king / magnate / person having expert skill in something

robber baron (in opera, old stories) / magnate

see 大夫[dai4 fu5]

big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

king or monarch / best or strongest of its type / grand / great

to rule / to reign over

key document / important condition / criterion / requirement / requisite / cornerstone

to demand / to request / to coerce

important / vital / to want / to ask for / will / going to (as future auxiliary) / may / must / (used in a comparison) must be / probably / if

(bound form) to demand; to coerce

to want; to need; to ask for / will; shall; about to / need to; should / if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]) / (bound form) important

item / component / classifier for events, things, clothes etc

at hand / within easy reach / convenient / handy

to gather together, pool or collect / to happen by chance / to move close to / to exploit an opportunity

hand / (formal) to hold / person engaged in certain types of work / person skilled in certain types of work / personal(ly) / convenient / classifier for skill / CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]

to share / to use in common / suitable / fit for purpose / useable

100 ml / one-tenth of a peck / measure for dry grain equal to one-tenth of sheng 升 or liter, or one-hundredth dou 斗

to close / to join / to fit / to be equal to / whole / together / round (in battle) / conjunction (astronomy) / 1st note of pentatonic scale / old variant of 盒[he2]

variant of 合[he2]

to use / to employ / to have to / to eat or drink / expense or outlay / usefulness / hence / therefore

see 的士[di1 shi4]

really and truly

of; ~'s (possessive particle) / (used after an attribute) / (used to form a nominal expression) / (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis) / also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs

(bound form) bull's-eye; target

weaponry / weapons / arms

soldiers / a force / an army / weapons / arms / military / warlike / CL:個|个[ge4]

device / tool / utensil / CL:臺|台[tai2]

(coll.) what?

used in 嗎啡|吗啡[ma3 fei1]

(question particle for "yes-no" questions)

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

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

(adverb) also; both ... and ... (before predicates only) / (literary) particle having functions similar to 啊[a5]

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

difficult (to...) / problem / difficulty / difficult / not good

disaster / distress / to scold