- rapid transit system; urban railway
- to add or gain sth without additional effort; to add sth without good cause
- sorrowful; dismal
- to glitter; brilliant; splendid
- bold and unrestrained; untrammeled
- walking corpse (idiom); zombie; person who lives only on the material level
- to show clearly; to designate; to indicate
- border; horizon; shore
- omniscient
- Intel
- company; firm; corporation; CL:家[jia1]
- (main) hall; large room for a specific purpose; CL:間|间[jian1]; relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family; of the same clan; classifier for classes, lectures etc; classifier for sets of furniture
- to dissolve; to disband
- national library
- to collect in a museum or library; museum collection; library holdings
- Republic of China (1912-1949); used in Taiwan as the name of the calendar era (e.g. 民國六十年|民国六十年 is 1971, the 60th year after 1911)
- life (a person's whole life); in one's entire life
- (conjunction linking two nouns) and its ...; and their ...; and his ...; and her ...
- Yu the Great (c. 21st century BC), mythical leader who tamed the floods; surname Yu
- to compile; to write
- to try (to see what it's like or whether one can do it)
- direction in which sb or sth has gone; whereabouts
- to turn one's head; to turn around; (fig.) to return (to a previous point); to come back (to what one was saying before); (fig.) to look back (in time); to reflect on the past
- abstracted; absent-minded; in a trance
- (idiom) to gnash one's teeth; to fume with rage
- spray (sprig of a plant with blossoms); cuttlefish (on dining menus); (literary) beautiful woman
- vegetation; plants
- to write; to compose; writing; written works
- to exaggerate; overstated; exaggerated; hyperbole; (coll.) excessive; ridiculous; outrageous
- to continue; to follow after; to go on with; to succeed; to inherit; then; afterwards
- (literary) lost or nearly lost body of knowledge; (literary) consummate mastery (in a field); (wuxia) supreme technique
- 太平 tài píng: 太平 tai4 ping2: peace and security太平 Tài píng: 太平 Tai4 ping2: see 太平區|太平区[Tai4 ping2 Qu1]
- unjust; unfair
- to be worried; to be distressed; worries
- to break away from; to cast off (old ideas etc); to get rid of; to break away (from); to break out (of); to free oneself from; to extricate oneself
- why
- bored; boring; senseless
- to put on a fake smile (idiom); to smile insincerely
- voice; windpipe