- overflowing; excessive; indiscriminate
- for a long time; long since; (dialect) in the past
- lit. the disease has attacked the vitals (idiom); fig. beyond cure; the situation is hopeless
- stage; degree (to which a situation has evolved); a (usu. bad) situation; leeway
- corruption
- something that everybody knows
- frequently; constantly; regularly; often; day-to-day; everyday; daily
- to sell; to betray; to spare no effort; to show off or flaunt
- to treat as; to regard as; to look upon as
- main; principal; major; primary
- to take in; income; revenue; CL:筆|笔[bi3],個|个[ge4]
- source (of information etc); origin
- those
- to rake in (money); to plunder; to milk people dry
- with this; thereby; thus; because of this
- to regain; to retake; to take back; to withdraw; to revoke
- investment; to invest
- among the people; popular; folk; non-governmental; involving people rather than governments
- to have; to have always had
- 三 Sān: 三 San1: surname San三 sān: 三 san1: three; 3
- 年 Nián: 年 Nian2: surname Nian年 nián: 年 nian2: year; CL:個|个[ge4]年 nián: 年 nian2: grain; harvest (old)
- 清 qīng: 清 qing1: (of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted; clear; distinct; to clear; to settle (accounts)清 Qīng: 清 Qing1: Qing (Wade-Giles: Ch'ing) dynasty of China (1644–1911); surname Qing
- prefectural magistrate (during Tang to Qing times)
- hundred thousand
- snowflake
- silver; silver-colored; relating to money or currency
- imperial examination
- to be born of; to come from; family background; class origin
- 混 hún: 混 hun2: Taiwan pr. [hun4]混 hùn: 混 hun4: to mix; to mingle; muddled; to drift along; to muddle along; to pass for; to get along with sb; thoughtless; reckless
- deficiency; lack; scarce; vacant post; to run short of
- to spend money
- to bribe; to get (luggage) ready; to put in order; to organize things; (baseball) RBI (run batted in)
- cannot; should not; must not
- whole; entire; total
- officialdom; bureaucracy
- it could even be said
- dark; darkly; darkness
- so much; this much; how much?; this way; like this
- to be influenced
- already at an earlier time
- a common occurrence (idiom)
- rich and powerful (idiom)
- for the most part; many; most; the greater part; mostly
- absolutely unrestrained; unbridled; without the slightest scruple
- 广 yǎn: 广 yan3: "house on a cliff" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 53), occurring in 店, 序, 底 etc广 guǎng: 广 guang3: wide; numerous; to spread广 Guǎng: 广 Guang3: surname Guang
- to monopolize; to seize; to take into one's arms; to embrace; to fasten (with a rope etc); to take on (responsibility etc); to canvass
- wealth; money