- Shun (c. 23rd century BC), mythical sage and leader
- good; beautiful
- loving affection (in a couple); conjugal love
- to hurry to (somewhere)
- curb; roadside; wayside
- bamboo; CL:棵[ke1],根[gen1]
- stripe; streak
- Xiang Yu the Conqueror (232-202 BC), warlord defeated by first Han emperor
- to fight over; to contest; to vie over
- to stick onto; stalemate; gridlock; to agglutinate
- to hesitate over what move to make (idiom); to waver; to shilly-shally
- good horse
- to grab; to catch; to arrest; to snatch; to scratch
- harm; troubles; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to split up; to divide; to break up; fission; schism
- to set up an independent regime; to secede; segmentation; division; fragmentation
- Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD); refers to the Western Han and Eastern Han
- to regret not having met earlier (idiom); It is nice to meet you finally.; It feels like we have known each other all along.
- to find a place for; to help settle down; to arrange for; undisturbed; peaceful
- appropriate; proper
- how?; how about?; how was it?; how are things?
- in many ways; from all sides
- to throw; to fling; to swing; to leave behind; to throw off; to dump (sb)
- to make a firm resolution
- satisfactory; consummate; perfect
- Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- auspicious; lucky
- to produce in abundance; to be rich in
- chief; first; brightest and best
- imperial strategic adviser; expert on strategy
- faithful official
- just; fair; to permit; to allow
- (Cantonese) to simmer; to cook over a slow fire
- 燕 Yān: 燕 Yan1: Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning; north Hebei; the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕[Qian2 Yan1] (337–370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕[Hou4 Yan1] (384–409), Southern Yan 南燕[Nan2 Yan1] (398–410), Northern Yan 北燕[Bei3 Yan1] (409–436); surname Yan燕 yàn: 燕 yan4: swallow (family Hirundinidae)
- Zhu Di, personal name of third Ming Emperor Yongle 永樂|永乐[Yong3 le4]
- 靖 jìng: 靖 jing4: (bound form) peaceful; (bound form) to pacify; to suppress靖 Jìng: 靖 Jing4: surname Jing
- rather die than submit (idiom)
- Zhu Qizhen, personal name of sixth and eighth Ming emperor Zhengtong 正統|正统[Zheng4 tong3], afterwards Tianshun Emperor 天順|天顺[Tian1 shun4] (1427-1464), reigned 1435-1449 and 1457-1464
- building; construction; civil engineering
- 堡 bǎo: 堡 bao3: (bound form) fortress; stronghold; (often used to transliterate -berg, -burg etc in place names); (bound form) burger (abbr. for 漢堡|汉堡[han4 bao3])堡 bǔ: 堡 bu3: village (used in place names)堡 pù: 堡 pu4: used in place names