- guarantee; to guarantee; to ensure; to safeguard; to pledge; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to rank second (in terms of some attribute: size, frequency, quality etc)
- distance; CL:個|个[ge4]; to be apart from
- to dismiss and replace (sb); to replace (sb or sth)
- since (a time); ever since
- to take complete charge (idiom)
- father and son
- acquaintance; friend
- to find
- official written ruling in response to a submission; official approval in writing
- happily
- vacancy
- arm
- specially; intentionally
- amiable manner; pleasant countenance
- precious darling (often refers to one's child); sweetheart
- to contradict (elders or superiors)
- implication
- to yell
- What a scandal!; Whatever next?
- to utter a word; to make a sound; to cheep; to squeak; also pr. [zi1 sheng1]
- (idiom) to take one's time making a decision; to consider at length
- external; foreign; pertaining to external or foreign (affairs)
- World War I (1914–1918)
- too busy; to have no time for; fully occupied
- 东 Dōng: 东 Dong1: surname Dong东 dōng: 东 dong1: east; host (i.e. sitting on east side of guest); landlord
- 顾 Gù: 顾 Gu4: surname Gu顾 gù: 顾 gu4: to look after; to take into consideration; to attend to
- to send troops
- to agree to and sign (a treaty etc)
- equal; equality
- to divide sth into (parts); to subdivide
- the fifth; fifth day of a month
- clause (of contract or law); CL:項|项[xiang4]
- the Japanese Twenty-One Demands of 1915
- Asia (abbr. for 亞細亞洲|亚细亚洲[Ya4 xi4 ya4 Zhou1])
- India
- protectorate
- refusing to accept
- (do sth) on a large scale
- to invade China (referring to 19th century imperialist powers and Japan)
- (of a nation) to be destroyed; to be subjugated; a fallen nation