- head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc
- we; us; ourselves; our
- to know from experience; to learn through experience; to realize; understanding; experience
- this (person)
- to be cynical; to be embittered
- determination; resolution; determined; firm and resolute; to make up one's mind; CL:個|个[ge4]
- not able to see clearly
- society
- dark; darkly; darkness
- origin; root (cause)
- ill luck; misfortune
- to regard as
- Heaven; Providence; God; the sky above; to fly skywards; (euphemism) to die; to pass away; the previous day (or days)
- pitiful; pathetic; to have pity on
- court eunuch; palace eunuch
- after; later; afterwards; following; later on; in the future
- to consolidate; to strengthen; firm; solid; stable
- position; status; place; CL:個|个[ge4]
- court (of king or emperor)
- Danei, a district in Tainan 台南|台南[Tai2 nan2], Taiwan
- (idiom) to form a clique for self-serving purposes
- these
- to be everywhere
- informer; snitch; spy; scout; (cosmetics) eye line
- if; supposing that
- someone; people; anyone; there is someone there; occupied (as in restroom)
- half of sth
- henchmen
- by fair means or foul; by hook or by crook; unscrupulously
- maybe; perhaps; might; possibly; or
- open; overt; public; to make public; to release
- secret; private; confidential; clandestine; a secret
- (pronoun) this; (adjective) this
- to put in order; to tidy up; to pack; to repair; (coll.) to sort sb out; to fix sb
- to fall; to drop; to lag behind; to lose; to go missing; to reduce; fall (in prices); to lose (value, weight etc); to wag; to swing; to turn; to change; to exchange; to swap; to show off; to shed (hair); (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc)
- so as not to; so as to avoid
- to threaten; to menace
- power; influence
- it is said that; reportedly
- to place in a certain position; to assign to a job; to plant; resettlement (old)
- everybody; all (guests, colleagues etc); all of you
- princes and dukes; aristocrat
- this; these
- to rob; to plunder; to seize by force; to coerce; calamity; abbr. for kalpa 劫波[jie2 bo1]
- Empress Dowager Cixi or Ts'u Hsi (1835-1908), regent 1861-1908
- (bound form) to confer; to bestow; to grant; (literary) gift; favor; Taiwan pr. [si4]