- to increase steadily; to grow with each passing day
- to get angry
- to officially launch (a policy, program etc); to appear on stage; to appear publicly; (of a bar girl) to leave with a client
- malice; evil intention
- to ravage; to ruin
- dignity; sanctity; honor; majesty
- to mention; to raise (a subject); to refer to
- country or countryside; native place; home village or town; township (PRC administrative unit)
- historical communal administrative and self-defence system created during the Song Dynasty and revived during the Republican Era, in which households are grouped in jia 甲[jia3] and jia are grouped in bao 保[bao3]
- each; every
- first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; (used for an unspecified person or thing); first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc); letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; armor plating; shell or carapace; (of the fingers or toes) nail; bladed leather or metal armor (old); ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old); civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old); ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
- to send (on a mission); to dispatch
- owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games)
- to be in charge of (a major area of responsibility); person in charge; manager; (old) butler (of a rich family); chief steward
- clothes; CL:件[jian4],套[tao4]
- eating and drinking; food and drink; diet
- (idiom) to follow one's heart's desires; to do as one pleases
- woman; female
- to be nothing difficult; to be a cinch
- to be gravely mistaken (idiom)
- rustic; village; countryside
- 毛 máo: 毛 mao2: hair; feather; down; wool; mildew; mold; coarse or semifinished; young; raw; careless; unthinking; nervous; scared; (of currency) to devalue or depreciate; classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角[jiao3] , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分[fen1])毛 Máo: 毛 Mao2: surname Mao
- to massacre; to slaughter
- still; yet; to remain; (literary) frequently; often
- 万户 wàn hù: 万户 wan4 hu4: ten thousand houses or households万户 Wàn Hù: 万户 Wan4 Hu4: ducal title meaning lord of 10,000 households; also translated as Marquis
- don't tell me ...; could it be that...?
- 本事 běn shì: 本事 ben3 shi4: source material; original story本事 běn shi: 本事 ben3 shi5: ability; skill
- in a short while; all at once; all of a sudden
- as the proverb says; as they say...
- slave
- brutal; vicious; ruthless
- (idiom) (it) goes without saying; can well be imagined
- to go to bed; to sleep
- smoke; mist; vapor; smog; fumes
- misty
- needless
- to dispute; to refute
- to analyze; analysis; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to exercise (a right etc)
- power; authority
- (followed by a verb phrase, then – optionally – 不可, or 不行 etc) must
- 累 lěi: 累 lei3: to accumulate; to involve or implicate (Taiwan pr. [lei4]); continuous; repeated累 lèi: 累 lei4: tired; weary; to strain; to wear out; to work hard累 léi: 累 lei2: rope; to bind together; to twist around
- to cough up blood; (coll.) (used figuratively to indicate an extreme degree of anger or frustration etc)
- cannot; should not; must not
- (idiom) in deadly earnest; deadpan
- gentleman