to punish; punishment; sanctions (incl. economic)

vice-chairman (of an organization); vice president (of a company); deputy governor (of a bank)

dictatorship

to cut out (as a dress); to cut; to trim; to reduce; to diminish; to cut back (e.g. on staff); decision; judgment

arbitration

(sports) to referee; to umpire; to officiate; referee; umpire (abbr. for 主裁判[zhu3 cai2 pan4])

genre; style; form of writing

to tailor (clothes); to trim (expenditure)

(literary) to kill oneself; to commit suicide

to consider and decide

Duan Yucai (1735-1815), author of Commentary on Shuowen Jiezi (1815) 說文解字註|说文解字注[Shuo1 wen2 Jie3 zi4 Zhu4]

to hit on sth new (idiom); to display originality; to adopt an original approach

legal sanction; prescribed punishment; punishable by law

to display originality (idiom); to do things differently

economic sanctions

handsome high-powered businessman (a type of character in an eponymous genre of romantic fiction who typically has a soft spot for a girl of lower social status)