surname Chen

state official or subject in dynastic China / I, your servant (used in addressing the sovereign) / Kangxi radical 131

on imperial orders

to offer (tribute) / to present respectfully (to superior, ancestor, deity etc) / to esteem / to revere / to believe in (a religion) / to wait upon / to accept orders (from superior)

imperial decree / purport / aim / purpose

front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293年) / former / formerly

to go / to go to (a place) / (of a time etc) last / just passed / to send / to remove / to get rid of / to reduce / to be apart from in space or time / to die (euphemism) / to play (a part) / (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth / (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker) / (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)

to arrest / to catch a criminal

to clutch / to grab / to capture

old variant of 拿[na2]

variant of 拿[na2]

to hold / to seize / to catch / to apprehend / to take / (used in the same way as 把[ba3]: to mark the following noun as a direct object)

goblin / witch / devil / bewitching / enchanting / monster / phantom / demon

monkey / CL:隻|只[zhi1]