- first year in junior middle school
- (idiom) to distort right and wrong; to deliberately mislead
- to investigate
- according to the facts
- coup by Dowager Empress Cixi 慈禧太后[Ci2 xi3 tai4 hou4] ending the 1898 attempt to reform the Qing dynasty
- to involve; to implicate; to be interrelated
- to make a breakthrough; to break through; to breach (military)
- very early in the morning; in the wee hours
- ear-splitting (idiom); deafening
- daybreak
- lit. agitated sitting or standing (idiom); restless; fidgety
- superfluous; cumbersome; a burden on sb; a nuisance to sb; to inconvenience; to tie sb down; long-winded (of writing); also pr. [lei2 zhui5]
- captive
- pavilion (usu. two-storied); cabinet (politics); boudoir; woman's chamber; rack; shelf
- to stop; to halt; to cease
- to imprison; to lock up (in jail)
- the back; the rear; the last bit; behind; near the end; at the back; later; afterwards
- messy hair and dirty face; bad appearance
- the flames of war; the ravages of war
- clean; neat
- to go easy; unhurried; calm; Taiwan pr. [cong1 rong2]
- to disdain to do sth; to think sth not worth doing; to feel it beneath one's dignity
- to abandon
- southeast
- direction; orientation
- continuous; unceasing
- cannot maintain (sth); unable to keep; more likely than not; may well
- manhole cover (more formally, 窨井蓋|窨井盖[yin4 jing3 gai4])
- to ease (tension); to alleviate; to moderate; to allay; to make more mild
- to seek survival; to possess the will to live
- to pledge one's life
- to support; frame; rack; framework; classifier for planes, large vehicles, radios etc