- bitter; harsh; grim; ruthless; severe; cut-throat (competition)
- The Analects of Confucius 孔子[Kong3 zi3]
- flourishing; prosperous; suddenly; abruptly
- to go against; to be contrary to; perverse; rebellious
- in a sharp, forceful voice
- look; expression
- to shake heaven and earth (idiom)
- a powerful current; a flood (often fig., e.g. a flood of ideas)
- 超人 Chāo rén: 超人 Chao1 ren2: Superman, comic book superhero超人 chāo rén: 超人 chao1 ren2: superhuman; exceptional
- let alone; to say nothing of; besides; what's more
- as follows
- to damage; to devastate; to vandalize; damage; destruction
- providence; the Will of Heaven
- to atone for one's crime; to buy freedom from punishment; redemption; atonement
- Emperor Gaozong of Tang, reign name of third Tang emperor Li Zhi 李治[Li3 Zhi4] (628-683), reigned 649-683
- Wu Zetian (624-705), Tang empress, reigned 690-705
- to seize power
- over and over again; again and again
- latrine pit; latrine
- stubborn; obstinate; unbending
- arrogant
- to care about; to mind
- to pay no attention to; not to mind
- to flare up; to break out
- brutal
- enormously proud of one's success (idiom); smug; complacent
- head high; in high spirits; to raise one's head (e.g. of neighing horse)
- lit. walking alone; prominent; unrivalled; outstanding
- satisfactory; consummate; perfect
- strategy; overall plan (esp. high-level or policy)
- lit. rich country, strong army (idiom); slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times; Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei)
- rich country; make the country wealthy (political slogan)
- socio-economic base; economic foundation
- to originate in
- to speak frankly
- ordinary; average; medium; mid-range; moderate