- to garrison; to defend (a frontier); soldier garrisoned at a frontier
- 古 Gǔ: 古 Gu3: surname Gu古 gǔ: 古 gu3: ancient; old; paleo-
- to receive in no small measure
- tyranny; despotic rule
- to harm (sb's health) with narcotics etc; to poison (people's minds); to corrupt; pernicious influence
- calamity and chaos; devastating disorder; great turmoil
- periphery; rim; perimeter; surroundings; (computing) (attributive) peripheral; merch (abbr. for 周邊商品|周边商品[zhou1 bian1 shang1 pin3])
- south; southern direction; (in China) southern regions, often referring to areas south of the Yangtze River
- assistance; aid; to help; to assist
- to rise; to spring up; to burgeon; to be aroused; to come into vogue
- element; factor; CL:個|个[ge4]
- sentence; clause; phrase; classifier for phrases or lines of verse
- official name of a nation (includes dynastic names of China: 漢|汉[Han4], 唐[Tang2] etc)
- before; prior to; ago; previously; beforehand
- usually; in many cases; more often than not
- the whole world at peace (idiom); peace and prosperity
- stable; calm; settled; to stabilize; Valium; diazepam
- Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty (141-87 BC)
- thorough; penetrating; to pervade; to pass through
- temple name of a deceased Chinese emperor
- (literary) to push up one's sleeves; (literary) to reject; to resist; (literary) to seize; to steal; (literary) to perturb; Taiwan pr. [rang2]
- to draw up; to formulate
- the absolute beginning
- to correct; to amend; to put right; correction; CL:個|个[ge4]
- temple; ancestral shrine
- apparatus; rites; appearance; present; ceremony
- canon; law; standard work of scholarship; literary quotation or allusion; ceremony; to be in charge of; to mortgage or pawn
- to hang (down); droop; dangle; bend down; hand down; bequeath; nearly; almost; to approach
- to esteem; to think highly of; to accord importance to; to revere
- (Confucianism) rites and music (the means of regulating society)
- first day of the first lunar month; (old) calendar promulgated by the first emperor of a dynasty
- name of job in Imperial bureaucracy; official position
- rule; regulation
- reference material (used in scholarly study)
- institution; institutional
- all; to have; to possess; to own
- to be located at
- first; most important; primary; foremost
- to put in an important position
- original; originally; at first; it goes without saying; of course
- poor and feeble
- to rely on; to depend on; by means of; thanks to; sth that one relies on
- lightning strike; thunderbolt
- to break; to destroy; to devastate; to ravage; to repress
- 打 dǎ: 打 da3: a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike; to fight; (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")打 dá: 打 da2: (loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]