- to flatter; to fawn on; to butter sb up; toadying; bootlicking
- to exert all one's strength
- half dead (of torment, hunger, tiredness etc); (tired) to death; (terrified) out of one's wits; (beaten) to within an inch of one's life; (knock) the daylights out of sb
- (machine) gear; pinion (gear wheel)
- to ignite; to light; fig. to spark off (hopes, controversy, flames of revolution)
- bright
- setting sun
- twilight; afterglow
- 空心 kōng xīn: 空心 kong1 xin1: hollow; (of vegetables) to become hollow or spongy inside; (of a basketball) to swish through (not touching the hoop)空心 kòng xīn: 空心 kong4 xin1: on an empty stomach
- to glisten; to glitter; to twinkle; to flicker; to be evasive; to equivocate
- candlelight; candlelit (vigil etc); candela, unit of luminous intensity (cd)
- to follow
- to change into
- fighter; soldier; warrior; CL:個|个[ge4]
- courage; boldness; guts
- harm; troubles; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to twirl (in the fingers)
- to create something from nothing (idiom)
- to be obstructed; to be blocked up; to be impassable; to make no sense; to be illogical
- Six schools of pre-Han philosophy, as analyzed by 司馬談|司马谈[Si1 ma3 Tan2] (儒家[Ru2 jia1], 道家[Dao4 jia1], 陰陽|阴阳[yin1 yang2], 法家[Fa3 jia1], 名家[Ming2 jia1], and 墨家[Mo4 jia1])
- 挣 zhèng: 挣 zheng4: to struggle to get free; to strive to acquire; to make (money)挣 zhēng: 挣 zheng1: used in 掙扎|挣扎[zheng1 zha2]
- fiber; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- to inhale; to breathe in
- dusky
- stain; taint
- to feel a chill (as an emotional response); to feel cold (as a clinical symptom)
- to miss; to remember with longing; to long to see again
- (onom.) coarse crowing; hoarse; husky
- very late at night
- face (body part)
- to twist; to warp; to distort