- prince
- to make a supreme effort; at all costs
- to persuade; persuasion; to advise
- to believe; to be convinced; to accept as true
- to set up; to establish
- to reside; to dwell; to live in a place; resident in
- to erect (a tent etc); to prick up (one's ears); to raise (one's eyebrows); to stick up (one's thumb); to turn up (one's collar); (of a bird) to puff up (one's feathers)
- 圣 kū: 圣 ku1: (literary) to dig with persistent effort (e.g. to gather wild vegetables)圣 shèng: 圣 sheng4: (bound form) peerless (in wisdom, moral virtue, skill etc); (bound form) peerless individual; paragon (sage, saint, emperor, master of a skill etc); (bound form) holy; sacred
- loyal and righteous; fealty; loyalty
- 士 Shì: 士 Shi4: surname Shi士 shì: 士 shi4: member of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor; honorific; soldier; noncommissioned officer; specialist worker
- sorcery
- repeatedly; time and again
- fabricated
- efficacious; effective; (of a prediction) accurate; correct
- dissenting religious sect (idiom); heretical school of opinion; dissident group
- reliable
- to have no alternative; frustrated; exasperated; helpless; (conjunction) but unfortunately
- to control
- (idiom) lacking strength and support
- to feel suddenly; to realize abruptly
- waist; small of the back; (fig.) backing
- hard; stiff; solid; (fig.) strong; firm; resolutely; uncompromisingly; laboriously; with great difficulty; good (quality); able (person); (of food) filling; substantial
- to declare war
- to besiege; to beleaguer; to attack from all sides; to jointly speak or write against sb
- consulate; diplomatic mission
- to defend; to protect (against)
- the Qing dynasty equivalent of the Foreign Office
- forceful (criticism etc); to use strong words
- to ask questions; to interrogate
- fundamental; basic; root; simply; absolutely (not); (not) at all; CL:個|个[ge4]
- official document
- Japan
- clerk of a law court
- China fir; Cunninghamia lanceolata; also pr. [sha1]
- Germany
- minister; diplomat performing ambassadorial role in Qing times, before regular diplomatic relations
- 林 lín: 林 lin2: (bound form) woods; forest; (bound form) circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people); (bound form) a collection (of similar things)林 Lín: 林 Lin2: surname Lin; Japanese surname Hayashi
- baron
- to kill
- face light up with delight (idiom); to beam with joy
- to be forced to suffer in silence; unable to speak of one's bitter suffering
- to get in touch with; to contact; to stay in contact (with); liaison; (math.) connection
- 国 Gúo: 国 Guo2: surname Guo国 gúo: 国 guo2: country; nation; state; (bound form) national
- to form; to make up; to constitute
- armed forces; troops; CL:支[zhi1]