- prince
- to assassinate
- to talk about; to mention
- to declare oneself emperor; to win the best actor award
- to force a smile; a bitter laugh
- to express; to convey
- mood; mental state; frame of mind
- obstinately clinging to one's course (idiom); willful; one's own way; dogmatic
- to remove armor and return to the farm; to return to civilian life
- not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing
- to visit; to call on sb; to look around
- 居 Jū: 居 Ju1: surname Ju居 jī: 居 ji1: (archaic) sentence-final particle expressing a doubting attitude居 jū: 居 ju1: to reside; to be (in a certain position); to store up; to be at a standstill; residence; house; restaurant; classifier for bedrooms
- intimate; close
- to decline to receive a visitor; to turn sb away
- one side; other; different; lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂[dao1], 亻[ren2] etc)
- to go in
- to meet with; meeting
- worn out; exhausted; dispirited
- officialdom; bureaucracy
- imperial physician
- to diagnose and treat
- chicken stock; chicken soup; (fig.) chicken soup for the soul – i.e. feel-good motivational stories (often used disparagingly because the stories don't really effect change in people's lives)
- 汤 Tāng: 汤 Tang1: surname Tang汤 tāng: 汤 tang1: soup; hot or boiling water; decoction of medicinal herbs; water in which sth has been boiled汤 shāng: 汤 shang1: rushing current
- care; solicitude; to show care for; concerned about; attentive to
- considerate (of other people's needs)
- poison
- concubine
- rumor
- poisonous
- to inspect; to examine; to test
- to be finished (with sth)
- to put poison in sth; to poison
- a member of the same clan; a distant relative with the same family name
- to run; to rush about; to be on the go
- restless; unsettled
- 炸 zhá: 炸 zha2: to deep fry; (coll.) to blanch (a vegetable); Taiwan pr. [zha4]炸 zhà: 炸 zha4: to burst; to explode; to blow up; to bomb; (coll.) to fly into a rage; (coll.) to scamper off; to scatter