- to rescue
- prefectural magistrate (during Tang to Qing times)
- to die (idiom); to breathe one's last; to give up the ghost
- to have; to hold (usu. sth abstract: power, distribution rights, a bargaining chip etc)
- to treasure; to value; to cherish
- (idiom) hard to come by; not easily obtained
- secure and lucrative job
- to attempt suicide; to court death
- original; former; originally; formerly; at first; so, actually, as it turns out
- to hold power
- avaricious; greedy; rapacious; insatiable; avid
- arrogant; overbearing
- to offer (tribute); to present respectfully (to superior, ancestor, deity etc); to esteem; to revere; to believe in (a religion); to wait upon; to accept orders (from superior)
- to go on an official or business trip
- to ask; to demand
- considerable (cost etc); bountiful (crop etc); high (social status etc)
- to bribe; a bribe
- 俊 zùn: 俊 zun4: (dialectal pronunciation of 俊[jun4]); cool; neat俊 jùn: 俊 jun4: smart; eminent; handsome; talented
- to answer; to respond; to answer positively; to agree; to accept; to promise
- 白银 Bái yín: 白银 Bai2 yin2: see 白銀區|白银区[Bai2 yin2 Qu1]; see 白銀市|白银市[Bai2 yin2 Shi4]白银 bái yín: 白银 bai2 yin2: silver
- to deal with; to cope
- divinatory diagram; one of the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]; one of the sixty-four divinatory hexagrams of the Book of Changes 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1]
- as if; to seem like
- inappropriate; improper; out of place
- lit. a warning taken from the overturned cart ahead (idiom); fig. lesson learned from past mistakes or failures
- 安 ān: 安 An1: surname An安 ān: 安 an1: (bound form) calm; peaceful; to calm; to set at ease; safe; secure; in good health; content; satisfied (as in 安於|安于[an1 yu2]); to place (sb) in a suitable position (job); to install; to fix; to fit; to bring (a charge against sb); to harbor (certain intentions); ampere (abbr. for 安培[an1 pei2])
- crotch; 15th of the 28th constellations of Chinese astronomy
- accomplished; elegant
- to interrogate; to question (at a roadblock)
- land tax; money and grain (given as tax or tribute)
- to exact bribes; to solicit bribes; to demand bribes; to extort
- penalty; punishment; to punish
- catty; (PRC) weight equal to 500 g; (Tw) weight equal to 600 g; (HK, Malaysia, Singapore) slightly over 604 g
- cangue (wooden collar like stocks used to restrain and punish criminals in China)
- to publicly expose
- if it were not for; but for
- to be bound to; to be sure to
- to suffer heat exhaustion; sunstroke; heatstroke
- science and technology
- to bring forth new ideas; to blaze new trails; innovation
- to flee for one's life
- to break; to snap; to cut off; to give up or abstain from sth; to judge; (usu. used in the negative) absolutely; definitely; decidedly