- straight line; sharply (rise or fall)
- stretching; extension
- forever; always; perpetual
- (astronomy) Big Dipper
- Dongting Lake in northeast Hunan province
- to capture
- astronomy
- to comprehend; to apprehend; to become aware
- secret; trick; knack; key
- to save; to support; to help; to assist
- that; those; (one) another
- gate to enlightment (Buddhism); Buddhism; way; method; (old) south gate of a palace
- World War I (1914–1918)
- after the event; in hindsight; in retrospect
- to congeal; to concentrate attention; to stare
- fundamental; basic; root; simply; absolutely (not); (not) at all; CL:個|个[ge4]
- split seam; (fig.) flaw; weak point
- (of a commanding officer) to keep watch; to oversee
- central; middle; center; central authorities (of a state)
- to wait at one's ease for the exhausted enemy; to nurture one's strength and bide one's time (idiom)
- an integral whole; all concerned; everybody
- might; formidable power
- father-in-law (wife's father) and son-in-law
- affection; family love; love, esp. within a married couple or between parents and children
- have to; cannot but
- one's late teacher
- (not) even; yet; still
- orthodox school; fig. traditional; old school; authentic; genuine
- fame for fighting prowess; military glory
- unexpectedly; unawareness; unpreparedness
- unable to differentiate good from bad (idiom); not to know what's good for one; unable to recognize others' good intentions
- up until now; so far
- to take unfair advantage of; to deceive; to cheat
- 刷 shuā: 刷 shua1: a brush; to paint; to daub; to brush; to scrub; (fig.) to remove; to eliminate (from a contest); to fire (from a job); (onom.) swish; rustle; to swipe (a card); to scroll on (a phone); (gaming) to grind; to farm (for experience points, equipment, levels etc)刷 shuà: 刷 shua4: to select
- to be reborn; to recover; to come back to life; to regenerate
- shop front; facade; CL:間|间[jian1]; prestige
- (bound form) to imitate; to copy
- gale; squall; whole gale (meteorology)