- 西 Xī: 西 Xi1: the West; abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2]; Spanish西 xī: 西 xi1: west
- 红海 Hóng Hǎi: 红海 Hong2 Hai3: Red Sea红海 hóng hǎi: 红海 hong2 hai3: (neologism) highly competitive market (contrasted with 藍海|蓝海[lan2 hai3])
- Somalia
- Magellan (1480-1521), Portuguese explorer
- pirate
- (coll.) wife
- to employ; to hire
- destroyer (warship)
- a naval escort; to convoy
- fear; to dread; I'm afraid that...; perhaps; maybe
- weakly and without strength (idiom); dispirited
- warship; military naval vessel; CL:艘[sou1]
- alternative (plan, arrangement, strategy etc)
- to empathize; to allow (for sth); to show understanding; to appreciate
- (bound form) to bear; to endure; to withstand
- corrosion; to corrode (degrade chemically); to rot; corruption
- Siberian pit viper (Gloydius halys); pit viper
- bazooka; rocket launcher
- starlight
- individual soldier; (literary) isolated military unit, cut off from reinforcements
- hearing; listening ability
- to arise; to come into being; to come about; to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate
- 天方夜谭 tiān fāng yè tán: 天方夜谭 tian1 fang1 ye4 tan2: fantasy story天方夜谭 Tiān fāng Yè tán: 天方夜谭 Tian1 fang1 Ye4 tan2: The Arabian Nights (classic story)
- contented; pleased with one's position
- two; 2; (Beijing dialect) stupid
- initial; preliminary; tentative
- top of a building
- a plain; ping, unit of area equal to approx. 3.3058 square meters (used in Japan and Taiwan)
- to shake hands
- to leave; to part from; to bid farewell to; to say goodbye to
- to suffer; to sustain (loss, misfortune)
- to mistreat; to maltreat; to abuse; mistreatment; maltreatment
- idea; concept; philosophy; theory
- (bound form) to sprout; to bud; (coll.) cute; adorable (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 萌え "moe", affection for an anime or manga character)
- to float on the current; to drift along or about; rafting
- to conduct; to hold (an event)
- series; set
- Tokyo, capital of Japan; Tonkin (northern Vietnam during the French colonial period)
- Meiji, Japanese era name, corresponding to the reign (1868-1912) of the Meiji emperor