- tribute
- to open access; to establish contact; to remove a block; to put through (a phone connection)
- checkpoint (for taxation, security etc); (fig.) barrier; hurdle; red tape; CL:道[dao4]; Taiwan pr. [guan1ka3]
- plenipotentiary; fully authorized representative
- protocol; treaty
- 签 qiān: 签 qian1: to sign one's name; to write brief comments on a document; visa签 qiān: 签 qian1: inscribed bamboo stick (used in divination, gambling, drawing lots etc); small wood sliver; label; tag
- ocean; vast; foreign; silver dollar or coin
- to blackmail; to extort
- the Great Powers (history)
- to compensate
- customs (i.e. border crossing inspection); CL:個|个[ge4]
- to pay back in full; to redeem a debt
- annual interest
- 厘 lí: 厘 li2: one hundredth; centi-厘 Lí: 厘 Li2: Li (c. 2000 BC), sixth of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God, also known as Ai 哀[Ai1]
- principal and interest (on a loan)
- 划 huá: 划 hua2: to row; to paddle; profitable; worth (the effort); it pays (to do sth)划 huà: 划 hua4: to delimit; to transfer; to assign; to plan; to draw (a line); stroke of a Chinese character划 huá: 划 hua2: to cut; to slash; to scratch (cut into the surface of sth); to strike (a match)
- East Jiaomin Lane, a street in central Beijing and its surrounding district, formerly known as the Peking Legation Quarter, where foreign diplomatic missions were located during the period 1861–1959
- ethnic Chinese person or people
- reality; practice; practical; realistic; real; actual
- to slaughter; (fig.) to ride roughshod over; to take advantage of (others)
- railroad; railway; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- to remove; to dismantle
- faithful official
- to bow down to everything sb says or does; to act submissively in order to ingratiate oneself
- not to care
- with one's heart set on speeding home (idiom)
- late stage; later period
- to play a critical role (idiom); influential
- troops under one's command; subordinate
- aides and advisors of top officials
- to come into contact with; to have dealings
- to pass away; to die
- Qing County or Qingxian, a county in Cangzhou City 滄州市|沧州市[Cang1 zhou1 Shi4], Hebei
- (old) dowager; old lady (title for the mother of a noble or an official)
- money grubber; miser
- to profiteer; to gain some underhand advantage
- wealth; riches
- to pile up; to heap up; a mass; pile; heap; stack; large amount
- avaricious; greedy; rapacious; insatiable; avid
- popular piece of doggerel; common phrase repeated as a jingle