- flower; earlobe; fig. item on both sides; classifier for flowers, clouds etc
- degree; level; extent
- chrysalis; pupa
- levitation (of Daoist immortal); to become as light as a feather and ascend to heaven; (in Daoism) to become immortal; to die; of winged insects, to emerge from the cocoon in adult form; eclosion
- butterfly; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
- to wrinkle; wrinkled; to crease
- delicate
- powerless; lacking strength
- the truth about sth; the actual facts
- to emerge (from a comparison); to come out as; to be competent or equal to
- urgent; pressing; rapid; hurried; worried; to make (sb) anxious
- dying; at one's last gasp
- short period of time; a moment
- to fall; to drop; to lag behind; to lose; to go missing; to reduce; fall (in prices); to lose (value, weight etc); to wag; to swing; to turn; to change; to exchange; to swap; to show off; to shed (hair); (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc)
- to jump; to leap
- petal; CL:片[pian4]
- fin
- or; either one or the other
- equivalent to
- (entomology) larva
- stage; section; phase; period; CL:個|个[ge4]
- swimming; to swim
- seabed; seafloor; bottom of the ocean
- to give birth; to grow (whiskers etc); to generate; to produce
- bouncing and vivacious
- to rush; to charge; to dash; to break through; to temper oneself (through battling hardships)
- land under heaven; the whole world; the whole of China; realm; rule
- coral
- to kneel down
- bright-colored; gaily-colored
- to take off (one's clothes); (fig.) to shed (one's former image etc); (of a fad or the after-effects of a disaster etc) to subside; also pr. [tun4 qu4]
- ...-shaped thing; to portray sth
- brittle; fragile
- thin slice; thin section; flake; Taiwan pr. [bo2 pian4]
- weak; in poor health
- to be close to; to approach; to draw near
- to hide; to dodge; to avoid
- to survey; to measure; to conjecture
- tip; extremity
- to shine; shiny
- sapphire
- scallop (genus Pecten)