- brief; sketchy; outline; summary; to omit; (bound form before a single-character verb) a bit; somewhat; slightly; plan; strategy; to capture (territory)
- to reduce; to decrease; to shrink
- one-quarter
- landscape
- equivalent to; appropriate; considerably; to a certain extent; fairly; quite
- qualities that make sth worth seeing (or reading)
- ominous; inauspicious
- disk
- deep red; crimson; scarlet
- blaze; flame
- to draw a circle; cliques; circles
- to refract; refraction; to reflect (in the figurative sense: to show the nature of)
- not to arrive; not reaching; insufficient; less than
- half of a lifetime
- to face; to turn towards; geared towards; catering for; -oriented; (Tw) aspect; facet
- hemisphere
- 壳 qiào: 壳 qiao4: (bound form) shell; Taiwan pr. [ke2]壳 ké: 壳 ke2: (coll.) shell (of an egg, nut, crab etc); case; casing; housing (of a machine or device)
- balance; equilibrium
- hydrogen sulfide H2S; sulfureted hydrogen
- carbon dioxide CO2
- sulfur dioxide SO2
- nitrogen (chemistry)
- (of) all kinds and sorts; various
- rare gas; noble gas (chemistry)
- forever; always; perpetual
- name (of a thing); name (of an organization)
- the name does not reflect the reality (idiom); more in name than in fact; Reality does not live up to the name.; Excellent theory, but the practice does not bear it out.
- to be in (some state, position, or condition)
- to freeze; to feel very cold; aspic or jelly
- Africa; abbr. for 阿非利加洲[A1 fei1 li4 jia1 Zhou1]
- area (of a floor, piece of land etc); surface area; tract of land
- 区 qū: 区 qu1: area; region; district; small; distinguish; CL:個|个[ge4]区 ōu: 区 Ou1: surname Ou
- liquid (state)
- fragmentary; piecemeal; in bits and pieces; sporadic; scattered
- island
- roughly; probably; rough; approximate; about; general idea
- to dissipate
- the clouds; cloud layer; cloud bank
- to surround; to encircle; to hem in
- (loanword) radar
- delicate; fine; careful; meticulous; painstaking
- to probe; to survey