù: 合著 he2 zhu4: to write jointly; to co-author
- China-Japan
- to form an alliance; to ally oneself with; allied with; aligned; to bond with
- embassy (old term); foreign mission
- clerk of a law court
- island; CL:個|个[ge4],座[zuo4]
- to narrate; narrative
- to return to one's home country