- end of the year
- the two provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi (traditional)
- abbr. for Hunan 湖南 province in south central China; abbr. for Xiangjiang river in Hunan province
- see 貴州省|贵州省[Gui4 zhou1 Sheng3]
- ashamed and sorry; suffering shame and remorse
- fate of the nation
- to look far ahead; to look forward (to)
- overall situation
- a scene of devastation meets the eye everywhere one looks (idiom)
- lit. pulling on the lapels exposes the elbows (idiom); strapped for cash; unable to make ends meet
- 超人 Chāo rén: 超人 Chao1 ren2: Superman, comic book superhero超人 chāo rén: 超人 chao1 ren2: superhuman; exceptional
- perseverance; willpower
- to doubt; to distrust; unconvincing; to puzzle over; misgivings; suspicions
- see 蠻橫|蛮横[man2 heng4]
- sigh; also pr. [jue1]
- 茹 Rú: 茹 Ru2: surname Ru茹 rú: 茹 ru2: to eat; (extended meaning) to endure; putrid smell; vegetables; roots (inextricably attached to the plant)
- wronged; to suffer false accusations
- misfortune; adversity; unfortunate; sad; unfortunately; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to worry; anxiety (about)
- to suffer from insomnia
- negative; passive; inactive
- short term; short time
- (try to) overcome (hardships etc); to conquer; to put up with; to endure
- extremely
- rude and unreasonable
- 喻 yù: 喻 yu4: to describe sth as; an analogy; a simile; a metaphor; an allegory喻 Yù: 喻 Yu4: surname Yu
- nature; character; property; quality; attribute; sexuality; sex; gender; suffix forming adjective from verb; suffix forming noun from adjective, corresponding to -ness or -ity; essence; CL:個|个[ge4]
- dry; parched; impatient; vexed; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [sao4]) minced meat
- anxious; impatient
- still; calm; quiet; not moving
- to take upon oneself; to assume
- scholar; Confucian
- 澹 Tán: 澹 Tan2: surname Tan澹 dàn: 澹 dan4: tranquil; placid; quiet
- skill; art; kung fu; labor; effort
- still; peaceful; quiet
- (math.) single-variable; univariate
- Confucian school, founded by Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3] (551-479 BC) and Mencius 孟子[Meng4 zi3] (c. 372-c. 289 BC)
- Zen Buddhism
- sinology; Chinese studies (in foreign schools); Han Learning, a Qing dynasty movement aiming at a philological appraisal of the Classics
- the not-very-distant past; modern times, excluding recent decades; (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919); capitalist times (pre-1949)
- to disdain to do sth; to think sth not worth doing; to feel it beneath one's dignity
- old-fashioned; out of date; obsolete; antiquated