great distance; thousands of miles; (lit.) ten thousand ri
head; chief; merit; strong point; superiority; major
to spread out (e.g. a futon); to lay out; to lay down (e.g. a cushion); to impose widely (e.g. martial law); to promulgate; to pin down; to hold down
great army; mighty host; whole army
strong wind; high wind; moderate gale
to mow down; to cut down; to knock down; to defeat; to beat
storm caused by the devil; evil wind; eerie wind
Xiongnu (ancient Central Asian nomadic people associated with the Huns)
white (bleached) bone; skeleton
yellow sand; yellow dust; loess; desert
Qin dynasty (of China; 221-207 BCE); Ch'in dynasty
barbarian tribes surrounding ancient China
place; spot; address; district; area; one's house; point
China; Han dynasty (of China; 202 BCE-220 CE); Han (majority Chinese ethnic group); man
beacon; skyrocket; signal fire; starting shot; starting signal
to shake; to jolt; to rock (cradle); to swing
to strain (one's stomach); to bear down (during childbirth); to push down
to cease; to stop; to be over
burly; strong; indomitable; indefatigable; robust (vitality, appetite, economic growth, etc.); strong
field; plain; hidden interior part (of a structure or object); wild (of an animal or plant)
status; position; method; way; rule; regulation
to; traditional unit of volume, approx. 18 litres; square bearing block (at the top of a pillar); Chinese "Dipper" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); third string of a koto (counting from the player's near side)
number; edition; sobriquet; pen-name; size (of printing types, canvases, knitting needles, etc.); suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.
black kite (Milvus migrans); construction worker; scaffold erector; fire hook; reddish brown; Inverness cape; filcher
intestines; bowels; entrails; guts; placenta (of a pumpkin, melon, etc.); fibrous pulp
to contain; to comprise; to hold in the mouth; to bear in mind; to understand; to express (emotion, etc.)
branch; bough; limb; twig; sprig; spray
strong pressure; heavy pressure
wave motion; undulation; surge; wave
to yield; to give in; to bend (knee, etc.); to subdue; to overpower; (arch.) to feel down
officers and soldiers; soldiers
commoner; humble subject; private citizen who opposed the Tokugawa shogunate during the Bakumatsu period; grassy place; bush
empty; void; vain; fruitless; lifeless
(arch.) like that; (arch.) as such; yeah; uh-huh
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
that is (to say); namely; precisely; exactly; if one does ..., then; in that case
dangerous weapon; lethal weapon; deadly weapon; murder weapon
saint; wise and virtuous person (esp. in Confucianism); great religious teacher; refined sake
unavoidably; inevitably; necessarily; reluctantly; against one's will
to use; to make use of; to utilize