- to meet by accident
- original; originally; at first; it goes without saying; of course
- extremely; exceedingly
- to regard as important; to value
- 将 jiāng: 将 jiang1: will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把[ba3])将 jiàng: 将 jiang4: (bound form) a general; (literary) to command; to lead; (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)将 qiāng: 将 qiang1: to desire; to invite; to request
- 以 Yǐ: 以 Yi3: abbr. for Israel 以色列[Yi3 se4 lie4]以 yǐ: 以 yi3: to use; by means of; according to; in order to; because of; at (a certain date or place)
- guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin
- (of a ruler) to order sb to commit suicide (in lieu of execution)
- still (as before); had better; unexpectedly; or
- in front of; facing; (in the) presence (of)
- to intercede; to plead for sb else
- 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
- 过 Gūo: 过 Guo1: surname Guo过 gùo: 过 guo4: to cross; to go over; to pass (time); to celebrate (a holiday); to live; to get along; excessively; too-过 guo: 过 guo5: (experienced action marker)
- already; to stop; then; afterwards
- to be reborn; to recover; to come back to life; to regenerate
- to leave (a message etc); to retain; to stay; to remain; to keep; to preserve
- life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc
- 好 hǎo: 好 hao3: good; appropriate; proper; all right!; (before a verb) easy to; (before a verb) good to; (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so; (verb complement indicating completion); (of two people) close; on intimate terms; (after a personal pronoun) hello好 hào: 好 hao4: to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
- that's fine; may as well; (reduplicated) regardless of whether ... or ...
- to encourage
- Empress Dowager
- to vow loyalty and devotion to
- to hate; to regret
- to act arbitrarily regardless of the rules; to mess with sth; to make a hash of things; to cause trouble
- (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
- both; both of them; neither
- to recall; to think of; to call to mind
- contribution; meritorious service; credit
- merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however
- anger
- continually; without a break; ceaselessly
- animal hide; leather; to reform; to remove; to expel (from office)
- to go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last; just passed; to send; to remove; to get rid of; to reduce; to be apart from in space or time; to die (euphemism); to play (a part); (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth; (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker); (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
- an official position; a job in the bureaucracy
- to expel; to deport; banishment
- 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
- 京 jīng: 京 jing1: capital city of a country; big; algebraic term for a large number (old); artificial mound (old)京 Jīng: 京 Jing1: surname Jing; short name for Beijing 北京[Bei3 jing1]; Gin or Jing, ethnic minority of China, descendants of ethnic Vietnamese people living mainly in Guangxi; Kinh, the ethnic majority in Vietnam
- to collapse; to fall into ruins; death of king or emperor; demise
- (of flowing water or time) to pass by; to pass away; to die
- more and more
- compassionate; gentle; merciful; kind; humane
- 安 ān: 安 an1: (bound form) calm; peaceful; to calm; to set at ease; safe; secure; in good health; content; satisfied (as in 安於|安于[an1 yu2]); to place (sb) in a suitable position (job); to install; to fix; to fit; to bring (a charge against sb); to harbor (certain intentions); ampere (abbr. for 安培[an1 pei2])安 ān: 安 An1: surname An
- to design; to plan; design; plan
- stratagem; scheme
- to entrap; to set up; to frame (up); to make false charges against