- the same year
- to take orders; to receive commands; to carry on (a tradition)
- to succeed to the throne; accession
- then; at once; always; (archaic) luggage rack on a chariot
- to intervene; to get involved
- (political, economic etc) affairs; work; transaction (as in a computer database)
- soldier; large army; powerful army; (old) large-scale war
- staff officer; to give advice
- to involve; to implicate; to be interrelated
- trend; tendency
- to ask about; to make some inquiries; to ask around
- secret; hidden
- (idiom) to ask a question, already knowing the answer
- 俩 liǎ: 俩 lia3: two (colloquial equivalent of 兩個|两个); both; some俩 liǎng: 俩 liang3: used in 伎倆|伎俩[ji4 liang3]
- to be located at; to be situated at; to lie
- 长子 Zhǎng zǐ: 长子 Zhang3 zi3: see 長子縣|长子县[Zhang3 zi3 Xian4]长子 zhǎng zǐ: 长子 zhang3 zi3: eldest son
- (idiom) (of two or more people) to take the same action without prior consultation; (usu. used adverbially) all (or both) of them, independently; as if by prior agreement
- out of the ordinary; unusually (good, talented etc)
- to get one's name; named (after sth)
- to claim; to state; to proclaim; to assert
- disorderly situation; chaotic state of affairs
- growing as a thicket; overgrown; breaking out everywhere (of disease, social disorder etc)
- 奸 jiān: 奸 jian1: wicked; crafty; traitor奸 jiān: 奸 jian1: to fornicate; to defile; adultery; rape
- to expel; to deport; banishment
- power; influence; a force (military, political etc)
- (literary) prophecy; omen
- 刀 dāo: 刀 dao1: knife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass (CL:把[ba3]); (slang) (loanword) dollar; classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper); classifier for knife cuts or stabs; (Internet slang) to bargain; to ask for a small discount (esp. on second-hand marketplaces)刀 Dāo: 刀 Dao1: surname Dao
- to hack to death; to kill with an ax
- heroic; gallant; valiant
- facing death; at death's door
- hat; cap; (fig.) label; bad name; CL:頂|顶[ding3]
- to set sth upright or straight; to promote an employee from part-time to full-time (or from deputy to principal); (old) to raise from concubine to wife status
- reward; prize; award
- to reckon; to calculate; to plan; to expect; to scheme
- advantageous; favorable; to benefit at others' expense; to take unfair advantage
- lit. to seek virtue and acquire it (idiom); fig. to have one's wish fulfilled
- 饮水 yǐn shǔi: 饮水 yin3 shui3: to drink water; drinking water饮水 yìn shǔi: 饮水 yin4 shui3: to give water (to animals)