- to return to the capital
- to negotiate (with); to have dealings (with)
- each country; every country; various countries
- to negotiate peace
- 令 líng: 令 ling2: used in 脊令[ji2 ling2]; used in 令狐[Ling2 hu2] (Taiwan pr. [ling4])令 lǐng: 令 ling3: classifier for a ream of paper令 lìng: 令 ling4: to order; to command; an order; warrant; writ; to cause; to make sth happen; virtuous; honorific title; season; government position (old); type of short song or poem
- the Qing Dynasty name for the coastal provinces of Liaoning, Hebei, and Shandong
- Zhili, a province from Ming times until 1928, roughly corresponding to present-day Hebei
- 为 wéi: 为 wei2: as (in the capacity of); to take sth as; to act as; to serve as; to behave as; to become; to be; to do; by (in the passive voice)为 wèi: 为 wei4: because of; for; to
- full powers; total authority; plenipotentiary powers
- to handle; to transact; to conduct
- to agree to and sign (a treaty etc)
- peace treaty
- matters; arrangements
- to return to
- the Qing court (as government of China)
- princes and dukes; aristocrat
- to trust; to have confidence in
- allied armies
- command; commander-in-chief
- Waldersee (name); Alfred Graf Von Waldersee (1832-1904), commander-in-chief of the Eight-Nation Alliance 八國聯軍|八国联军[Ba1 guo2 Lian2 jun1]
- 非 Fēi: 非 Fei1: abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africa非 fēi: 非 fei1: to not be; not; wrong; incorrect; non-; un-; in-; de-; to reproach; to blame; (coll.) to insist on; simply must
- to arrive; arrival; advent
- cannot; should not; must not
- face; prestige
- to obliterate completely; to vanish from the face of the earth
- to have no other option but to ...; to have to; to be forced to
- to enter the capital; to go to Beijing
- affair; matter; thing; business; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- to transfer (duties to sb else); to give instructions; to tell (sb to do sth); to explain; to give an account; to brief; to confess; to account for oneself; (jocular) to come to a bad end
- to finish; to end; to complete
- 后 Hòu: 后 Hou4: surname Hou后 hòu: 后 hou4: empress; queen; (archaic) monarch; ruler后 hòu: 后 hou4: back; behind; rear; afterwards; after; later; post-
- (bound form) self; oneself; from; since; naturally; as a matter of course
- to continue; to proceed with; to go on with
- more and more
- regular; according to standards
- at last; in the end; finally; eventually
- 坐 zùo: 坐 zuo4: to sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, airplane etc); to bear fruit坐 Zùo: 坐 Zuo4: surname Zuo
- 上 shàng: 上 shang4: (bound form) up; upper; above; previous; first (of multiple parts); to climb; to get onto; to go up; to attend (class or university); (directional complement) up; (noun suffix) on; above上 shǎng: 上 shang3: used in 上聲|上声[shang3 sheng1]
- palanquin with eight carriers; (fig.) lavish treatment
- again; once more; re-; further; beyond this point of time; (before an adjective) more; then (after sth, and not until then); no matter how ... (followed by an adjective or verb, and then (usually) 也[ye3] or 都[dou1] for emphasis); (used to introduce additional information, as in 再則|再则[zai4 ze2], 再就是[zai4 jiu4 shi4] etc); (literary) to reappear; to reoccur
- plus; to put in; to add; to add on; to add into; in addition; on top of that
- just recently; just a moment ago
- to run off in a great panic (idiom)
- 时 shí: 时 shi2: o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period时 Shí: 时 Shi2: surname Shi
- already
- 大 dài: 大 dai4: see 大夫[dai4 fu5]大 dà: 大 da4: big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
- different; distinct; not the same; not alike