- to boast; to blow one's own horn
- 辜 gū: 辜 gu1: crime; sin辜 Gū: 辜 Gu1: surname Gu
- conflagration; large fire; CL:場|场[chang2]
- (of a watercourse) to breach its dike; (of dikes) to collapse
- ahead; in front; preceding; above; also pr. [qian2 mian5]
- to be determined; to be resolved
- to be duty bound; to be one's unshirkable responsibility
- Pacific War between Japan and the US, 1941-1945
- stiff; inflexible; also pr. [ai2 ban3]
- to misunderstand; misunderstanding
- illustration; diagram; graphical representation; to explain with the aid of a diagram
- to avoid responsibility; to shift the responsibility onto others; (Tw) to relieve sb of their responsibilities (e.g. upon retirement)
- to take a wrong step in life (idiom); to go astray
- reverse side; backside; the other side (of a problem etc); negative; bad
- debate; argument; to argue over; CL:場|场[chang3],次[ci4]
- a transition (stop and change) in spoken sound, music or in brush strokes; a cadence; punctuated by a transition; with syncopated cadence (brush stroke in painting)
- to grow without restraint; overflowing with; to happen unexpectedly
- to comment; to talk about; to discuss; discussion; CL:個|个[ge4]
- without any sense of shame; unembarrassed; shameless
- centrifugal force
- (literary) earnest; sincere
- to advise
- conclusion; ending
- intellectual; intelligentsia
- accustomed to; used to; indulge; to spoil (a child)
- to broadcast; to announce over loudspeakers
- sunlight
- military song
- to sleep; to lie down
- the Three Precious Treasures of Buddhism, namely: the Buddha 佛, the Dharma 法 (his teaching), and the Sangha 僧 (his monastic order)
- to learn to read; able to read; literate
- let alone; not to mention
- lit. rich country, strong army (idiom); slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times; Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei)
- to discuss; to talk about
- to defeat; to overpower; to beat; to be defeated
- (literary) foreign aggression; external threat; humiliation inflicted by outsiders
- everyone; influential family; great expert
- to guard; to defend; to keep watch; to abide by the law; to observe (rules or ritual); nearby; adjoining
- to be born with; to be gifted with