- 头 tou: 头 tou5: suffix for nouns头 tóu: 头 tou2: head; hair style; the top; end; beginning or end; a stub; remnant; chief; boss; side; aspect; first; leading; classifier for pigs or livestock; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to withdraw; to pull back; to contract; to shrink; to reduce; abbreviation; also pr. [su4]
- the title of Emperor
- to pass on to; to transfer to; to hand on to; (in football etc) to pass to
- then; at that time; in those days
- 李 Lǐ: 李 Li3: surname Li李 lǐ: 李 li3: plum
- head rope of a fishing net; guiding principle; key link; class (taxonomy); outline; program
- to hold on to; to defend; to keep; to guard
- capital of a country
- to serve the king diligently; to save the country in times of danger; to send troops to rescue the king
- to attack (the enemy)
- to listen to information; to get the news; to believe what one hears
- dialect; language; spoken words; speech; talk; words; conversation; what sb said; CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]
- unexpectedly; actually; to go so far as to; indeed
- need not
- fame for fighting prowess; military glory
- raw silk; white; plain, unadorned; vegetarian (food); essence; nature; element; constituent; usually; always; ever
- 著 zhāo: 著 zhao1: a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]); trick; tactic; (dialect) okay; all right; (dialect) to put in; to add著 zhúo: 著 zhuo2: to wear (clothes); to contact; to use; to apply著 zhe: 著 zhe5: aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state著 zháo: 著 zhao2: to touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding in著 zhù: 著 zhu4: to make known; to show; to prove; to write; book; outstanding著 zhúo: 著 zhuo2: used in 執著|执著[zhi2 zhuo2]
- veteran general
- trustworthiness; (commerce) credit; (literary) to trust and appoint
- to call oneself; to claim to be; to profess; to claim a title
- god; deity
- to call the wind and summon the rain (idiom); to exercise magical powers; fig. to stir up troubles
- swindler; a cheat
- to shout; to call; to order; to ask; to be called; by (indicates agent in the passive mood)
- at last; in the end; finally; eventually
- (bound form) to capture (sb)
- incapable ruler
- (idiom) to reap what one has sown; to stew in one's own juice
- (reduplicated) whether... or...; never mind; fine (indicating acceptance or resignation)
- lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers; innumerable; thousands upon thousands
- 越 Yuè: 越 Yue4: generic word for peoples or states of south China or south Asia at different historical periods; abbr. for Vietnam 越南越 yuè: 越 yue4: to exceed; to climb over; to surpass; the more... the more
- 怒 nù: 怒 nu4: anger; fury; flourishing; vigorous怒 Nù: 怒 Nu4: Nu ethnic group
- in the years of; during those years; period (of dynasty or decade)
- 钦 qīn: 钦 qin1: to respect; to admire; to venerate; by the emperor himself钦 Qīn: 钦 Qin1: surname Qin
- quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊|被旅游[bei4 lu : 3 you2] to "go on a trip")
- (bound form) shame; humiliation; disgrace
- 倒 dǎo: 倒 dao3: to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow; to change (trains or buses); to move around; to resell at a profit倒 dào: 倒 dao4: to invert; to place upside down or frontside back; to pour out; to tip out; to dump; inverted; upside down; reversed; to go backward; contrary to what one might expect; but; yet