- one's whole heart; from the bottom of one's heart
- polite greeting; civilities; to exchange pleasantries
- the moon
- dawn; daybreak
- the first light of dawn; (fig.) glimmer of hope after a dark period; a new beginning
- to cut open; to rip; to streak across (lightning, meteor etc); to pierce (scream, searchlight etc)
- curtain of night; gathering darkness
- door of a room
- slight; faint; humble
- a slight chill
- lie
- to inspect (a site); (of a dignitary) to visit; to go on an inspection tour; to survey (a scene); to scan with one's eyes
- to drill; to practice
- to build; to construct; to establish; to develop; to institute
- to anxiously await
- (of a project, organization etc) to have begun to take shape
- fighting strength
- weak; feeble; young; inferior; not as good as; (following a decimal or fraction) slightly less than
- to be brave and good at fighting (idiom)
- indolent; careless
- slow; sluggish
- condition; state; state of affairs
- navy (in Qing times)
- completely; totally; total; entire; overall; population (statistics)
- the surface of the sea; ocean surface
- vast; extensive
- warship
- to increase (e.g. one's effort)
- warship
- territory
- warship
- fundraising
- to state explicitly; to clearly indicate
- 海防 Hǎi fáng: 海防 Hai3 fang2: Haiphong, a major port city in northern Vietnam海防 hǎi fáng: 海防 hai3 fang2: coastal defense
- to relinquish; to abandon; to contribute; to donate; (bound form) tax; levy
- to set a time limit; time limit; deadline
- to extend; to stretch out
- to leap; to jump; eager; enthusiastically
- to do as one sees fit; to play it by ear (according to the circumstances)
- feasible
- to accumulate wealth; to rake in money