- the areas to the north and south of the Yellow River (in the Spring and Autumn Period); Mesopotamia
- (literary) unafraid
- guidelines; what to do (under given circumstances)
- priority; whether sth is urgent
- overhaul
- engineering; an engineering project; project; undertaking; CL:個|个[ge4],項|项[xiang4]
- several million
- annual repairs and maintenance
- state treasury; public funds
- 涨 zhǎng: 涨 zhang3: to rise (of prices, rivers)涨 zhàng: 涨 zhang4: to swell; to distend
- weir
- 海口 hǎi kǒu: 海口 hai3 kou3: estuary; coastal inlet; river mouth; seaport; see also 誇海口|夸海口[kua1 hai3 kou3]海口 Hǎi kǒu: 海口 Hai3 kou3: see 海口市[Hai3 kou3 Shi4]
- a support; to raise; to bolster; to jack up
- to flow backwards (of water, because of flood, tide, wind etc); reverse flow; to back up (sewage)
- Hongze Lake in Jiangsu province
- 坝 bà: 坝 ba4: (used in place names) plain; flatland; (dialect) sandbar; shoal坝 bà: 坝 ba4: dam; dike; embankment; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- to submerge; to drown; to flood; to drown out (also fig.)
- to instruct sb personally
- 筑 Zhù: 筑 Zhu4: short name for Guiyang 貴陽|贵阳[Gui4 yang2]筑 zhù: 筑 zhu4: five-string lute; Taiwan pr. [zhu2]筑 zhù: 筑 zhu4: to build; to construct; to ram; to hit; Taiwan pr. [zhu2]
- dam; dike
- 浚 jùn: 浚 jun4: to dredge (a river)浚 xùn: 浚 xun4: used in 浚縣|浚县[Xun4 Xian4] (the name of a place in Henan)
- irrigation channel
- Gueiren, a district in Tainan 台南|台南[Tai2 nan2], Taiwan
- dike; Taiwan pr. [ti2]
- awn (of cereals); arista (of grain); tip (of a blade); Miscanthus sinensis (type of grass)
- Jing River
- mountain stream
- see 大通區|大通区[Da4 tong1 Qu1]; see 大通回族土族自治縣|大通回族土族自治县[Da4 tong1 Hui2 zu2 Tu3 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]
- (of a project) to be completed
- bank; shore; beach; coast
- to overflow; to be brimming over