- Chinese language
- emperor's son-in-law
- spiral shell; snail; conch
- soundless; silent
- strokes of a Chinese character
- beautiful woman
- silk; thread-like thing; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips; classifier: a trace (of smoke etc), a tiny bit etc
- succession (to a title); to inherit; continuing (a tradition); posterity
- to lack fidelity; (signal) distortion
- Yongzheng, reign name of Qing emperor (1722-1735)
- thirteen; 13
- soul; spirit; immortal soul (that can be detached from the body)
- court councilor
- to beg
- to kowtow; also written 磕頭|磕头[ke1 tou2]
- uncertain; remote; distant and indistinct; vague
- to match; to suit; mutually compatible
- the Qianlong era; Qianlong Emperor (1711–1799), sixth Qing emperor, princely title 寶親王|宝亲王[Bao3 Qin1 wang2], personal name 弘曆|弘历[Hong2 li4], reigned 1735–1799
- free and unfettered
- (coll.) old fellow; old codger
- deprivation; distressed; miserable
- disloyalty; infidelity
- twenty
- strong man; sumo wrestler
- 度 dù: 度 du4: to pass; to spend (time); measure; limit; extent; degree of intensity; degree (angles, temperature etc); kilowatt-hour; classifier for events and occurrences度 dúo: 度 duo2: to estimate; Taiwan pr. [duo4]
- Jiaqing Emperor (1760-1820), seventh Qing emperor, personal name 顒琰|颙琰[Yong2 yan3], reigned 1796-1820
- a lantern or torchlight procession (resembling a fiery dragon)
- hard to endure (hot weather, itchiness etc)
- reign name of Qing emperor (1821-1850)
- Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1851-1864)
- Xianfeng (1831-1861), reign name of Qing emperor, reigned from 1850-1861; Xianfeng County in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州[En1 shi1 Tu3 jia1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Hubei
- sacrifice for avoiding calamity
- amniotic fluid
- reign name of Qing emperor (1861-1875)
- (bound form) rat; mouse
- (literary) still; yet
- Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace, destroyed by the British and French army in 1860
- nowhere
- foreigner; (esp.) Westerner