- to hold (a meeting, ceremony etc)
- scene; spectacle; occasion; situation
- great; grand
- to welcome; to greet
- ceremony
- attire; clothes; dress
- Empress Dowager
- to bestow; to give
- 戴 dài: 戴 dai4: to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc); to respect; to bear; to support戴 Dài: 戴 Dai4: surname Dai
- 着 zháo: 着 zhao2: to touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding in着 zhe: 着 zhe5: aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state着 zhúo: 着 zhuo2: to wear (clothes); to contact; to use; to apply着 zhāo: 着 zhao1: a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]); trick; tactic; (dialect) okay; all right; (dialect) to put in; to add
- 花 huā: 花 hua1: flower; blossom; CL:朵[duo3],支[zhi1],束[shu4],把[ba3],盆[pen2],簇[cu4]; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful花 Huā: 花 Hua1: surname Hua花 huā: 花 hua1: flower; blossom; also pr. [wei3]
- tail feathers; plume
- cap badge (official sign of rank in Qing dynasty)
- to execute; to handle; behavior; action; conduct
- very; completely; utterly; extremely; absolutely; hundred percent; to divide into ten equal parts
- 张扬 Zhāng Yáng: 张扬 Zhang1 Yang2: Zhang Yang (1967-), PRC film director and screenwriter张扬 zhāng yáng: 张扬 zhang1 yang2: to display ostentatiously; to bring out into the open; to make public; to spread around; flamboyant; brash
- inwardly; to oneself; secretly
- to be startled; to be shocked; to be amazed
- increasingly; more and more; ever more; all the more
- to be unable to make any sense of the matter; to be at a loss
- to go to the bottom of a matter; after all; when all is said and done; (in an interrogative sentence) finally; outcome; result
- what are you doing?; what's he up to?
- next day; the morrow
- to follow; from; because of; due to; by; via; through; (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ...
- to accompany
- to inspect; to review (troops etc); military review
- to give an order; to issue an order
- all; to have; to possess; to own
- ship; boat; vessel
- play; show; performance; exhibition; to perform; to act; to demonstrate; CL:場|场[chang3]
- 都 Dū: 都 Du1: surname Du都 dōu: 都 dou1: all; both; entirely; (used for emphasis) even; already; (not) at all都 dū: 都 du1: capital city; metropolis
- lit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head); I don't understand a word (idiom); it's all Greek to me
- merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however
- 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)
- one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
- 个 gě: 个 ge3: used in 自個兒|自个儿[zi4 ge3 r5]个 gè: 个 ge4: (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual
- interlude; to cross the stage; to do sth as a mere formality; to go through the motions
- due to; as a result of; thanks to; owing to; since; because
- unable to; incapable of
- to go out to sea; (neologism) to expand into overseas markets
- to watch; to view
- battleship; warship
- to inspect; an investigation