- to collect; to recruit
- to rank (1st, 2nd etc); ranking
- senior; of a senior generation; to honor; to respect; honorific; classifier for cannons and statues; ancient wine vessel
- good teacher and helpful friend (idiom); mentor
- naughty; mischievous
- to make industrious and diligent efforts (idiom)
- early period; early phase; early stage
- to conceal oneself; to go into hiding; to take cover
- elderly
- (literary) to pass away; to die; to depart from this world
- countryside; rural area; CL:個|个[ge4]
- among; in the middle; in the center
- to hover between life and death (idiom); to suffer terribly; within an inch of one's life
- (idiom) willing to help others
- natural instincts; nature; inherent quality
- Korean War (1950-1953)
- to split up; to divide; to break up; fission; schism
- to annex
- south; southern direction; (in China) southern regions, often referring to areas south of the Yangtze River
- collision; crash; to crash together; to collide with; to bump into
- United Nations
- (bound form) army; military
- complications (undesired side-effect of medical procedure)
- bitter fighting; a violent battle
- to meet
- 帅 Shuài: 帅 Shuai4: surname Shuai帅 shuài: 帅 shuai4: (bound form) commander-in-chief; (bound form) to lead; to command; handsome; graceful; dashing; elegant; (coll.) cool!; sweet!; (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)
- to worry; to concern oneself with; worried; anxiety; sorrow; (literary) to observe mourning
- sleeve
- (literary) dog; Kangxi radical 94
- fountainhead; well-spring; water source; fig. origin
- to gather together, pool or collect; to happen by chance; to move close to; to exploit an opportunity
- puppet