- (literary) reckless; unbridled; self-indulgent; conceited; overly pleased with oneself
- old habit; former custom
- 矫 Jiǎo: 矫 Jiao3: surname Jiao矫 jiǎo: 矫 jiao3: to correct; to rectify; to redress; strong; brave; to pretend; to feign; affectation矫 jiáo: 矫 jiao2: used in 矯情|矫情[jiao2 qing5]
- burn; to roast meat for sacrifice
- (archaic) the common people
- to eat to the full
- the Second (of numbered kings); second generation (e.g. Chinese Americans)
- to cut short; extinct; to disappear; to vanish; absolutely; by no means
- to regulate; to govern; to control; to mow
- Sejong the Great or Sejong Daewang (1397-1450), reigned 1418-1450 as fourth king of Joseon or Chosun dynasty, in whose reign the hangeul alphabet was invented
- to repel the barbarians
- border; place; condition; boundary; circumstances; territory
- current political situation
- slander; slanderous report; calumny; false charge
- to weaken; to impair; to cripple
- not so; no; or else; otherwise; if not; How about ...?
- (old) Arabia; Arabian
- why; how; when; what; where
- ignorant; uneducated; ignorance
- to compare
- to become civilized; to be open-minded; (of ice) to thaw
- evening; night; late
- degree; level; extent
- low; beneath; to lower (one's head); to let droop; to hang down; to incline
- horoscope; one's fortune
- ear-splitting
- thunder and lightning
- to describe; (literary) countenance; appearance
- sound of thunder
- method; way; means (of doing sth); skill; ability; trick; wile
- to hit; to strike; to attack; to crack down on sth; blow; (psychological) shock; percussion (music)
- withered; wilted; to wither; to fade; to decay
- to hit hard
- devastation; miserable condition
- to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong; to try to turn back history; a perverse way of doing things
- popular sentiment
- to shift; to relocate; to transfer; (fig.) to shift (attention); to change (the subject etc); (medicine) to metastasize
- trend; tendency
- to comply with; to conform to; to adapt to; to go along with; in tune with
- to damage; to injure