- to be patient; patience
- for the time being; tentatively
- clear-headed; sober; awake
- injection; to inject
- medicine; medicament; drug; chemical compound
- to exploit; to make use of; to use; to take advantage of; to utilize
- to write down
- to count down; countdown
- swelling; oedema; internal bruising
- unknown; unable to find out
- precious
- 涨 zhǎng: 涨 zhang3: to rise (of prices, rivers)涨 zhàng: 涨 zhang4: to swell; to distend
- to swell; to bulge
- two sides; both sides
- to be pregnant; to produce offspring; to nurture (a development, school of thought, artwork etc); fig. replete with (culture etc)
- lit. like thunder piercing the ear; a well-known reputation (idiom)
- column; cylinder
- to take; to pick (flowers, fruit etc); to pluck; to remove; to take off (glasses, hat etc); to select; to pick out; to borrow money at a time of urgent need
- botanical garden; arboretum
- hell; underworld; (Buddhism) Naraka; (coll.) (of humor, jokes, content etc) extremely dark or morally transgressive
- (of a surgeon) to perform an operation; (of a patient) to have an operation; to decapitate; to behead; to single out as a point of attack
- easy; with no difficulty
- thick and thin; coarse and fine; thickness (caliber); coarseness; quality of work
- (drinking) straw; pipette; eyedropper; snorkel; CL:支[zhi1]
- to insert; to stick in; to plug in
- belly; abdomen; stomach; CL:個|个[ge4]
- big and strong; formidable; powerful
- (onom.) thump; thud
- to survive; remnant
- sensitive; susceptible
- to be used for
- to count; reckoning
- (one's) last straw to clutch at; one's last hope
- in total; altogether
- soft; flexible
- 嗒 dā: 嗒 da1: (onom.) used in words that describe machine gunfire, the ticking of a clock or the clatter of horse hooves etc嗒 tà: 嗒 ta4: used in 嗒然[ta4 ran2] and 嗒喪|嗒丧[ta4 sang4]
- vacuum cleaner; dust catcher