- wife's family (before marriage)
- joint name; combined name
- (coll.) older sister's husband
- eldest brother; big brother (polite address for a man of about the same age as oneself); gang leader; boss
- soul; spirit
- to fail to pay sufficient attention to; to be negligent in regard to; to be lacking in
- member of council; (literary) to take care of matters
- just as; precisely as
- to equal; to be tantamount to
- clear; distinct; evidently; clearly
- complexion; look
- to be determined
- alarm bell
- (speak) without thinking the matter through
- to report (to one's superior)
- across one's whole face
- petition (submitted to a superior)
- to act for sb else; to act on sb's behalf; an agent; a diplomatic representative; a chargé d'affaires
- awkward; embarrassed
- 支吾 zhī wú: 支吾 zhi1 wu2: to resist; to deal with支吾 zhī wu: 支吾 zhi1 wu5: to respond evasively or vaguely; to elude; to stall
- to reconsider
- in a pique; sulky; cross
- to continue in one's own way (idiom)
- evening mist; fig. declining spirits; lethargy
- model; fine example
- to approve of; to endorse; to acknowledge; to recognize; to identify oneself with
- appliance; tool; weapon; shackles; also pr. [jie4]
- to offer a reward; bounty
- code of conduct; conventions; common practice; routine (medical procedure etc)
- lit. warp and weft in weaving; vertically and horizontal; length and breadth; criss-crossed; able to move unhindered; abbr. for 合縱連橫|合纵连横[He2 zong4 Lian2 heng2], School of Diplomacy during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
- Shaanxi and Gansu provinces
- to write an account (of events)
- to intercept (military)
- weaponry; to hold (a weapon); to wield; to rely on; to depend on; war; battle