- worthy or virtuous person; honorific used for a person of the same or a younger generation
- to punish
- grasping officials, corrupt mandarins (idiom); abuse and corruption
- 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)
- active; energetic; vigorous; positive (outlook); proactive
- to resist; resistance
- foreigner; (esp.) Westerner
- final; last; ultimate; finally; in the end
- (before an adjective or verb) to the highest degree; (the) most ...; -est; (after 之[zhi1]) best or most extreme example (e.g. 世界之最[shi4 jie4 zhi1 zui4] "the greatest in the world")
- important; significant; major
- Nian Army, leading a peasant rebellion against the Qing dynasty in Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu and Anhui 1851-1868, at the same time as the Taiping Rebellion further south
- the Righteous and Harmonious Fists; the Boxers (history)
- (conjunction linking two nouns) and its ...; and their ...; and his ...; and her ...
- family member; (old) servant
- must not; may not; not to be allowed; cannot
- to seize; to capture
- 和 hé: 和 he2: (joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. [han4]); (math.) sum; to make peace; (sports) to draw; to tie; (bound form) harmonious; (bound form) Japan; Japanese和 Hé: 和 He2: surname He和 hè: 和 he4: to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence; to join in the singing; to chime in with others和 hú: 和 hu2: to complete a set in mahjong or playing cards和 húo: 和 huo2: to combine a powdery substance (flour, plaster etc) with water; Taiwan pr. [huo4]和 hùo: 和 huo4: to mix (ingredients) together; to blend; classifier for rinses of clothes; classifier for boilings of medicinal herbs
- to murder
- to hear (sth said); one hears (that); hearsay; listening and speaking
- to answer; to respond; to answer positively; to agree; to accept; to promise
- condition; circumstance; term; factor; requirement; prerequisite; qualification; situation; state; condition; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart; (used after a verb) extremely
- immediately; at once; at that moment; at the moment
- 便 pián: 便 pian2: used in 便宜[pian2 yi5]; used in 便便[pian2 pian2]; used in 便嬛[pian2 xuan1]便 biàn: 便 bian4: plain; informal; suitable; convenient; opportune; to urinate or defecate; equivalent to 就[jiu4]: then; in that case; even if; soon afterwards
- one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
- 众 Zhòng: 众 Zhong4: abbr. for 眾議院|众议院[Zhong4 yi4 yuan4], House of Representatives众 zhòng: 众 zhong4: (bound form) crowd; multitude; (bound form) many; numerous
- even; uniform
- to kneel; to go down on one's knees
- to request; to ask; request (CL:個|个[ge4])
- 于 yú: 于 yu2: to go; to take; sentence-final interrogative particle于 Yú: 于 Yu2: surname Yu于 yú: 于 yu2: (of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by
- 好处 hǎo chǔ: 好处 hao3 chu3: easy to get along with好处 hǎo chu: 好处 hao3 chu5: benefit; advantage; merit; gain; profit; also pr. [hao3chu4]
- oneself; (attributive) one's own
- 还 hái: 还 hai2: still; still in progress; still more; yet; even more; in addition; fairly; passably (good); as early as; even; also; else还 huán: 还 huan2: to pay back; to return还 Huán: 还 Huan2: surname Huan
- calamity
- inside; among; in the midst of (doing sth); during
- finally; in the end; when all is said and done; after all; to the end; to the last
- after; later; afterwards; following; later on; in the future
- how; what kind
- impossible to unravel; confusing
- unsure; uncertain; unending
- four of a kind; quads (poker)
- 倒 dào: 倒 dao4: to invert; to place upside down or frontside back; to pour out; to tip out; to dump; inverted; upside down; reversed; to go backward; contrary to what one might expect; but; yet倒 dǎo: 倒 dao3: to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow; to change (trains or buses); to move around; to resell at a profit
- laws and discipline of imperial court