- Penghu county (Pescadores Islands), Taiwan
- sea warfare; naval battle
- to defeat decisively; to win decisively; great victory; triumph
- to implore; to entreat
- advocate strongly
- frank; candid; straightforward
- Zhuge Liang (181–234), military leader and prime minister of Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉[Shu3 Han4] during the Three Kingdoms period; the main hero of the fictional Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义[San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4], where he is portrayed as a sage and military genius; (fig.) a mastermind
- side; adjacent place
- to vow loyalty and devotion to
- 跟前 gēn qian: 跟前 gen1 qian5: (of children, parents etc) at one's side; living with one跟前 gēn qián: 跟前 gen1 qian2: the front (of); (in) front; (in) sb's presence; just before (a date)
- biased; partial
- rare; rarely seen
- rare; seldom seen; (formal) it's a rare pleasure to see you
- harm; troubles; CL:個|个[ge4]
- fantastic; bizarre; odd; exotic; astonished
- not having undergone; without (having gone though a certain process)
- tricky and hypocritical
- fine; slim; tender
- (of a plot etc) to fall through and stand exposed
- offensive to the eye; unbecoming; unsightly; ungainly
- to be beneath one's dignity
- dignity; prestige; face; honorable; creditable; (of sb's appearance) presentable; respectable
- shape; form; pattern; morphology
- especially; particularly; even more than usual; extra; additional
- in great abundance; numerous
- to interrogate; to examine; to question
- to make life difficult for; to embarrass; unable to make it through
- to arrive; arrival; advent
- 尽可能 jǐn kě néng: 尽可能 jin3 ke3 neng2: as far as possible; to the best of one's ability尽可能 jìn kě néng: 尽可能 jin4 ke3 neng2: see 儘可能|尽可能[jin3 ke3 neng2]
- to leave behind (inadvertently); to forget; to omit; to leave out
- to miss; to leave out; to omit; to be omitted; to be missing; to slip through; to leak out; to seep away
- what's to be done
- to use one's brain
- have no way out; have no alternative; abbr. to 無奈|无奈[wu2 nai4]
- to be between two parties (as in mediation); to be in the middle; to be in between; (page layout) to be centered