- middle third of a month
- heavy rain; CL:場|场[chang2]
- (used after a verb) endlessly; incessantly
- before this; before then; previously
- inside source; mole; insider; inside information; insider connections; (military) interior lines; internal telephone line
- a good chance; a golden opportunity
- to surpass; to exceed; to transcend
- to send on assignment; to deploy (troops)
- surname Cai
- 楷 kǎi: 楷 kai3: model; pattern; regular script (calligraphic style)楷 jiē: 楷 jie1: Chinese pistachio tree (Pistacia chinensis)
- to render meritorious service (one the three imperishables 三不朽[san1 bu4 xiu3]); to make worthy contributions; to distinguish oneself
- 角 jiǎo: 角 jiao3: angle; corner; horn; horn-shaped; unit of money equal to 0.1 yuan, or 10 cents (a dime); CL:個|个[ge4]角 Jué: 角 Jue2: surname Jue角 jué: 角 jue2: role (theater); to compete; ancient three legged wine vessel; third note of pentatonic scale
- August; eighth month (of the lunar year)
- to take out; to extract
- shipping by sea
- to land; to come ashore; to make landfall (of typhoon etc)
- Yellow Sea
- coastal; seacoast
- to let (sth happen); to allow (sb to do sth); to submit to; to yield
- very; completely; utterly; extremely; absolutely; hundred percent; to divide into ten equal parts
- nothing other than; to differ in no way from; the same as; to amount to
- in an instant a myriad changes (idiom); rapid substantial change
- trembling with fear; with fear and trepidation
- in order to; hoping to; attempting to; waiting for
- to invite; an invitation
- to dispatch troops
- supply; replenishment; to replenish
- not ever; not necessarily
- Hebei Province, capital Shijiazhuang 石家莊市|石家庄市[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1 Shi4] (short name 冀[Ji4])
- clear proof
- see 洛陽市|洛阳市[Luo4 yang2 Shi4]
- (literary) and; as well as; (literary) up to; as far as (as in 暨今[ji4 jin1] "up to now")
- defensive structure; military fortifications; (Tw) construction works; civil engineering works
- Yellow River or Huang He
- melancholy; depression
- calamity
- far more than; not just
- (idiom) to achieve twice the result with half the effort