1 the Xia or Hsia dynasty c. 2000 BC

2 Xia of the Sixteen Kingdoms (407-432)

3 surname Xia

1 summer

2 classifier: 个 gè

1 might

2 formidable

1 early summer

1 to cheer for

2 to encourage

3 to boost the morale of

1 to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties)

2 Use Western science and technology to counter imperialist encroachment. (late Qing modernizing slogan)

1 tyrannical abuse (idiom); riding roughshod over people

1 to turn peril into safety (idiom); to avert disaster

1 a summer insect cannot discuss ice (idiom)

1 to exercise power arbitrarily (idiom)