- title of respect for the queen mother or the emperor's father; nickname for Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后[Ci2 xi3 tai4 hou4]
- all the people
- owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games)
- only natural; as it should be; certainly; of course; without doubt
- rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2]); (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde; (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
- high-minded and righteous person; patriot; loyalist
- (line of) thought; thinking
- way; method; manner; mode; pattern (of behavior etc); CL:種|种[zhong3]
- to vow; to swear an oath
- to agree; to consent; to be willing to
- not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc)
- (after a verb or adjective) one who (is) ...; (after a noun) person involved in ...; -er; -ist; (used after a number or 後|后[hou4] or 前[qian2] to refer to sth mentioned previously); (used after a term, to mark a pause before defining the term); (old) (used at the end of a command); (old) this
- to vow; to pledge; to swear
- 行 xíng: 行 xing2: (bound form) to walk; to go; to travel; (literary) trip; journey; visit; (bound form) temporary; makeshift; (bound form) current; in circulation; (bound form) to do; to perform; capable; competent; all right; OK!; will do; behavior; conduct (Taiwan pr. [xing4]); (literary) about to; soon行 háng: 行 hang2: (bound form) row; line; (bound form) line of business; trade; profession; (bound form) commercial firm; (bound form) to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age); (in data tables) row; (Tw) column; classifier for rows or lines行 héng: 行 heng2: used in 道行[dao4 heng2]
- anyway; in any case; to come over from the enemy's side
- to achieve; to implement; to realize; to bring about
- it doesn't matter
- to calculate; to figure out; to include; to count in; to count; to be valid; to carry weight; to regard as; to consider (to be ...)
- 个 gè: 个 ge4: (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual个 gě: 个 ge3: used in 自個兒|自个儿[zi4 ge3 r5]
- 若 rùo: 若 ruo4: to seem; like; as; if若 rě: 若 re3: used in 般若[bo1 re3]; used in 蘭若|兰若[lan2 re3]
- efficacious; useful
- 多少 dūo shǎo: 多少 duo1 shao3: number; amount; somewhat多少 dūo shao: 多少 duo1 shao5: how much?; how many?; (phone number, student ID etc) what number?
- to have bad luck; to be out of luck
- 发 fā: 发 fa1: to send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue; to develop; to make a bundle of money; classifier for gunshots (rounds)发 fà: 发 fa4: hair; Taiwan pr. [fa3]
- 重 chóng: 重 chong2: to repeat; repetition; again; re-; classifier: layer重 zhòng: 重 zhong4: heavy; serious; to attach importance to
- oath; vow; to swear; to pledge
- guarantee; to guarantee; to ensure; to safeguard; to pledge; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to promise; to undertake to do something; commitment
- see 事到如今[shi4 dao4 ru2 jin1]
- to have no other option but to ...; to have to; to be forced to
- resolutely; firmly; ferociously; ruthlessly
- 刀 dāo: 刀 dao1: knife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass (CL:把[ba3]); (slang) (loanword) dollar; classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper); classifier for knife cuts or stabs; (Internet slang) to bargain; to ask for a small discount (esp. on second-hand marketplaces)刀 Dāo: 刀 Dao1: surname Dao
- to insert; to stick in; to plug in
- scabbard
- inside; inner; internal; within; interior
- seething; fuming
- to leave; to walk away; to beat it; to move aside
- to get; to obtain; to receive
- court; imperial household; dynasty
- feeling; impression; sensation; to feel; to perceive
- satisfied; pleased; to one's satisfaction
- many; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd; how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]); (bound form) multi-; poly-
- to turn one's head; to turn around
- to call out to; to greet; to say hello to; to inform; to take care of; to take care that one does not
- to leap; to spring; to throw oneself
- to leave; to exit
- in an instant; in a flash