- to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart; (used after a verb) extremely
- destructive; harmful; damaging
- to loathe; to hate; disgusted with sth
- in the country; rural; pastoral
- landlord; landowner; host
- to annex; to take over; to acquire
- 土地 tǔ dì: 土地 tu3 di4: land; soil; territory; CL:片[pian4],塊|块[kuai4]土地 tǔ di: 土地 tu3 di5: local god; genius loci
- poor people
- unemployment; to lose one's job
- peasant; farmer
- to tax by force and extort levies (idiom); to screw taxes out of the people by force
- truth; CL:個|个[ge4]
- regime; political power
- root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; CL:條|条[tiao2]; radical (chemistry)
- foundation
- firm; secure
- will; shall; to be going to
- happy; joyful
- base; foundation; basis; basic; fundamental
- to bear (an expense, a responsibility etc); burden
- farming; to work the land
- field; farmland; cropland; plight; extent
- simple and crude
- house; building (single- or two-story); apartment; room; CL:棟|栋[dong4],幢[zhuang4],座[zuo4],套[tao4],間|间[jian1]
- regardless of weather conditions; rain, hail or shine
- fifth
- (idiom) (when followed by 不[bu4]) at no time; never (Note: 無時無刻不|无时无刻不[wu2 shi2 wu2 ke4 bu4] therefore means "at no time not ...", i.e. "at all times".); (when not followed by 不[bu4]) at all times; always
- information; news; message
- national defense
- southeast
- coastal
- Japanese pirates (in 16th and 17th century)
- fierce; violent; vigorous; intense
- to invade and harass
- to invade
- see 懷來縣|怀来县[Huai2 lai2 Xian4]
- to impose martial law; to impose emergency measures
- to observe a religious fast; to abstain from food or certain activities before a ritual
- to pray; prayer
- to pray for; to appeal
- long life
- to be corrupt; corruption; to embezzle
- green vegetables; Chinese cabbage
- tight; strict; close at hand; near; urgent; tense; hard up; short of money; to tighten
- fist; (of a product, service, project etc) flagship; key; core