- (reception) hall; living room; office; provincial government department
- head of provincial PRC government department
- 陈 Chén: 陈 Chen2: surname Chen; Chen (c. 1045 – 479 BC), a Zhou dynasty state; Chen (557–589), one of the Southern Dynasties 南朝[Nan2 Chao2]陈 chén: 陈 chen2: (bound form) to lay out; to exhibit; to display; (bound form) to narrate; to state; to explain; to tell; old; stale
- 采 cǎi: 采 cai3: to pick; to pluck; to collect; to select; to choose; to gather采 cǎi: 采 cai3: color; complexion; looks采 cài: 采 cai4: used in 采邑[cai4 yi4] and 采地[cai4 di4]
- to investigate a crime; to scout; to reconnoiter; reconnaissance; detection; a scout
- the corresponding time period (in a different year etc); concurrent; synchronous
- to explain the facts; to defend against an accusation
- to follow; to accompany
- there is no need; why should
- mistrustful; suspicious; paranoid
- suspicion; to suspect
- hundred million; (fig.) enormous quantity; absolutely; certainly (usually followed by a negative expression)
- unexpected; hard to imagine; it had not occurred to me; who could have thought that
- to schedule in advance
- Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang
- 削 xuē: 削 xue1: to pare; to reduce; to remove; Taiwan pr. [xue4]削 xiāo: 削 xiao1: to peel with a knife; to pare; to cut (a ball at tennis etc)
- to seize; to take away forcibly; to wrest control of; to compete or strive for; to force one's way through; to leave out; to lose
- to be promoted to
- middle level (in a hierarchy)
- that level or higher; that amount or more; the above-mentioned; (used to indicate that one has completed one's remarks) That is all.
- communal meal; formal dinner of club or group
- to declare; to announce; to proclaim
- to adopt or carry out (measures, policies, course of action); to take
- method; way; means (of doing sth); skill; ability; trick; wile
- plain white cloth; calico
- sleeve; to tuck inside one's sleeve
- hoop; to bind with hoops
- sign; mark; symbol; logo; to symbolize; to indicate; to mark
- to deceive; to hoodwink
- a moment; a while; in a moment; now...now...; also pr. [yi1 hui3 r5]
- (old) foreign firm
- a building of two or more stories; CL:棟|栋[dong4],幢[zhuang4],座[zuo4]
- to go to sleep; to go to bed (literary)
- to be just about to; to be on the point of
- to fall asleep
- suddenly; all of a sudden