- vegetable knife; kitchen knife; cleaver; CL:把[ba3]
- one's two hands; two prongs (of a strategy); both aspects, eventualities etc; skills; expertise
- prepared against war; to prepare for war; warmongering
- unspoken dialogue in a play, left for the audience to infer; subtext; (fig.) implicit assertion
- an old saying
- in this world; under the sun
- fool; stupid person
- to penetrate; to see through
- trick; scheme; ploy; skill
- to surrender; to accept defeat
- this or that very day; in the next few days
- headquarters; head office
- to camp; to pitch camp; stationed; quartered; Taiwan pr. [zha2 ying2]
- to flee; to run away
- to offer (respectfully); to present
- severed head
- to the west of (suffix)
- light-years (apart); a million miles (apart); (i.e. indicates a huge difference or a huge distance)
- all the more; increasingly
- wantonly; without restraint (of enemy or malefactor); unbridled
- (army) commander-in-chief (archaic); provincial military governor and civil administrator during the early Republic of China era (1911-1949 AD)
- name of job in Imperial bureaucracy; official position
- trend; tendency
- to dispatch an envoy
- good wine; fine liquor
- shallows; shoal; sandbar
- isolated and without help
- to carry out a vendetta against sb
- 表 biǎo: 表 biao3: exterior surface; family relationship via females; to show (one's opinion); a model; a table (listing information); a form; a meter (measuring sth)表 biǎo: 表 biao3: watch (timepiece); meter; gauge
- to report on completion of a mission; debriefing
- idiot; fool
- 明镜 míng jìng: 明镜 ming2 jing4: mirror (as a metaphor for sth beautiful, bright and flat – such as a lake – or sth that provides clarity and insight)明镜 Míng jìng: 明镜 Ming2 jing4: Der Spiegel
- (idiom) to fly into a rage; to see red
- to investigate and find out; to ascertain
- to punish severely
- by chance; as chance would have it
- to arrest; to capture; to seize; to win (a set, a game etc)
- to feign; to pretend
- to use public office to avenge private wrongs