- to ask; to demand
- (idiom) to illegally take possession of; to appropriate
- birds and animals; creature; beast (brutal person)
- innate sense of right and wrong; conscience; bosom friend
- divergent; side road
- to get married (of woman)
- lit. dark sky and black earth (idiom); fig. pitch dark; to black out; disorderly; troubled times
- isolated and without help
- rotten idea
- to buy; to purchase
- to take an official post; to become a government employee
- to fail; to lose effectiveness
- the rest; the others; remaining; remainder; apart from them
- announcement
- to shout abuses in the street
- people's war, military strategy advocated by Mao whereby a large number of ordinary citizens provide support in a campaign
- to cancel; to call off; to revoke; to rescind
- hoe; CL:把[ba3]
- vegetable knife; kitchen knife; cleaver; CL:把[ba3]
- border town; remote town
- mountain pass
- trace; vestige; historical remains; remnant
- to recur (of events, esp. adverse ones); to repeat (a performance)
- to restore; to renovate; (computing) to repair (a corrupted file etc)
- local tyrant; local strong man; (slang) nouveau riche
- (to act) on one's own initiative
- to detest; to loathe; to abhor
- motherland
- to disdain as beneath contempt (idiom)
- buffer; to cushion; to adjust to sharp changes
- noble and virtuous; aloof from politics and material pursuits
- to mix; to blend; hybrid; composite
- subordinate
- 耍 shuǎ: 耍 shua3: to play with; to wield; to act (cool etc); to display (a skill, one's temper etc)耍 Shuǎ: 耍 Shua3: surname Shua
- to crowd out; to push aside; to supplant
- artificial; man-made; having human cause or origin; human attempt or effort
- power; influence
- outer; excluded
- crack; gap; split
- (of a path etc) narrow; (of a living space etc) cramped; (of a way of thinking, a definition etc) narrow; limited