- (of a task, mission or responsibility) extremely difficult; challenging; demanding
- full to capacity; fully loaded
- to load; to stow
- file; record; archive
- document; official correspondence; secretary; secretariat
- royal; imperial household
- to last; to take (time); period; diachronic
- Liangxiang town in Beijing municipality
- nationalism; national self-determination; principle of nationalism, the first of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning parity between China and the great powers); racism
- to begin (with ...) (typically used in a structure such as 從|从[cong2] + {noun} + 入手[ru4 shou3]: "to begin with {noun}; to take {noun} as one's starting point"); to receive; to obtain; to buy
- to have in one's person (feelings, talent etc)
- (in former times) upper, middle and lower army; army of right, center and left; (in modern times) the three armed services: Army, Navy and Air Force
- commander-in-chief; top military commander for a country or theater of operations
- during; at the time of
- rash; reckless
- to wait for (orders, a decision, a judgment)
- deep; profound; (of a person) reserved; undemonstrative; (of a voice, sound etc) deep; low-pitched
- to assemble; to gather (transitive or intransitive); (chemistry) poly-
- to sit and wait for death (idiom); resigned to one's fate
- to hit (a target)
- to rebel; to revolt
- to lead a team; to lead a group; group leader; (tourism) tour guide
- Lugou Bridge or Marco Polo Bridge in southwest of Beijing, the scene of a conflict that marked the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 抗日戰爭|抗日战争[Kang4 Ri4 Zhan4 zheng1]
- like a hot knife through butter (idiom); with irresistible force
- to hide; to cover up; to conceal
- to mislead; to swindle
- clause (of contract or law); CL:項|项[xiang4]
- (vulgar) trifling matter; mere trifle; goddamn thing; goddamn business
- to make a show of being very much in earnest (idiom); to act as if one is taking things very seriously
- to denounce; to condemn; to call to account; to punish
- to declare one's position; to say where one stands
- January; first month (of the lunar year)
- to let go one's hold; to give up; to have a free hand
- great trust