- to shake; to vibrate; to jolt; to quake; excited; shocked; one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing thunder; ☳
- the (rightful) emperor; "Son of Heaven" (traditional English translation)
- lit. urgent beating of gongs and drums (idiom); fig. to urgently prepare for an upcoming event
- benevolence; favor
- (literary) to be of benefit to
- heart; mind; ambition; aspiration
- modest; self-effacing; to make modest remarks
- (political) achievements; track record
- to look back; to review
- 单子 dān zi: 单子 dan1 zi5: list of items; bill; form; bedsheet单子 dān zǐ: 单子 dan1 zi3: the only son of a family; (functional programming or philosophy) monad
- public outrage
- colleague; coworker
- (bound form) Buddhist monk (abbr. for 僧伽[seng1 qie2])
- taxation services; state revenue service
- to occupy a post currently; current (president etc); incumbent; (coll.) current boyfriend (girlfriend, spouse)
- predecessor; ex-; former; ex (spouse etc)
- (abbr.) stationed in Beijing
- commander-in-chief, the equivalent of king in Chinese chess
- to confer a title an official position
- the dead; the deceased
- third year in junior middle school
- ceremony; celebration
- to distinguish (between different things); to make distinctions clear
- 11 am-1 pm (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times)
- to sound a bell; to raise the alarm
- 吾 Wú: 吾 Wu2: surname Wu吾 wú: 吾 wu2: (old) I; my
- a shout; fig. opinion or demand, esp. expressed by a group
- to listen to information; to get the news; to believe what one hears
- Kang Youwei (1858-1927), Confucian intellectual, educator and would-be reformer, main leader of the failed reform movement of 1898
- to implement; to carry out; to put into practice
- the reformist faction
- person who sticks to old ways; a diehard; a conservative