Vocabulary: 家
- current trends; the present situation; how things are going
- at intervals of; every (so often)
- curb; roadside; wayside
- bamboo fence
- 服 fú: 服 fu2: clothes; dress; garment; to serve (in the military, a prison sentence etc); to obey; to be convinced (by an argument); to convince; to admire; to acclimatize; to take (medicine); mourning clothes; to wear mourning clothes服 fù: 服 fu4: classifier for medicine: dose; Taiwan pr. [fu2]
- 济 jì: 济 ji4: to cross a river; to aid or relieve; to be of help济 Jǐ: 济 Ji3: used in place names associated with the Ji River 濟水|济水[Ji3 Shui3]; surname Ji济 jǐ: 济 ji3: used in 濟濟|济济[ji3 ji3]
- to make (wine or spirits); (fig.) to lead to (a bad result)
- to such an extent as to; down to; up to
- officers and soldiers
- to be determined
- to hand over
- regime; political power
- dissipated; rotten; decaying
- soldiers at the city walls (idiom); fig. at a critical juncture
- 扯 chě: 扯 che3: to pull; to tear; (of cloth, thread etc) to buy; to chat; to gossip; (coll.) (Tw) ridiculous; hokey扯 chě: 扯 che3: to pull; to tear
- temple
- rifle; CL:把[ba3],枝[zhi1]
- temple; ancestral shrine; CL:座[zuo4]; temple fair; great imperial hall; imperial
- one side; other; different; lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂[dao1], 亻[ren2] etc)
- friendly advice; words spoken on sb's behalf; a good word; kind words; words that sound fine but are not followed up with actions
- to cancel; to call off; to revoke; to rescind
- contrary; opposite; backwards; to go against; to oppose; to betray; to rebel
- thief; robber; (bound form) traitor; subversive; (bound form) evil; wicked; sly; shifty; devious; (literary) to harm; to injure; (coll.) extremely; insanely; damn (common in NE China and Taiwan)
- to change a name; to rename
- military division level commander; teacher
- charges or facts about a crime; the nature of the offense
- chamber of commerce
- group; organization; team; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 帅 Shuài: 帅 Shuai4: surname Shuai帅 shuài: 帅 shuai4: (bound form) commander-in-chief; (bound form) to lead; to command; handsome; graceful; dashing; elegant; (coll.) cool!; sweet!; (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)
- public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal)
- to implore; to entreat
- political; politics; government
- leading (role); heading list of signatories; leading actors (in a show); starring
- alley