- former days; in the past
- courtesy name of 關羽|关羽[Guan1 Yu3]
- to dare; daring; (polite) may I venture
- lit. to go among enemies with only one's sword (idiom); fig. to go alone into enemy lines
- (literary) why; how
- today; the present time; now
- 阎 yán: 阎 yan2: (literary) the gate of a lane阎 Yán: 阎 Yan2: surname Yan (sometimes written 閆|闫[Yan2] in recent years)
- rivers
- ally
- how? (emphatic question)
- 耶 yē: 耶 ye1: (phonetic ye)耶 ye: 耶 ye5: final particle indicating enthusiasm etc耶 yé: 耶 ye2: interrogative particle (classical)
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong 羅貫中|罗贯中[Luo2 Guan4 zhong1], one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature, a fictional account of the Three Kingdoms at the break-up of the Han around 200 AD, portraying Liu Bei's 劉備|刘备[Liu2 Bei4] Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉[Shu3 Han4] as heroes and Cao Cao's 曹操[Cao2 Cao1] Wei 魏[Wei4] as villains
- famous general; (sports) renowned athlete
- fellow townsman; fellow villager; sb from the same hometown
- to stand guard over; (security) guard
- light; easy; gentle; soft; reckless; unimportant; frivolous; small in number; unstressed; neutral; to disparage
- simple; uncomplicated; letter; to choose; to select; bamboo strips used for writing (old)
- staff officer; to give advice
- to follow
- legend; folk tale; to repeat from mouth to mouth; they say that...
- in front of; in the presence of
- 面 miàn: 面 mian4: face; side; surface; aspect; top; classifier for objects with flat surfaces such as drums, mirrors, flags etc面 miàn: 面 mian4: flour; noodles; (of food) soft (not crunchy); (slang) (of a person) ineffectual; spineless
- (idiom) to produce a torrent of words; to talk on and on
- to talk about; to narrate; to give an account
- to form; to make up; to constitute
- 燕 Yān: 燕 Yan1: Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning; north Hebei; the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕[Qian2 Yan1] (337–370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕[Hou4 Yan1] (384–409), Southern Yan 南燕[Nan2 Yan1] (398–410), Northern Yan 北燕[Bei3 Yan1] (409–436); surname Yan燕 yàn: 燕 yan4: swallow (family Hirundinidae)
- allied armies
- hollow; emptiness; meaningless
- to press against; to support; to prop up; to resist; to withstand; to be equal to; to match; to balance; to offset; to mortgage; to make up for; to compensate for; to arrive at; to reach; to clap (one's hands) lightly (expressing delight) (Taiwan pr. [zhi3])
- great cause; great undertaking
- saliva; to spit
- to analyze; analysis; CL:個|个[ge4]
- elected by acclamation; recommended by all
- commander-in-chief; top military commander for a country or theater of operations
- second in command
- to collaborate; to join forces; to effect a junction
- to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate; to set aside (money); to poke (the fire); to pluck (a string instrument); to turn round; classifier: group, batch
- trip; travel; to travel; brigade (army)
- reinforcement; back-up; supporting force
- opponent; rival; competitor; (well-matched) adversary; match
- to foreordain; to be bound to; to be destined to; to be doomed to; inevitably
- (used to describe sb or sth that makes a very strong impression, whether favorable or unfavorable) terrible; intense; severe; devastating; amazing; awesome; outstanding; (of a person) stern; strict; harsh; shrewd; tough; (of an animal) fierce; (of a resemblance) striking; (of liquor or chili pepper) strong; (of bacteria) virulent
- end; conclusion; to come to an end; to terminate (sth)