- (one's) eyes light up; to be impressed by what one sees
- predestination; karma
- (speak) without thinking the matter through
- (bird species of China) gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus)
- spear; lance; pike; CL:支[zhi1]
- ancestors; forefathers; ancestry
- trace; vestige; presence
- genuine or fake; true or false
- feather; 5th note in pentatonic scale
- lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures; CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1]; (fig.) person with a particular undesirable characteristic
- sixty; 60
- (bound form) birds; fowl; (literary) birds and animals
- 雕 diāo: 雕 diao1: to carve; to engrave; shrewd; bird of prey雕 diāo: 雕 diao1: bird of prey
- Liaodong peninsula between Bohai 渤海 and Yellow sea; east and south of Liaoning province; east of Liao river 遼河|辽河
- 俊 jùn: 俊 jun4: smart; eminent; handsome; talented俊 zùn: 俊 zun4: (dialectal pronunciation of 俊[jun4]); cool; neat
- immediately; at once; at that moment; at the moment
- price
- to cross; to intersect; to overlap
- bearing; attitude
- leisurely and comfortable; relaxed
- grade 2; second class; category B
- to protect; to defend; to safeguard; protection; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- to be careful; to take care
- prison
- lit. to break the law and violate the rules (idiom); fig. misconduct
- to visit; to call on sb; to look around
- 好处 hǎo chǔ: 好处 hao3 chu3: easy to get along with好处 hǎo chu: 好处 hao3 chu5: benefit; advantage; merit; gain; profit; also pr. [hao3chu4]
- generally speaking
- outline; main threads
- to give a lecture; to make a speech
- slow; unhurried; sluggish
- Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- 页 xié: 页 xie2: head页 yè: 页 ye4: page; leaf
- thriving; flourishing
- descendants of feudal aristocrats
- to rack one's brains for schemes (idiom); to beat one's brains out
- Republic of China (1912-1949); used in Taiwan as the name of the calendar era (e.g. 民國六十年|民国六十年 is 1971, the 60th year after 1911)
- prince's mansion
- court eunuch; palace eunuch
- to disband; to dismiss; demobilization
- among the people; popular; folk; non-governmental; involving people rather than governments