- to draw on local resources; using materials at hand
- (legal) case; incident; record; file; table
- mound
- altar
- 蹲 dūn: 蹲 dun1: to crouch; to squat; to stay (somewhere)蹲 cún: 蹲 cun2: (dialect) to sprain one's foot or leg due to a sudden impact or landing
- ceremony; collection of classical writings
- (idiom) (of eyes) bright and full of spirit; shining with vitality and presence
- to run one's eyes over; to sweep one's eyes over
- righteousness; virtuous cause; a woman's marriage; main points of a piece of writing
- Long live (the king, the revolution etc)!; Your Majesty; His Majesty
- torrential rain; rainstorm; CL:場|场[chang2],陣|阵[zhen4]
- to turn up without being invited; unsolicited
- dumpling; pot-sticker; CL:個|个[ge4],隻|只[zhi1]
- impatient; to lose patience
- opposite bank (of a body of water)
- lit. chickens flying and dogs jumping (idiom); fig. in chaos; in disarray
- to convene (a conference or meeting); to convoke; to call together
- pessimistic
- even if; even though
- (idiom) to no avail; of no use
- Purple Mountain in suburbs of Nanjing, with Ming tombs and Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum
- lit. to besiege 魏[Wei4] and rescue 趙|赵[Zhao4] (idiom); fig. to relieve a besieged ally by attacking the home base of the besiegers
- to wait for an opportunity; to watch for one's chance
- saliva; spittle
- (of spittle, blood, bullets etc) to fly through the air
- 召 Shào: 召 Shao4: surname Shao; name of an ancient state that existed in what is now Shaanxi Province召 zhào: 召 zhao4: to call together; to summon; to convene; temple or monastery (used in place names in Inner Mongolia)
- to ask sb a question; question
- to approve of; to agree with (an opinion, action etc); to endorse
- to arrange; to tidy up; to sort out; to straighten out; to list systematically; to collate (data, files); to pack (luggage)
- to revere
- see 臨江市|临江市[Lin2 jiang1 Shi4]
- to avoid; to evade; to keep away from
- inferior; disadvantaged
- to long for; to crave for; to greatly desire
- land-based; on land
- section; district