- repulsive; vile; hateful; abominable
- good plan; good idea
- Zuo Zhuan or Tsochuan, Mr Zuo's Annals or Mr Zuo's commentary on 春秋[Chun1 qiu1], early history c. 400 BC attributed to famous blind historian Zuo Qiuming 左丘明[Zuo3 Qiu1 ming2]
- bow string; string of musical instrument; watchspring; chord (segment of curve); hypotenuse; CL:根[gen1]
- to reward or comfort with presents of food, drink etc
- to use (sth) in an ingenious way; marvelously effective use
- 郑 Zhèng: 郑 Zheng4: Zheng, a Zhou-dynasty state in the vicinity of present-day Xinzheng 新鄭|新郑[Xin1 zheng4], a county-level city in Henan; abbr. for Zhengzhou 鄭州|郑州[Zheng4 zhou1], the capital of Henan; surname Zheng郑 zhèng: 郑 zheng4: used in 鄭重|郑重[zheng4 zhong4]
- nationalized; public; government owned; state-owned
- to trade; to carry out commercial activities; in business
- the state of Qin, one of the seven states of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC)
- (of a nation) to be destroyed; to be subjugated; a fallen nation
- starlit night; by night; under the night sky; through the night
- the Qin army (model for the terracotta warriors)
- to reward with food and drink; to feast (sb); presents of food etc made to troops; Taiwan pr. [kao4 lao4]
- to return to one's home country
- one of the twelve animals symbolic of the earthly branches 地支[di4 zhi1]; animal from the Chinese zodiac
- men's clothes
- emperor; government; official
- to rake in (money); to plunder; to milk people dry
- attractive and intelligent; charming; elegant
- to crane one's neck; to await eagerly; to lead; to show the way
- to look into the distance
- to lay bare in a few words; to expose with a word; to point out bluntly
- generalissimo
- millions of people all of one mind (idiom); the people united
- cowardice; timid
- (bound form) brutal; oppressive; harsh; (literary) disaster; catastrophe
- to sacrifice one's life
- sandpit; battleground; battlefield
- military division level commander; teacher
- to educate; to bring up; to nurture; upbringing; breeding; culture