- to infect; infection; (fig.) to influence
- main aspects; essentials; gist
- to experience; to realize; to comprehend
- to discuss
- lonely; desolate
- to be of no interest to anyone (idiom)
- have to; cannot but
- to confirm; to corroborate; to verify; proof; evidence
- calamity and chaos; devastating disorder; great turmoil
- first month of the lunar year
- watercourse (river, canal, drain etc); water route; lane (in a swimming pool)
- to analyze; to try to figure out; to try to fathom
- all; every
- warhorse; cavalry horse; troops
- matters; arrangements
- without leave; without consulting anyone
- 曲 qǔ: 曲 qu3: tune; song; CL:支[zhi1]曲 qū: 曲 qu1: bent; crooked; wrong曲 Qū: 曲 Qu1: surname Qu曲 qū: 曲 qu1: fermentation starter; leaven (molds, yeasts or bacteria used in fermenting soy products or brewing etc); Taiwan pr. [qu2]
- to make a decision; to determine
- to look attentively at; to closely watch; to gaze at
- a good while; a long time
- to put down a revolt; to pacify a rebellion
- three men talking makes a tiger (idiom); repeated rumor becomes a fact
- fable; allegory; parable; CL:則|则[ze2]
- this kind; these kinds; such
- hanging by a thread; very precarious; almost extinct; (of sound) linger on faintly
- ahead; in front; preceding; above; also pr. [qian2 mian5]
- terrified
- beach; shoal; rapids; CL:片[pian4]; classifier for liquids: pool, puddle
- beach; sand bank
- Gan River in Jiangxi Province 江西省[Jiang1 xi1 Sheng3]
- waterway
- strategically situated and easy to defend; strategic location
- dry season; low-water period
- river water
- ahead; the front
- the surface of the river
- helmsman
- to realize only then