- (bound form) may; can; (bound form) to endure; to bear; (in 堪輿|堪舆[kan1 yu2]) heaven (contrasted with earth 輿|舆[yu2])
- to reduce by half
- successive years; over many years
- to stop production
- face; features; appearance; look
- to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations; with difficulty; after some effort
- system of enfeoffment; feudalism; feudal; feudalistic
- to set up an independent regime; to secede; segmentation; division; fragmentation
- to close the passes and seal off the country; to close a country to exclude foreign contact
- totalitarian
- to divert oneself from (loneliness, grief etc); to dispel (negative thoughts etc)
- countryside; rural area; CL:個|个[ge4]
- heavy burden; difficult task; great responsibility
- appendix (in a document); enclosure (accompanying a document); (email) attachment; accessory (for a car, computer etc); (anatomy) adnexa
- good or bad; good and bad; standard; quality; (coll.) very bad
- urbanization
- a sea of flames
- self-study; to study on one's own
- faultless; perfect
- exhausting; hard; tough; arduous; to work hard; to go to a lot of trouble; hardship(s)
- mother; young lady; (coll.) effeminate
- occupant
- to learn through experience; experience; practiced; experienced
- circumstances; fate
- (idiom) (of one's circumstances) beyond one's control; unable to do anything about it; (of one's actions) not subject to conscious control (i.e. done in spite of oneself)
- to break the law; to commit a crime
- joking matter; to go back on one's words
- to mix with others; to socialize; to deal with; to contend
- specifically; specially (for that purpose)
- to repay; to reimburse
- in arrears; behind in payments; to default on one's debts
- life or death
- quick step
- peace negotiations
- (military) troop morale; (fig.) team morale
- to shorten; to reduce; to curtail
- course of treatment
- willpower