- record book; archive; Taoist written charm; document of prophecy attesting to dynastic fortunes
- 浅 jiān: 浅 jian1: sound of moving water浅 qiǎn: 浅 qian3: shallow; light (color)
- peace treaty
- to set fire to; to burn down; burning hot; baked cake
- to act like a spoiled child; to throw a tantrum; to act coquettishly
- a power (i.e. a dominant country)
- US and UK; Anglo-American
- tycoon; magnate; big player (including company, country, school etc); big shot
- Versailles (near Paris); (slang) to humblebrag; ostensibly modest, but in fact boastful
- sovereignty
- head of a committee
- to refuse (a visa application etc)
- to fail to meet each other; to conflict with each other; to be at odds with
- anxious; worried; apprehensive
- to march; to parade; to demonstrate; procession; march; demonstration; to travel around; to roam
- why not?; why not do (sth)?
- Peking University (abbr. for 北京大學|北京大学)
- Cai Yuanpei (1868-1940), educationist and politician, president of Peking University 1917-27
- to live or die; to exist or perish
- to rise vigorously; a spirited start
- to save the nation
- national humiliation, refers to Japanese incursions into China in the 1930s and 40s, and more especially to Mukden railway incident of 18th September 1931 九一八事變|九一八事变 and subsequent Japanese annexation of Manchuria
- surname Cai
- Peking University
- colleges and universities
- Tiananmen Gate, entrance of the Imperial City in Beijing
- (protest) demonstration
- modern history (in Chinese historiography, from the Opium Wars to the fall of the Qing dynasty)
- May Fourth Movement; Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles
- (literary) chassis of a carriage (contrasted with the canopy 堪[kan1]); (literary) (fig.) the earth (while the carriage canopy is a metaphor for heaven); land; territory; (literary) carriage; (literary) sedan chair; palanquin; (bound form) the multitudes; the people; the public
- fun; interest; delight; taste; liking; preference
- to survey; to measure; to conjecture
- (coll.) cash; bill
- pocket (in a garment)
- very slow; exasperatingly slow
- (coll.) penny; buck
- a man; a male; men; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to denounce; to condemn
- (idiom) thought-provoking; to provide food for thought
- hasn't (or haven't); hasn't ever
- to repay; to reimburse