- to lean against or on; to stand by the side of; to come near to; to depend on; to trust; to fuck (vulgar); traditional military costume drama where the performers wear armor (old)
- clear sky
- imperial power
- 子 zi: 子 zi5: noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"子 zǐ: 子 zi3: son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat; viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
- pedant
- imperial ancestral temple; imperial court; temple
- to overthrow
- May Fourth Movement; Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles
- whole; entirety; overall; whole; general; on the whole; overall
- what?; something; anything
- nationals; citizens; people of a nation
- literacy rate
- national treasury
- (idiom) penniless; broke
- customs duty; tariff
- constitution (of a country); CL:部[bu4]
- to lose
- rational; reasonable; sensible; fair
- lit. like a sheet of loose sand; fig. unable to cooperate (idiom)
- to cleanse; to scrub; to scour; to wash down; to erode; to wash away
- Pacific Ocean
- abyss
- private; personal; interpersonal; sb with whom one has a close personal relationship; a member of one's clique
- with no regard for law or discipline (idiom); flouting the law and disregarding all rules; in complete disorder
- loyal and righteous; fealty; loyalty
- to feign; to pretend
- truly; indeed; severely; harshly
- internal strife
- to change sides in a war; turncoat
- source (of information etc); origin
- tax; levy; duty; impost
- to extract; to squeeze out (juice etc); (fig.) to exploit
- 亟 qì: 亟 qi4: repeatedly; frequently亟 jí: 亟 ji2: (literary) urgently; anxiously; earnestly
- authority; power over others
- to require; to need; to want; necessity; need
- (military) arms; armaments
- according to reason; usually; in the normal course of events; to attend to
- decisive; conclusive
- one side; other; different; lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂[dao1], 亻[ren2] etc)
- see 洗心革面[xi3 xin1 ge2 mian4]
- (political) reform; revitalization; modernization
- person committed to a noble cause or ideal