- unusual; abnormal
- to see (the same thing) over and over again; to see, to one's surprise, (sth happen suddenly)
- street; CL:條|条[tiao2]; subdistrict; residential district
- bleak; desolate; (economics) in a slump; sluggish; depressed
- to close securely; tightly closed; secure
- former days; the past
- endless stream of horse and carriages (idiom); heavy traffic
- (idiom) people coming and going; bustling with activity
- seat of government; government repository (archive); official residence; mansion; presidential palace; (honorific) Your home; prefecture (from Tang to Qing times)
- doorway; gate; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to become
- extremely; exceedingly
- cold and cheerless; desolate; deserted
- oneself; (attributive) one's own
- (courteous) home; residence (not one's own)
- to receive; to entertain; to host (guests, visitors or clients)
- 大 dài: 大 dai4: see 大夫[dai4 fu5]大 dà: 大 da4: big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
- son of an official; son of nobility; your son (honorific)
- 克 Kè: 克 Ke4: abbr. for 克羅地亞|克罗地亚[Ke4 luo2 di4 ya4], Croatia; (Tw) abbr. for 克羅埃西亞|克罗埃西亚[Ke4 luo2 ai1 xi1 ya4], Croatia克 kè: 克 ke4: to be able to; to subdue; to restrain; to overcome; gram; Tibetan unit of land area, about 6 ares克 Kè: 克 Ke4: Ke (c. 2000 BC), seventh of the legendary Flame Emperors, 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God克 kè: 克 ke4: to subdue; to overthrow; to restrain
- to fix; to set; to make definite; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc); to book (tickets etc); to order (goods etc); to congeal; to coagulate; (literary) definitely
- 据 jū: 据 ju1: used in 拮据[jie2 ju1]据 jù: 据 ju4: according to; to act in accordance with; to depend on; to seize; to occupy
- (of an emperor) to pass away
- (not only ...) but also; moreover; in addition; furthermore
- yesterday; previous day; first day
- to separate; to partition; to stand or lie between; at a distance from; after or at an interval of
- day; sky; heaven
- unexpectedly; to one's surprise; go so far as to
- to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned
- vexed; distressed
- fear; to dread; I'm afraid that...; perhaps; maybe
- the back; the rear; the last bit; behind; near the end; at the back; later; afterwards
- to set up; to establish
- (bound form) to leave behind
- imperial decree; purport; aim; purpose
- 子 zi: 子 zi5: noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"子 zǐ: 子 zi3: son; child; seed; egg; small thing; 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the rat; viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]; ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north); subsidiary; subordinate; (prefix) sub-
- Puyi, personal name of the last Qing emperor (reigned as child 1909-1911), the subject of Bertolucci's biopic The Last Emperor
- to inherit; to succeed to (the throne etc); to carry on (a tradition etc)
- (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items
- to act as regent
- admittedly (it's true that...)
- after all; all in all; when all is said and done; in the final analysis
- (bound form) whole; complete; entire; (before a measure word) whole; (before or after number + measure word) exactly; (bound form) in good order; tidy; neat; (bound form) to put in order; to straighten; (bound form) to repair; to mend; to renovate; (coll.) to fix sb; to give sb a hard time; to mess with sb; (dialect) to tinker with; to do sth to
- 对头 dùi tóu: 对头 dui4 tou2: correct; normal; to be on good terms with; on the right track; right对头 dùi tou: 对头 dui4 tou5: (longstanding) opponent; enemy; inimical; adversary; opponent
- power; authority
- hard to tell (i.e. hard to judge or hard to predict); cannot bring oneself to say it