- raised path; street
- rapid; quick; speed; rate; soon; almost; to make haste; clever; sharp (of knives or wits); forthright; plainspoken; gratified; pleased; pleasant
- to take a taxi (in town); to hitch a lift
- to lift; to raise (a lid etc); (of a storm) to surge; to stir up (waves etc); (fig.) to trigger; set off (a wave of popularity, a controversy etc)
- to subsidize; subsidy; allowance; to supplement (one's salary etc); benefit
- war; to wage war
- to extend; to spread; to popularize; generalization; promotion (of a product etc)
- Taobao, a Chinese online shopping website (abbr. for 淘寶網|淘宝网[Tao2 bao3 Wang3])
- purse; wallet
- to compare; to liken to; metaphor; analogy; figure of speech; figuratively
- although; even though (often used correlatively with 可是[ke3 shi4] or 但是[dan4 shi4] etc)
- the flames of war; the ravages of war
- to ignite; to combust; to burn; combustion; flaming
- the other person; the other side; the other party
- territory; domain; estate; (old) fief
- just as; precisely as
- actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive; CL:個|个[ge4]
- for a long time; long since; (dialect) in the past
- 当年 dāng nián: 当年 dang1 nian2: in those days; back then; in those years; to be in the prime of life当年 dàng nián: 当年 dang4 nian2: that very same year
- (after a noun) between; among; amid; (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 彈指之間|弹指之间[tan2 zhi3 zhi1 jian1])
- to compete; competition
- to regard as; to treat as
- (name) David
- song (CL:首[shou3],支[zhi1]); (bound form) to sing
- to strive for; to vie for; to argue or debate; deficient or lacking (dialect); how or what (literary)
- to be disgusted with; to dislike; bad reaction; antipathy
- empire; imperial
- still; as before; yet
- to use; to employ; to apply; to make use of
- this way; like this; so; (before a noun) this kind of; such
- title; heading; headline; caption; subject
- preceding period; early stage
- domain; sphere; field; territory; area
- act; action; activity; move; movement
- on the contrary; instead
- avaricious; greedy; rapacious; insatiable; avid
- to rise vigorously; a spirited start
- to strike back; to beat back; to counterattack
- brave; courageous
- because; owing to; on account of
- highest; greatest; too (much); very; extremely
- big and strong; formidable; powerful
- to compete with; to vie with; to counter
- the whole family; the same family; the family ... (when preceded by a family name); group
- 大 dài: 大 dai4: see 大夫[dai4 fu5]大 dà: 大 da4: big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
- territory
- to defend; to uphold; to safeguard