Vocabulary: 大清相国
- religious ceremony; ritual
- see 徐州市[Xu2 zhou1 Shi4]
- 3rd earthly branch: 3-5 a.m., 1st solar month (4th February-5th March), year of the Tiger; ancient Chinese compass point: 60°
- several thousand
- 印 yìn: 印 yin4: to print; to mark; to engrave; a seal; a print; a stamp; a mark; a trace; image印 Yìn: 印 Yin4: surname Yin; abbr. for 印度[Yin4 du4], India
- income; receipts; earnings; revenue
- thriving; well-off; substantial
- keep silent; not say a word
- to investigate and find out; to ascertain
- lit. beat the grass to scare the snake (idiom); fig. to inadvertently alert an enemy; to punish sb as a warning to others
- faint; dim; dull; insipid; unenthusiastic; indifferent
- market; city; municipality (administrative unit); (literary) to trade; to buy and sell goods
- can; jar; pot
- to clench one's teeth; to grind the teeth; gnaw
- to be annoyed; to get angry
- (bound form) sly; crafty; (literary) weird; bizarre; (literary) contradictory; inconsistent
- to bring together; to make do in a bad situation; to just get by; to improvise; passable; not too bad
- hundred thousand
- (idiom) to have never met sb before; entirely unacquainted
- heterodyne (electronics)
- humble; modest; unpretentious; modesty
- extroverted; outgoing; to play audio through speakers (rather than through earphones); (old) to appoint to a post outside the capital
- see 拐彎抹角|拐弯抹角[guai3 wan1 mo4 jiao3]
- main topic; matter at hand
- many; multiple; multi- (faceted, ethnic etc)
- to provide loans
- to take one's leave; to bid farewell
- ugly; unsightly
- obviously; plainly; undoubtedly; definitely
- to seal up
- model or template character; written slogan or phrase; mention (e.g. "air mail" 航空 on a letter, "first draft" 初稿 on a document etc)
- definite; conclusive; undeniable; authentic; also pr. [que4 zuo4]
- nationalized; public; government owned; state-owned
- to part company; to split up; to break up