- 甘 Gān: 甘 Gan1: surname Gan; short name for Gansu 甘肅|甘肃[Gan1 su4]甘 gān: 甘 gan1: (bound form) sweet; pleasant (contrasted with 苦[ku3]: bitter, unpleasant); to be willing (to do sth)
- to lay a foundation
- woman
- (literary) to covet; to cast greedy eyes on
- to send; to dispatch
- George Byron (1788-1824), English poet
- moreover; in addition to that
- Spain
- (Catholicism) pope; pontiff
- patent; franchise; concession
- to defend; to safeguard; to protect; to uphold; to maintain
- right (i.e. an entitlement to sth); (classical) power and wealth
- Spaniard; Spanish person
- economy; economic
- to compensate
- king
- to exchange; to swap; to switch (telecom); commutative (math); to commute
- to pass on; to resell; to change hands
- colony; colonial
- (idiom) inevitable; unavoidable
- to drive out; to turn back
- (idiom) extraordinary
- to loot; to plunder
- territory
- relatively; opposite; to resist; to oppose; relative; vis-a-vis; counterpart
- to have a holiday or vacation
- long and difficult trek
- to pay (expenses); expenses; (old) to dismiss (an employee)
- (of a task, mission or responsibility) extremely difficult; challenging; demanding
- should not; to owe nothing
- saving; to save; to use sparingly; to cut down on
- to do one's utmost; with all one's might; at all costs; (to work or fight) as if one's life depends on it
- to subsidize; to provide financial aid; subsidy
- to invest
- to raise resources
- to be cut off from the rest of the world (idiom)
- to live in seclusion
- too wonderful for words