- highly effective; fruitful
- to raise (animals); to bring up (children); to keep (pets); to support; to give birth
- to reach adulthood; an adult
- to expire; to run out; to come to an end
- subject; branch of learning; course; academic discipline
- to live in widowhood (formal)
- to deceive; to cheat
- to take (sth proffered)
- see 永興縣|永兴县[Yong3 xing1 Xian4]
- large quantities of
- to learn by rote
- 正统 zhèng tǒng: 正统 zheng4 tong3: orthodoxy; tradition; orthodox; traditional; principles of dynastic succession; (of an heir) legitimate正统 Zhèng tǒng: 正统 Zheng4 tong3: Zhengtong Emperor, reign name of sixth Ming Emperor Zhu Qizhen 朱祁鎮|朱祁镇[Zhu1 Qi2 zhen4] (1427-1464), reigned 1435-1449, temple name Yingzong 英宗[Ying1 zong1]
- to consider oneself to be (sth positive)
- theory; CL:個|个[ge4]; to argue; to take notice of
- old-fashioned; old-school
- to act in collusion (idiom)
- heresy
- to vanish without trace (idiom); to lie low
- supporter
- gang; faction
- to fight; to engage in combat; struggle; battle; CL:場|场[chang2],次[ci4]
- (idiom) (of one's speech) eloquent; articulate
- to start writing or painting (lit. "wet the brush")
- several; three or five
- convention; usual practice
- to smash; to pound; to fail; to muck up; to bungle
- every voice gives praise (idiom); with an extensive public reputation
- Foster or Forster (name); Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864), American composer
- housefly; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- 恶心 è xīn: 恶心 e4 xin1: bad habit; vicious habit; vice恶心 ě xīn: 恶心 e3 xin1: nausea; to feel sick; disgust; nauseating; to embarrass (deliberately)
- to stand aside and do nothing (idiom); to take no part in
- lit. defeated, the ground blanketed with bodies (idiom); fig. to suffer a crushing defeat
- to concoct; to invent; to fabricate; to produce; to process; processing and curing (Chinese medicine)
- bastard; scoundrel; rogue
- to be defeated on the battlefield; to be beaten in a contest
- good luck
- (idiom) just as in the past; as before; continuing as always
- to contribute funds