- to take time; time-consuming
- to waste; to spend; to consume; to squander; news; (coll.) to delay; to dilly-dally
- to transfer (for a specific purpose); to allocate; (computing) to invoke (a command, an application etc)
- fully armed; armed to the teeth; fig. fully equipped
- to guard; to defend
- to employ; to hire
- poverty-stricken; poor
- to guard; to defend; to keep watch; to abide by the law; to observe (rules or ritual); nearby; adjoining
- elder brother and his wife
- to die of an illness
- ancestral tomb
- stand-in; substitute; body double; stuntman; scapegoat; fall guy; to stand in for sb else
- to load
- (bound form) to doubt; to suspect
- home town; native place
- lucky; auspicious; propitious; rayl (acoustical unit)
- to enter a door; to go in; to learn the basics of a subject; to join one's husband's household upon marriage
- to bury
- desolate
- 宏伟 Hóng wěi: 宏伟 Hong2 wei3: see 宏偉區|宏伟区[Hong2 wei3 Qu1]宏伟 hóng wěi: 宏伟 hong2 wei3: grand; imposing; magnificent
- east side; east face
- portrait; to do a portrait of sb
- Wuchang Uprising of October 10th, 1911, which led to Sun Yat-sen's Xinhai Revolution and the fall of the Qing dynasty
- termination; to finish; to end; to conclude; to close
- Republic of China
- official's salary (in feudal times)
- 笼 lǒng: 笼 long3: to envelop; to cover; (used in 籠子|笼子[long3 zi5]) large box; Taiwan pr. [long2]笼 lóng: 笼 long2: enclosing frame made of bamboo, wire etc; cage; basket; steamer basket
- to have nothing to do; to idle one's time away (idiom)
- to fall; to drop; to decline; to deteriorate; to go downhill
- manor; feudal land; villa and park
- Republic of China (1912-1949); used in Taiwan as the name of the calendar era (e.g. 民國六十年|民国六十年 is 1971, the 60th year after 1911)
- influential officials; bigwigs
- manner; style; panache
- to squander money; extravagant; prodigal; free and easy; agile