- stratagem; scheme
- needless to say; it goes without saying
- an exit; CL:個|个[ge4]; to speak; to export; (of a ship) to leave port
- quietly; noiselessly
- brazen; audacious; outrageous; bold; daring; fearless
- to compete with; to vie with; to counter
- to overlook; to miss; to omit
- (geology) fault (CL:道[dao4]); (fig.) gap; rupture (in the transmission of some skill); (tomography) cross-sectional
- many kinds of; multiple; diverse; multi-
- old; ancient; far away
- to slip up; to overlook by negligence; careless omission; oversight
- (bound form) to take in; to absorb; to assimilate; to capture (video or still images); (literary) to conserve (one's health); (literary) to act for
- that being the case; then; in that case
- stand for goblets
- who; which; what
- son of an official; son of nobility; your son (honorific)
- Duke Huan of Qi (reigned 685-643 BC), one of the Five Hegemons 春秋五霸
- to rise abruptly (to a towering position); to tower over; to spring up; to emerge suddenly; the emergence (e.g. of a power)
- the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period 春秋[Chun1 qiu1]
- a powerful chief of the princes of the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC); overlord; hegemon
- to lay (a foundation); to conquer (a city etc); to shoot down (a bird etc)
- 左 Zǔo: 左 Zuo3: surname Zuo左 zǔo: 左 zuo3: left; the Left (politics); east; unorthodox; queer; wrong; differing; opposite
- (literary) overlapping part of Chinese gown; lapel; sleeping mat
- all; without exception
- hair (on the head)
- in disorder; messy; Taiwan pr. [san4 luan4]
- to decorate; to adorn; to dress up; to disguise oneself
- to disturb; to cause a commotion; to harass
- stratagem; strategy; resourcefulness
- tolerance
- internal disorder; civil strife; civil unrest
- to flee; to go into exile
- outer; excluded
- 莒 Jǔ: 莒 Ju3: Zhou Dynasty vassal state in modern day Shandong Province莒 jǔ: 莒 ju3: alternative name for taro (old)
- 襄 xiāng: 襄 xiang1: (literary) to assist襄 Xiāng: 襄 Xiang1: surname Xiang
- to try; to make an attempt; to think of a way (to accomplish sth)
- to plunder; to pillage; to forcibly take
- en route
- to assassinate
- to stop; to bar the way
- the way one is following; outlet