- tie; link; bond
- closely related by blood
- father's sister; paternal aunt
- younger sister born to the same parents
- relation by marriage; in-laws
- one who is successful in one's studies, can become an official (idiom)
- Kinmen or Quemoy islands off the Fujian coast, administered by Taiwan; Jinmen county in Quanzhou 泉州[Quan2 zhou1], Fujian, PRC
- to shell; to bombard; bombardment
- front line; military front; workface; cutting edge
- to defend; defensive; defense
- colleague; coworker
- troops under one's command; subordinate
- to die; to lose one's life
- to sharpen on grindstone; to improve oneself by practice
- scholarly; refined; cultured; courteous
- ample; complete; hundred percent; a pure shade (of some color)
- student studying abroad; returned student; foreign student; international student
- now; nowadays; modern
- the dead; the deceased
- world; earth
- dark and quiet; disappear
- trammels; fetters; yoke; to restrain; to hinder; restraint
- (bound form) soil; earth; (literary) the earth (contrasted with heaven 天[tian1])
- founder (of a craft, religious sect etc)
- Shikoku (one of the four main islands of Japan)
- person of mixed blood
- to seize; to clutch; to grab firmly and pull
- error; mistaken idea; falsehood
- loose; slack; (fig.) to soften (policies, tone of voice); to give some slack; (of a place) not crowded
- financial affairs; finance
- to issue; to grant; to distribute
- compensation payment (for injury); relief payment
- higher authorities; superiors; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to issue an official written reply (in response to a subordinate's report or request)
- two (banker's anti-fraud numeral); to betray