- to gather (in a crowd); to converge; to swarm
- to hide; to cover up; to conceal
- outside (a group etc); not connected (with an event etc); external
- city
- to close (a door); to turn off (light, electrical equipment etc)
- vagrant; unemployed person; rōnin (wandering masterless samurai)
- to impose martial law; to impose emergency measures
- sandbag; punching bag (trad. filled with sand)
- mechanism; gear; machine-operated; office; agency; organ; organization; establishment; institution; body; stratagem; scheme; intrigue; plot; trick
- to guard
- to sever; to break off
- see 大城縣|大城县[Da4 cheng2 Xian4]; see 大城鄉|大城乡[Da4 cheng2 Xiang1]
- the marketplace (i.e. the world of business and commerce)
- panic-stricken
- no good; not good for; not beneficial
- (of a commanding officer) to keep watch; to oversee
- defenders
- calamity
- armed forces; troops; CL:支[zhi1]
- to beat back; to repel
- quietly; noiselessly
- to retire; to remove; to withdraw; to evacuate
- military division level commander; teacher
- to give up defending; to yield; to surrender
- to seize the opportunity; to strike while the iron is hot
- to retreat
- see 保定市[Bao3 ding4 Shi4]
- Zhang Zizhong (1891-1940), Chinese National Revolutionary Army general during the Second Sino-Japanese War
- to yell
- anxious and perplexed; uneasy and confused; suspicious and fearful