- to follow after; immediately afterwards
- to choke with emotion; to choke with sobs
- to take out; to extract; to draw out
- (used by an emperor or king) I; me; we (royal "we"); (literary) omen
- succession (to a title); to inherit; continuing (a tradition); posterity
- to gather; to unite; to unify; whole
- ready to start on sth; about to act
- to bear; to carry (on one's back); to turn one's back on; to be defeated; negative (math. etc)
- to entrust to
- high ranking official (old); term of endearment between spouses (old); (from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old); honorific (old)
- to assist; to aid; supplementary; auxiliary
- great merit; great service
- to feel deeply
- carrying pole and the loads on it; burden; task; responsibility; CL:副[fu4]
- an exit; CL:個|个[ge4]; to speak; to export; (of a ship) to leave port
- needle; pin; injection; stitch; CL:根[gen1],支[zhi1]
- sad; sorrowful
- to despair; to give up all hope; desperate; desperation
- 刺 cī: 刺 ci1: (onom.) whoosh刺 cì: 刺 ci4: thorn; sting; thrust; to prick; to pierce; to stab; to assassinate; to murder
- to wake up; to be awake; to become aware; to sober up; to come to
- to look around
- tree stump
- sentinel
- not a soul in sight (idiom)
- firm and persistent; unswerving determination
- each; respective; apiece
- a load on one's mind; worry; CL:宗[zong1],樁|桩[zhuang1]
- five viscera and six bowels (TCM)
- to run out; to escape
- mother
- to waken
- suddenly; abruptly
- prehistoric times; (attributive) prehistoric
- rare animal; mythical animal; monster
- place at the imperial court, where emperor handled government affairs, gave orders etc
- mechanism; gear; machine-operated; office; agency; organ; organization; establishment; institution; body; stratagem; scheme; intrigue; plot; trick
- to hold the pen; to do the actual writing