- pit of fire; fig. living hell
- Three Kingdoms period (220–280) in Chinese history; any of several Three Kingdoms periods in Korean history, esp. from 1st century AD to unification under Silla 新羅|新罗[Xin1 luo2] in 658
- Liu Bei (161-223), warlord at the end of the Han dynasty and founder of the Han kingdom of Shu 蜀漢|蜀汉 (c. 200-263), later the Shu Han dynasty
- to ambush; to lie in wait for; to lie low; ambush
- lit. to cross five passes and slay six generals (idiom); fig. to surmount all difficulties (on the way to success)
- (old) itinerant political adviser; (fig.) lobbyist; go-between; mouthpiece; also pr. [shuo1 ke4]
- to make up; to fabricate
- false name; pseudonym; alias; pen name; the Japanese kana scripts; hiragana 平假名[ping2 jia3 ming2] and katakana 片假名[pian4 jia3 ming2]
- to envelop; to wrap; to enclose
- profound; significant; meaningful
- azure
- geology
- research institute; graduate studies; graduate school; CL:個|个[ge4]
- many; quite a lot; much better
- to tour; to travel
- vanity
- copy; duplicate; transcript; (gaming) dungeon; instance; private team mission
- to undertake advanced studies; to take a refresher course
- critical; boundary
- to limit; to restrict; (bound form) limit; bound
- to be born
- uterus; womb
- to choose (literary)
- excessive; undue; unduly; overly
- family planning
- to have no right or ability to interfere in sth; it's none of your business!
- to protest; protest
- smoothly; without a hitch
- embryo
- to decide by vote; to vote
- can't help it; can't bear it
- lingering fear; fear after the event; post-traumatic stress
- to vote; to cast a vote
- (fig.) malign agent who manipulates from behind the scenes; hidden hand; (Tw) mechanic; blue-collar worker; manual laborer
- external; outside; outward appearance
- to call it...; known as...