- to eliminate; to remove
- that's fine; may as well; (reduplicated) regardless of whether ... or ...
- to answer; to respond; to answer positively; to agree; to accept; to promise
- after all; all in all; when all is said and done; in the final analysis
- same; ordinary; so-so; common; general; generally; in general
- 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)
- careful; attentive; cautious; to be careful; to look out; (dialect) thrifty; frugal
- really isn't
- honest; sincere; well-behaved; naive; gullible
- accommodating; easy to push around
- person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc); (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting
- to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy; to absorb; to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
- (fig.) denial of entry; flat refusal; cold rebuff
- tone of voice; the way one speaks; manner of expression; tone
- haven't; hasn't; doesn't exist; to not have; to not be
- how?; what?; why?
- 会 kuài: 会 kuai4: (bound form) to reckon accounts会 hùi: 会 hui4: can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet; to get together; meeting; gathering; (suffix) union; group; association; (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. [hui3])
- 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
- afraid; frightened; to fear
- to cheat; to swindle; to pretend; to feign; to draw sb out; to try to extract information by deceit or bluff
- this trip
- to act (in a play); to perform; to put on (a performance); performance; concert; show; CL:場|场[chang3],次[ci4]
- An Dehai (-1869), the Qing equivalent of Rasputin, all-powerful court eunuch with the dowager empress Cixi 慈禧太后[Ci2 xi3 tai4 hou4], executed in 1869 by her rival Empress Mother Empress Dowager Ci'an 慈安皇太后
- second; number two; next; secondary
- so as not to; so as to avoid
- 上 shǎng: 上 shang3: used in 上聲|上声[shang3 sheng1]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
- trap; snare; trick
- now; this moment
- sedan chair; palanquin; litter
- see 通州區|通州区[Tong1 zhou1 Qu1]
- 当 dāng: 当 dang1: (onom.) dong; ding dong (bell)当 dāng: 当 dang1: to be; to act as; manage; withstand; when; during; ought; should; match equally; equal; same; obstruct; just at (a time or place); on the spot; right; just at当 dàng: 当 dang4: at or in the very same...; suitable; adequate; fitting; proper; to replace; to regard as; to think; to pawn; (coll.) to fail (a student)
- forced labor of feudal tenant (corvée); bailiff of feudal yamen
- 追 dūi: 追 dui1: to sculpt; to carve; musical instrument (old)追 zhūi: 追 zhui1: to chase; to pursue; to look into; to investigate; to reminisce; to recall; to court (one's beloved); to binge-watch (a TV drama); retroactively; posthumously
- after; later; afterwards; following; later on; in the future
- very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
- awkward; difficult; uncomfortable; not agreeing; at loggerheads; gauche
- with great difficulty; very difficult
- to go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield; to go beyond; to exceed; (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result); classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
- capital of a country
- to recall (a product, an ambassador etc)
- but; however; (used for emphasis) indeed
- have to; cannot but
- to return to
- imperial palace
- to meet face to face; to meet in person