- rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2]); (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde; (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
- to earn a living by performing (typically in informal or public settings)
- riot; rebellion; revolt
- a skill; mastery of a trade; by oneself; without outside help
- 粗 cū: 粗 cu1: (of sth long) wide; thick; (of sth granular) coarse; (of a voice) gruff; (of sb's manner etc) rough; crude; careless; rude粗 cū: 粗 cu1: remote; distant
- to move; to transport; to use; to apply; fortune; luck; fate
- to fight, esp. with hands; wrestling (as a sport); to wrestle; to wrestle (against fate, with a problem etc); to capture prey
- to appreciate; to enjoy; to admire
- to leave home to make one's way in the world; to leave the life one knows to seek success
- popularity; presence of people; liveliness
- (idiom) to issue a call for action; to raise one's hand and issue a rousing call
- to assert; to claim
- operator (math.)
- to prophesy with supernatural accuracy (idiom); to have an incredible foresight
- wedding feast; liquor drunk at a wedding feast
- to call on sb; to drop in; to visit sb's home
- big stick (policy etc)
- to have no opportunity; no way (of doing sth); no chance; no connection; not placed (in a competition); (in pop lyrics) no chance of love, no place to be together etc
- to have secret ties with; to be in covert communication with (the enemy etc); to engage in an illicit sexual relationship; adultery
- charge; accusation; stigma; bad name; stained reputation
- ranks; troops; queue; line; procession; CL:個|个[ge4],支[zhi1],條|条[tiao2]
- (accounting) to balance the books; to do the accounts; (fig.) to settle an account; to get one's revenge
- lost battle; defeat
- (idiom) to indulge in flights of fancy; to let one's imagination run wild
- to urge; to exhort
- disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc; one of the 28 constellations of ancient Chinese astronomy
- family member; (old) servant
- bold; open-minded; heroic
- 奸 jiān: 奸 jian1: wicked; crafty; traitor奸 jiān: 奸 jian1: to fornicate; to defile; adultery; rape
- tea prepared in large quantity using inexpensive tea leaves
- to rape and murder
- disappointed; to lose hope; to despair
- April; fourth month (of the lunar year)
- lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom); fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one's shoulders
- omen; portent; sign