- butcher; fig. murderous dictator
- to slaughter; to butcher; to kill (animals etc); (coll.) to fleece; to rip off; to overcharge; (bound form) to govern; to rule; (bound form) (a title for certain government officials in ancient China)
- to suspend; to hang; (vehicle) suspension
- deathbed struggle; final struggle (idiom)
- violence; force; violent
- to injure; to harm
- to despair; to give up all hope; desperate; desperation
- to breathe in; to suck in; to inhale
- one breath; in one breath; at a stretch
- to yell
- 蹬 dēng: 蹬 deng1: to step on; to tread on; to put on; to wear (shoes, trousers etc); (slang) to dump (sb); Taiwan pr. [deng4]蹬 dèng: 蹬 deng4: used in 蹭蹬[ceng4 deng4]
- to collapse; to droop; to settle down
- to collapse; to fall into ruins; death of king or emperor; demise
- to help; to lend a hand; to do a favor; to do a good turn
- deathly stillness
- to shout (slogans etc)
- to feel about; to grope about; to fumble; to do things slowly
- 落 là: 落 la4: to leave out; to be missing; to leave behind or forget to bring; to lag or fall behind落 lào: 落 lao4: colloquial reading for 落[luo4] in certain compounds落 lùo: 落 luo4: to fall or drop; (of the sun) to set; (of a tide) to go out; to lower; to decline or sink; to lag or fall behind; to fall onto; to rest with; to get or receive; to write down; whereabouts; settlement
- to splash
- night
- to beat sb; to beat (a drum)
- to float; to hover; also written 漂浮
- radian; arc; curve; curvature
- to press against; to support; to prop up; to resist; to withstand; to be equal to; to match; to balance; to offset; to mortgage; to make up for; to compensate for; to arrive at; to reach; to clap (one's hands) lightly (expressing delight) (Taiwan pr. [zhi3])
- to stand as a goalkeeper; to keep guard on a gate
- (meteorology) cold air mass
- to roam all over the place; to go into every nook and corner; to infiltrate; (of criminals, enemies etc) to be on the run; to flee and try to hide
- a nip in the air; chilliness
- cutting edge or point of a knife, sword or tool
- breakfast
- pure; clean; unmixed
- to jam; to choke; to clutch; also pr. [qia3 zhu4]
- (of objects) to fall; to drop; to droop; (medicine) to experience tenesmus
- to believe (what sb claims) (usually used in the negative); (math.) confidence (interval etc)
- perception; consciousness
- still; as before; yet
- to not move a single jot (idiom)
- numerous and disorderly
- geometry; (literary) how much
- in disorder; messy; Taiwan pr. [san4 luan4]
- page of a book