- competition (sports etc); match; CL:場|场[chang3],次[ci4]; to compete
- to entertain; to amuse; entertainment; recreation; amusement; hobby; fun; joy
- item; project; (sports) event
- song
- musician
- to perform on a musical instrument
- musical composition
- horse race; horse racing
- Nadam or Games, Mongolian national harvest festival in July-August
- sports competition; CL:個|个[ge4]
- orderly; methodical; rhythmical
- to reprimand; to admonish; to lecture sb
- blueprint
- abuse of power
- lit. defeated, the ground blanketed with bodies (idiom); fig. to suffer a crushing defeat
- must not; may not; not to be allowed; cannot
- to refuse; to decline; to reject
- to kneel; to go down on one's knees
- to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground); also written 磕頭|磕头[ke1 tou2]
- to make a promise
- drum; CL:通[tong4],面[mian4]; to drum; to strike; to rouse; to bulge; to swell
- to eulogize; to praise
- to gather; to congregate; to aggregate
- to arrange in order; to line up; to exclude; to eliminate; to repel; to expel; to discharge; (literary) to push aside; to force open; to rehearse; row; line; platoon; (bound form) steak; chop; (bound form) raft; classifier for rows or lines (of people or things)
- palm (of one's hand); control (extended meaning from having something in the palm of one's hand)
- upward; up; to advance; to try to improve oneself; to make progress
- common saying; idiom
- to descend; to arrive; to come
- first; first time; for the first time
- and even; to go so far as to
- to speak frankly; frank; open; blunt
- dukes or princes who rule a part of the country under the emperor; local rulers
- the (rightful) emperor; "Son of Heaven" (traditional English translation)
- to issue; to proclaim; to enact (laws, decrees etc)
- succession; inheritance; hereditary
- an official position; a job in the bureaucracy
- ideology
- to believe firmly without any doubt (idiom); absolute certainty about sth
- the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism); the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大鳴大放|大鸣大放[da4 ming2 da4 fang4], 大辯論|大辩论[da4 bian4 lun4], 大字報|大字报[da4 zi4 bao4] (PRC)
- imperial wives and concubines
- working hand; member of a work team; participant; the boss (short form of 第一把手[di4 yi1 ba3 shou3])
- department; branch; section; division; CL:個|个[ge4]
- Ministry of Supervision (MOS)
- imperial censor