- (literary) to aid; to assist
- expansive; wide; width; thickness
- to wish; to want; ready; willing (to do sth)
- unnamed hero
- to straighten one's back
- to resist Japan (esp. during WW2); anti-Japanese (esp. wartime activities)
- to know; to be informed of
- Wusong river and dock area in Shanghai
- Zhang Zhizhong (1890-1969), National Revolutionary Army general
- Jiading district of northwest Shanghai; final reign name 1208-1224 of South Song emperor Ningzong 寧宗|宁宗[Ning2 zong1]
- (bound form) to clasp under the arm; (bound form) to coerce; (bound form) to harbor (resentment etc); Taiwan pr. [xia2]
- 策 cè: 策 ce4: policy; plan; scheme; bamboo slip for writing (old); to whip (a horse); to encourage; riding crop with sharp spines (old); essay written for the imperial examinations (old); upward horizontal stroke in calligraphy策 Cè: 策 Ce4: surname Ce
- to be frightened; fear; dread
- a nation's power
- courage; bravery
- (bound form) (of water, esp. the ocean) deep blue-green; (literary) cold
- natural disaster
- frequent
- to be in a tangle; to nag
- vigor; strength; vitality
- to hear (sth said); one hears (that); hearsay; listening and speaking
- to break off relations; to break with sb
- young guard; young and vigorous group with new ideas; new wave
- former acquaintance; old friend
- to visit (a superior)
- the most important; of chief importance
- to assassinate
- to die; to perish
- normal state
- an extravagant hope; to have excessive expectations
- lit. with swords drawn and bows bent (idiom); fig. a state of mutual hostility; at daggers drawn
- hardline faction; hawks
- moderate faction
- convention (i.e. international agreement)
- to hesitate over what move to make (idiom); to waver; to shilly-shally
- abbr. for 國際聯盟|国际联盟[Guo2 ji4 Lian2 meng2], League of Nations (1920-1946), based in Geneva, precursor of the UN