- quarter (hour); moment; to carve; to engrave; to cut; oppressive; classifier for short time intervals
- barracks; army camp
- lit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom); fig. to be annihilated; to vanish in a puff of smoke
- to search (a place, a database, online etc); to search for (sth)
- third-rate; inferior
- actor; actress; performer
- core; nucleus
- indifferent; insignificant
- valuable; costly; expensive
- rival in love
- a man; a male; men; CL:個|个[ge4]
- fervent
- desire; wish
- to borrow; (used in combination with 給|给[gei3] or 出[chu1] etc) to lend; to make use of; to avail oneself of; (sometimes followed by 著|着[zhe5]) by; with
- shiver
- happy; cheerful
- to admire
- 说法 shūo fa: 说法 shuo1 fa5: way of speaking; wording; formulation; one's version (of events); statement; theory; hypothesis; interpretation说法 shūo fǎ: 说法 shuo1 fa3: to expound Buddhist teachings
- very red; red through and through; to blush (deep red)
- to tremble; to shake; to shiver
- fretful; impatient
- resourceful; full of stratagems
- branch; subsection; to subdivide
- (wuxia) sect leader; (fig.) person in charge; head; leader; proprietor
- evil cult
- to cross; to surmount; to transcend
- to rely on help from sb
- insignificant
- what is true and what is false; (to get to know) the real situation
- art of politics; political tricks (often derog.); power play; to play at politics; underhand trickery
- culture; civilization; cultural; CL:個|个[ge4],種|种[zhong3]
- to seep in; to influence; to nurture; influence; training
- to put forward plans and ideas (also derogatory); to give advice (idiom)
- to plant; to grow (a crop); to cultivate
- foodstuff; cereals; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- to build; to construct
- lit. to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom); fig. to raise an army; to recruit new staff
- base of operations