- preliminary round of imperial examinations; abbr. for 科學考察|科学考察[ke1 xue2 kao3 cha2], scientific exploration
- Nazi (loanword)
- adorable; cute; lovely
- to change; to transform; shift; transformation; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to choke; to stifle; to restrain; to hold back; to hold in (urine); to hold (one's breath)
- cold air; air conditioning
- to fabricate; to make sth up; invented
- this kind of
- can't say for sure; maybe
- to separate; to part
- to phone sb up
- to capture (enemy property or personnel); capture (physics: absorption of subatomic particle by an atom or nucleus)
- to schedule in advance
- word; statement; speech; lyrics; a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty 宋朝[Song4 chao2] (CL:首[shou3])
- related; brought together by fate
- to divorce
- to denounce; to condemn; to criticize; condemnation; criticism
- to excuse; to forgive; to pardon
- flower
- lonely; solitary
- to prop up; to support; strut; brace
- flower; earlobe; fig. item on both sides; classifier for flowers, clouds etc
- style of folk song popular in Gansu, Qinghai and Ningxia; CL:首[shou3]
- to come across; to run into; to meet; to hit
- northern extremity
- strait; channel
- kayak
- barren or uninhabited island; CL:個|个[ge4],座[zuo4]
- to seek survival; to possess the will to live
- 刮 guā: 刮 gua1: to scrape; to blow; to shave; to plunder; to extort刮 guā: 刮 gua1: to blow (of the wind)
- north wind
- early morning; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to cross (a body of water)
- sperm whale; cachalot (Physeter macrocephalus)
- the surface of the sea; ocean surface
- plaything; toy
- to act jointly; to form a partnership
- fisherman