- appropriate; suitable
- 天心 tiān xīn: 天心 tian1 xin1: center of the sky; will of heaven; will of the Gods; the monarch's will天心 Tiān xīn: 天心 Tian1 xin1: see 天心區|天心区[Tian1 xin1 Qu1]
- end; extremity; limit
- the characteristics and circumstances particular to a country; current state of a country
- in accordance with; to agree with; to conform to; to meet (a requirement); (physics) coincidence
- long river; (fig.) long flow of time
- one instant; very short time; the twinkle of an eye
- several hundred
- reluctant to part
- midway
- to entrust (to sb); to place (one's hope, energy etc) in; a thing in which one invests (one's hope, energy etc)
- rubble; debris
- dust
- Chaoshan, region in the east of Guangdong, encompassing the cities of Chaozhou 潮州市[Chao2 zhou1 Shi4] and Shantou 汕頭市|汕头市[Shan4 tou2 Shi4], with its own distinct language (Chaoshan Min 潮汕話|潮汕话[Chao2 shan4 hua4]) and culture
- populous and affluent
- Pearl River Delta (PRD)
- fertile
- to emerge in large numbers; to spring up; to emerge prominently
- to ascend; to rise; to promote; to elevate; liter; unit of dry measure for grain (= one liter or one-tenth dou 斗[dou3])
- 澄海 Chéng Hǎi: 澄海 Cheng2 Hai3: Sea of Serenity (Mare Serenitatis, on the moon)澄海 Chéng hǎi: 澄海 Cheng2 hai3: see 澄海區|澄海区[Cheng2 hai3 Qu1]
- to enter a school or college; to go to school for the first time as a child
- the first half (of a period)
- for many generations; generation; era; age
- 农 Nóng: 农 Nong2: surname Nong农 nóng: 农 nong2: (bound form) agriculture
- ancestor; forefather; sb's late father
- to rush; to charge; to dash; to break through; to temper oneself (through battling hardships)
- originally; at first; at the outset
- to be penniless
- to cross the ocean
- to bear hardships and work hard (idiom); assiduous and long-suffering; hard-working and capable of overcoming adversity
- to rise abruptly (to a towering position); to tower over; to spring up; to emerge suddenly; the emergence (e.g. of a power)
- 厂 hǎn: 厂 han3: "cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 27), occurring in 原, 历, 压 etc厂 chǎng: 厂 chang3: factory; yard; depot; workhouse; works; (industrial) plant
- (husked) rice
- to open up a port for trade; to open treaty ports
- to publish; to issue; to release; to distribute
- treaty port, forced on Qing China by the 19th century Great Powers