- for a long time; long since; (dialect) in the past
- archive envelope; portfolio
- brown
- old-fashioned; out of date; obsolete; antiquated
- to become damaged
- bag
- shield (CL:面[mian4]); (currency) Vietnamese dong; currency unit of several countries (Indonesian rupiah, Dutch gulden etc)
- sickle
- ax; hatchet; CL:柄[bing3]
- KGB (Soviet secret police); member of the KGB
- United Kingdom (UK); Britain
- military situation; military intelligence
- Israel
- Mossad
- the four elements: earth, water, fire, and wind (Buddhism); the four freedoms: speaking out freely, airing views fully, holding great debates, and writing big-character posters, 大鳴大放|大鸣大放[da4 ming2 da4 fang4], 大辯論|大辩论[da4 bian4 lun4], 大字報|大字报[da4 zi4 bao4] (PRC)
- most flourishing period; Golden Age
- scope of authority; extent of power; (access etc) privileges
- Soviet Union, 1922-1991; abbr. for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) 蘇維埃社會主義共和國聯盟|苏维埃社会主义共和国联盟[Su1 wei2 ai1 She4 hui4 zhu3 yi4 Gong4 he2 guo2 Lian2 meng2]
- mechanism; gear; machine-operated; office; agency; organ; organization; establishment; institution; body; stratagem; scheme; intrigue; plot; trick
- fully deserving, without any reservations (idiom); entirely worthy (of a title, honor etc)
- politics; political
- to assassinate
- interior; inside (part, section); internal
- to mention; to raise (a subject); to refer to
- in a low voice; (speak) in whispers
- officer (military)
- model; typical case; archetype; typical; representative
- face
- (bound form) country; nation; state
- now; the present time; current; contemporary; this (day, year etc)
- Buddhist temple; mosque; government office (old)
- 口音 kǒu yīn: 口音 kou3 yin1: (linguistics) oral speech sounds口音 kǒu yin: 口音 kou3 yin5: voice; accent
- Russian (language)
- palate; roof of the mouth
- sound; noise; note (of musical scale); tone; news; syllable; reading (phonetic value of a character)
- to be born
- perilous; touch-and-go; nerve-racking; suspenseful