- top secret; hush-hush
- Brocade Uniform Guard, imperial bodyguard and secret police force of the Ming emperors
- to go out and come in; entrance and exit; expenditure and income; discrepancy; inconsistent
- to examine; to investigate; to censor out; censorship
- (lit.) name not encountered in the classics; unknown (person); nobody
- profound theory (in Daoism and Buddhism); mysterious principles
- true motive; true feelings
- palm of the hand; sole of the foot; paw; horseshoe; to slap; to hold in one's hand; to wield
- inside and outside; domestic and foreign; approximately; about
- to detest; hatred
- husband's father; father-in-law; grandpa; grandad; (old) form of address for a eunuch
- handle; (fig.) information that can be used against sb
- very fierce
- to say goodbye; to take one's leave
- (bound form) right; right-hand side; (bound form) (politics) right of center; (bound form) (old) west; (literary) the right side as the side of precedence
- eyelid
- moonlight
- wolf; CL:匹[pi3],隻|只[zhi1],條|条[tiao2]
- to pant; to gasp for breath
- to compose oneself; to concentrate one's attention
- chair
- to act willfully and make a scene; to make trouble
- (idiom) to vanish like smoke in thin air; to disappear
- to kill to the last one (idiom); to exterminate; to eradicate; ruthless
- to keep the peace; to patch up a quarrel (idiom)
- hurriedly
- to kowtow; to kneel and worship
- as cold as ice and frost (idiom, usually of woman); icy manner; frigid
- secretly; inwardly
- to retrieve; to redeem
- there is not much left
- to have a try
- stone carving; carved sculpture
- lit. heart of wolf and lungs of dog (idiom); cruel and unscrupulous