- tough as nails; formidable; kick-ass; plucky
- to burst in
- art of war; military strategy and tactics
- massive military force
- barely; only; merely; only (this and nothing more)
- rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2]); (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde; (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
- sooner or later
- ancestral tomb
- 刨 bào: 刨 bao4: carpenter's plane; to plane (woodwork); to shave off; to peel (with a potato peeler etc)刨 páo: 刨 pao2: to dig; to excavate; (coll.) to exclude; not to count; to deduct; to subtract
- (Buddhism) divine retribution; karma
- person with a poor sense of direction
- to take risks; to take chances; foray; adventure
- profession; role (acting)
- taboo; to avoid as taboo; to abstain from
- the eve; the night before
- lit. people of talent appreciate one another (idiom); fig. to feel an affinity with (sb); to feel a bond with
- France
- (dialect) younger sister; girl
- firstly, ...
- power; influence; potential; momentum; tendency; trend; situation; conditions; outward appearance; sign; gesture; male genitals
- prison
- name; designation; item; rubric; (formal usage) fame
- 100 million
- harboring unfathomable motives (idiom)
- 琢磨 zhúo mó: 琢磨 zhuo2 mo2: to carve and polish (jade); to polish and refine a literary work琢磨 zúo mo: 琢磨 zuo2 mo5: to ponder; to mull over; to think through; Taiwan pr. [zhuo2 mo2]
- to go down south
- worker; CL:個|个[ge4],名[ming2]
- (coll.) factory; mill; yard; depot
- wages; pay; CL:份[fen4]
- to go to school; to attend school
- to remarry