- sudden; unexpected; abrupt; suddenly; Taiwan pr. [zou4]
- readily; flatly (deny, admit and so on); a mouthful; a bite
- dark red
- 血 xiě: 血 xie3: see 血[xue4]血 xuè: 血 xue4: blood; colloquial pr. [xie3]; CL:滴[di1],片[pian4]
- to splash; to splatter
- snow white
- void; hollow; empty
- (literary) prime years; youthful years
- to die naturally with dignity; to pass away peacefully; (of partnerships, projects etc) to end well; to have a good ending
- to court disaster (idiom); to dig one's own grave
- to accept misfortunes as decreed by fate; to be resigned to sth
- to find a place where one can fit in; to make one's home; to seek shelter
- manpower; staff; human hand
- to assemble; to concentrate; to mass; to build up; to marshal
- lit. like a sheet of loose sand; fig. unable to cooperate (idiom)
- 溃 kùi: 溃 kui4: (bound form) (of floodwaters) to break through a dam or dike; (bound form) to break through (a military encirclement); (bound form) to be routed; to be overrun; to fall to pieces; (bound form) to fester; to ulcerate溃 hùi: 溃 hui4: used in 潰膿|溃脓[hui4 nong2]; Taiwan pr. [kui4]
- to take advantage of a favorable situation; to seize an opportunity
- to eliminate (by armed force)
- lit. covering the mountains and the plains (idiom); fig. as far as the eye can see; covering everything; omnipresent
- melody
- to mix together (disparate substances); to mingle; a mix; to be tangled up with
- to sob; to whimper
- slight; minor; small; slightly
- sad; emotional; sentimental; pathos
- to cherish the memory of; to think of; to reminisce
- grand; vast (water)
- trace; vestige; historical remains; remnant
- to bury; to submerge; to pass into oblivion; to obliterate; to annihilate (physics)
- Nüwa (creator of humans in Chinese mythology)
- the Five Legendary Emperors, usually taken to be the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝[Huang2 di4], Zhuanxu 顓頊|颛顼[Zhuan1 xu1], Di Ku 帝嚳|帝喾[Di4 Ku4], Tang Yao 唐堯|唐尧[Tang2 Yao2] and Yu Shun 虞舜[Yu2 Shun4]
- soul; mind; idea
- to pray; to say a prayer
- frustrated; perplexed; irresolute; dazed
- (literary) the people; living thing; creature
- to obtain by an effort; to strive to get sth
- happiness; happy; blessed
- road to ruin; course of action from which there is no turning back
- to set foot on; to step on or into
- to throw off; to struggle free of; Taiwan pr. [zheng1 tuo1]