- to make inquiries; to try to find out; to pry
- my country; our country
- military situation; military intelligence
- to shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc); (medicine) to metastasize
- angry; indignant; wrath; ire
- 怒 nù: 怒 nu4: anger; fury; flourishing; vigorous怒 Nù: 怒 Nu4: Nu ethnic group
- to consider; to deliberate; to fill up a cup to the brim
- 复 fù: 复 fu4: to go and return; to return; to resume; to return to a normal or original state; to repeat; again; to recover; to restore; to turn over; to reply; to answer; to reply to a letter; to retaliate; to carry out复 fù: 复 fu4: to repeat; to double; to overlap; complex (not simple); compound; composite; double; diplo-; duplicate; overlapping; to duplicate复 fù: 复 fu4: to reply to a letter
- Ministry of Revenue in imperial China
- (Ming and Qing dynasties) vice-minister of one of the Six Boards; (also an official title in earlier dynasties)
- bachelor's degree; person holding a university degree
- (bound form) to ally oneself with; to unite; to combine; to join; (bound form) (poetry) antithetical couplet
- 袁 yuán: 袁 yuan2: long robe (old)袁 Yuán: 袁 Yuan2: surname Yuan
- (of the day) long
- the few are no match for the many; heavily outnumbered; facing impossible odds (idiom)
- to be utterly defeated; to be routed
- (literary) foreign aggression; external threat; humiliation inflicted by outsiders
- internal disorder; civil strife; civil unrest
- (idiom) there will be no end of trouble in the future
- foreigner
- to argue; to reason with sb; to talk sense; to be reasonable
- not in such a way as to; not likely to
- internal affairs (of a country)
- to call into question; to challenge (the truth or validity of)
- authenticity; truthfulness; veracity; reality; validity
- to jab; to poke; to stab; (coll.) to sprain; to blunt; to fuck (vulgar); to stand; to stand (sth) upright; stamp; seal
- sore spot; place that hurts
- (idiom) to become enraged over a perceived humiliation
- traitor (to China)
- to issue; to promulgate; to award
- imperial edict
- lightning; electricity; electric (bound form); to get (or give) an electric shock; phone call or telegram etc; to send via telephone or telegram etc
- to notify; to inform; notice; notification; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to have one's wishes fulfilled
- suitable; adequate; ready; settled
- major event; major political event (war or change of regime); major social event (wedding or funeral); (do sth) in a big way; CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi
- Zhang Zhidong (1837-1909), prominent politician in late Qing
- steady; stable; stability; to stabilize; to pacify
- portion; part of; subset
- situation; state (of affairs)
- 法 fǎ: 法 fa3: law; method; way; to emulate; (Buddhism) dharma; (abbr. for 法家[Fa3 jia1]) the Legalists; (physics) farad (abbr. for 法拉[fa3 la1])法 Fǎ: 法 Fa3: France; French; abbr. for 法國|法国[Fa3 guo2]; Taiwan pr. [Fa4]法 fǎ: 法 fa3: law