- liquid water (as opposed to steam or ice)
- gaseous state (physics); manner; air; bearing
- clear and bright; unclouded; clear and sonorous (voice); clear and lively (narrative)
- be plainly visible
- to speculate; to conjecture
- to drift
- indefinite; indeterminate; (botany) adventitious
- 山 shān: 山 shan1: mountain; hill (CL:座[zuo4]); (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on山 Shān: 山 Shan1: surname Shan
- a cloud
- external; outside; outward appearance
- comparatively speaking
- medium sized
- sheep
- hillside
- air sac; aerostat gasbag
- biosphere
- to neglect; to overlook; to ignore
- to take over by force; to rob; to plunder; to brush over; to skim; to sweep
- to live in or on another organism as a parasite; to live by taking advantage of others; parasitism; parasitic
- to raise sheep; shepherd
- mirroring others; identical
- brand new
- torpedo
- cuttlefish
- to let off; to give out
- to extend
- tentacles; feelers; antennae
- to exhaust; to use up completely
- kite (lit. "wind zither", traditionally explained as being named after kites fitted with bamboo whistles that produced musical sounds when flown)
- to appear; to look; form; shape
- polyhedron
- ribbon
- to fall short of; not as good as; too late
- (bound form) to prepare; to equip; (literary) fully; completely
- plankton
- gauze (cloth)
- to breed; to reproduce; to propagate
- to carbonize; dry distillation; carbonization
- new generation