- 西北 xī běi: 西北 xi1 bei3: northwest西北 Xī běi: 西北 Xi1 bei3: Northwest China (Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang)
- inspection team
- punitive expedition to the west
- outline; introduction; survey; general discussion
- 洞 dòng: 洞 dong4: cave; hole; zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers); CL:個|个[ge4]洞 tóng: 洞 tong2: used in 洪洞[Hong2 tong2] (the name of a place in Shanxi)
- to be related; to entail; to involve; joint (liability etc)
- to confer on; to give to
- each country; every country; various countries
- personal effects (of the deceased); artifacts; relics; (biological) remains
- lit. walking alone; prominent; unrivalled; outstanding
- years; time; age
- to think of oneself as terrific (idiom); arrogant
- edge and corner; protrusion; sharpness (of a protrusion); craggy; ridge corner
- to divide; to separate; partition
- (idiom) far apart; (idiom) from different places; from all over; (idiom) (to talk) about this and that
- to intercommunicate; to interoperate
- to supervise; to oversee; to inspect
- ruling party; the party in power
- ethnic minority
- separatism
- national unity
- to bear (fruit)
- to overflow; (literary) excessive
- Beijing municipality, capital of the People's Republic of China (short name 京[Jing1])
- to remove; to sack; to get rid of; to relieve (sb of their duties); to free; to lift (an embargo); to rescind (an agreement)
- mere worldly possessions
- a senior monk
- dramatic increase
- to deprive; to expropriate; to strip (sb of his property)
- to restrict; to limit; to confine; restriction; limit; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to set one's heart on sth (idiom)