- hard to avoid; difficult to escape from; will inevitably
- foreigner; (esp.) Westerner
- captive
- to rise; to raise; to get up; to set out; to start; to appear; to launch; to initiate (action); to draft; to establish; to get (from a depot or counter); verb suffix, to start; starting from (a time, place, price etc); classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance; classifier for groups: batch, group
- to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart; (used after a verb) extremely
- heart; mind; intention; center; core; CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4]
- to walk; to go; to run; to move (of vehicle); to visit; to leave; to go away; to die (euph.); from; through; away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走[che4 zou3]); to change (shape, form, meaning)
- 景 Jǐng: 景 Jing3: surname Jing景 jǐng: 景 jing3: (bound form) scenery; circumstance; situation; scene (of a play); (literary) sunlight
- 旗 qí: 旗 qi2: flag旗 qí: 旗 qi2: banner; flag; (in Qing times) Manchu (cf. 八旗[Ba1 qi2]); administrative subdivision in inner Mongolia equivalent to 縣|县[xian4] county; CL:面[mian4]
- pavilion (usu. two-storied); cabinet (politics); boudoir; woman's chamber; rack; shelf
- west side; west face
- suddenly; all of a sudden
- to stop; to halt; to cease
- footstep; step
- two; 2; (Beijing dialect) stupid
- at this time; at this moment
- to imprison; to lock up (in jail)
- the back; the rear; the last bit; behind; near the end; at the back; later; afterwards
- small; tiny; few; young
- long-term; for a protracted period
- early; morning; Good morning!; long ago; prematurely
- messy hair and dirty face; bad appearance
- on the body; at hand; among
- clothes; CL:件[jian4],套[tao4]
- severe; strict
- road; path (CL:條|条[tiao2],股[gu3]); (bound form) way; reason; principle; (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization; (Daoism) the Way; the Dao; to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel); (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words); classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process; (old) circuit (administrative division)
- to take unfair advantage of; to deceive; to cheat
- I; me; my
- the flames of war; the ravages of war
- original idea; real intention; etymon
- 你 nǐ: 你 ni3: you (informal, as opposed to courteous 您[nin2])你 nǐ: 你 ni3: you (Note: In Taiwan, 妳 is used to address females, but in mainland China, it is not commonly used. Instead, 你 is used to address both males and females.)
- to carry; to take away
- fear; to dread; I'm afraid that...; perhaps; maybe
- on the road; on the way; en route
- light; easy; gentle; soft; reckless; unimportant; frivolous; small in number; unstressed; neutral; to disparage
- 倘 tǎng: 倘 tang3: if; supposing; in case倘 cháng: 倘 chang2: used in 倘佯[chang2 yang2]
- to meet by chance (usually with misfortune); classifier for events: time, turn, incident
- disgrace; dishonor; to insult; to bring disgrace or humiliation to; to be indebted to; self-deprecating; Taiwan pr. [ru4]
- ancestor; forebear
- still (as before); had better; unexpectedly; or