- indeed; really; reliable; real; true
- blood; (fig.) lifeblood
- to place in; to put in (a position)
- under; beneath; less than
- to stop; to resist; to obstruct
- basic; fundamental; main; elementary
- etiquette; ceremony
- mother and child; parent and subsidiary (companies); principal and interest
- the scene (of a crime, accident etc); (on) the spot; (at) the site
- guardian
- infantry; foot; infantryman; foot soldier
- Russia
- imperial palace
- terrifying; shocking; dreadful
- personal safety
- to feel; to sense; to perceive
- thigh; part of a whole; portion of a sum; (finance) stock; share; strand of a thread; low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科[ke1]; classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc; classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff; classifier for bands of people, gangs etc; classifier for sudden forceful actions
- awful; dreadful; fearful; formidable; frightful; scary; hideous; horrible; terrible; terribly
- gradually
- high ranking officer in Chinese army; colonel
- to part; to leave each other; to distinguish; to tell apart; difference; distinction; in different ways; differently; separately; individually; respectively
- to inform; to notify; to announce; circular; bulletin; (scientific) journal
- to try (to see what it's like or whether one can do it)
- to commit suicide; to take one's own life
- staunch; strong
- 丧气 sàng qi: 丧气 sang4 qi5: unlucky丧气 sàng qì: 丧气 sang4 qi4: to feel disheartened
- crime; evil; sin
- to believe firmly; without any doubt
- brains; mind; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 落空 là kòng: 落空 la4 kong4: to omit; to neglect (to do sth); to miss a chance; to let an opportunity slip by落空 lào kōng: 落空 lao4 kong1: to fail to achieve something; to be fruitless落空 lùo kōng: 落空 luo4 kong1: to fail; to fall through; to come to nothing
- to grab hold of; to capture
- to be shattered; to be annihilated (of hope, illusions etc)
- to rack one's brains (idiom); to take great pains to think sth through
- (try to) overcome (hardships etc); to conquer; to put up with; to endure
- untold dangers and difficulties (idiom)
- (used in the names of grand buildings such as 百老匯大廈|百老汇大厦 Broadway Mansions (in Shanghai) or 帝國大廈|帝国大厦 Empire State Building etc)
- loudly; with a loud bang; a loud rumble
- to collapse (of building); to topple over
- to raise; to hoist; to rise
- sharp; intense; penetrating; pointed; acute (illness)