- to fail an exam
- emperor; government; official
- to fail the imperial exams; to flunk
- lit. gifted scholar, beautiful lady (idiom); fig. pair of ideal lovers
- home town; native place
- pit; hollow; depression; (mining) pit; shaft; tunnel; (literary) to bury alive; (coll.) to cheat; to scam; to screw over
- 京畿 Jīng jī: 京畿 Jing1 ji1: Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, surrounding Seoul and Incheon, capital Suweon City 水原市[Shui3 yuan2 shi4]京畿 jīng jī: 京畿 jing1 ji1: capital city and its surrounding area
- the (rightful) emperor; "Son of Heaven" (traditional English translation)
- remote; far from civilization
- south of the five ranges; old term for south China, esp. Guangdong and Guangxi
- mountain village
- to be both a farmer and a scholar; to work the land and also undertake academic studies
- family of officials; family with connections to the bureaucracy (i.e. the middle classes in imperial China)
- luxurious; sumptuous; lavish
- to roll up; to curl up; (of dust etc) to swirl up
- sleeve
- to pound (grain); beat
- laundry
- to prepare a meal; to cook
- husband's parents; parents-in-law; (dialect) a couple; husband and wife
- to die; to depart this mortal coil
- stepmother
- amiable manner; pleasant countenance
- to do one's filial duty
- poor; inadequate; deficient; garrulous
- (of relations) joyous and harmonious
- trifling; trivial; tedious; inconsequential
- out of (supply); spent; exhausted (used up); depleted
- lit. firewood, rice, oil and salt (idiom); fig. life's daily necessities
- (idiom) to compare favorably with men in terms of ability, bravery etc; to be a match for men; lit. not conceding to men (beard and eyebrows)
- firm; unwavering
- Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi
- to arrest; to catch a criminal
- to flee; to go into exile (from prison)
- (literary) East China Sea; (literary) Japan
- mainstay; pillar; prop; backbone
- to search a house and confiscate possessions
- Qing troops; Manchu soldiers