- to pull back; to shrink; to contract; (physiology) systole
- self-taught; to learn without a teacher (idiom)
- pharmacopoeia
- old; aged
- to tweak one's ears and scratch one's cheeks (as an expression of anxiety, delight, frustration etc) (idiom)
- to stamp one's feet
- to turn up without being invited; unsolicited
- fortunately (formal writing)
- clansman; clan members; relatives; ethnic minority
- citadel; defensive city; acropolis
- to fuse together (idiom); hypostatic union (religion)
- road or pavement laid with flagstones
- in the wind; facing the wind; downwind
- (idiom) surreptitious; sneaky
- stature; height; size (of a person or object); (agriculture) bundle of cereal stalks tied together
- barrier-free; (esp.) accessible (to people with a disability)
- (coll.) father's father's father; paternal great-grandfather
- serene
- tired; weary
- to cherish the memory of; to think of; to reminisce
- lit. extreme saturation (idiom); fig. vividly and thoroughly; in great detail; without restraint; (of a performance) brilliant
- vein lines (in marble or fingerprint); grain (in wood etc)
- the younger generation
- age (number of years old)
- frog (CL:隻|只[zhi1]); (old) (slang) ugly guy
- water temperature
- in sequence, step by step (idiom); to make steady progress incrementally
- trustworthy
- (bound form) niche; shrine
- unable to move freely; difficult to get about
- real (people); living (artist); while still alive (e.g. skinned alive)
- to boil
- breed; variety; CL:個|个[ge4]
- greedy
- to find; to search out
- to double
- (idiom) to think oneself clever
- Dashan, stage name of Canadian Mark Henry Rowswell (1965-), actor and well-known TV personality in PRC
- hinterland; interior; outback