- strict; rigorous; severely
- to punish; to handle; to deal with (literary)
- crop land; arable land
- to fine; penalty; fine (monetary)
- to detain sb; to hold sb against their will; to withhold (property, documents, funds etc)
- (idiom) defiant of the law and lacking any sense of morality; lawless; out of control; unruly
- interest (on a loan); CL:筆|笔[bi3]
- high-interest loan; usury
- sapling; young tree
- (agriculture) busy season; peak farming season
- to hasten home for the funeral of a parent or grandparent
- to skip work; absence without leave
- approved for distribution; to provide (wages etc) as usual (e.g. while an employee is on maternity leave)
- bee colony; swarm; CL:隊|队[dui4]
- can be regarded as; qualifies as (something positive)
- to resign oneself to part with what one treasures
- to consider past cause and future effect (idiom); to think over the past and future; to ponder over reasons and connection
- to think critically; (philosophy) to reason; to speculate
- to idle; to waste time
- perspicacious and impartial in judgment (idiom)
- to open up; to set up; to establish
- 麦 Mài: 麦 Mai4: surname Mai麦 mài: 麦 mai4: wheat; barley; oats; mic (abbr. for 麥克風|麦克风[mai4 ke4 feng1])
- onion (Allium cepa); bulb onion
- (lit. and fig.) to soar; to shoot upwards
- enthusiasm for doing sth
- early in the morning
- threshing floor
- to skin; to flay; to peel; (fig.) (coll.) to haul (sb) over the coals; also pr. [bo1pi2]
- white poplar (Populus bonatii)
- 桁 háng: 桁 hang2: cangue (stocks to punish criminals)桁 héng: 桁 heng2: pole plate; purlin (cross-beam in roof); ridge-pole
- beam; rafter
- to rise; to fly upward
- 呛 qiàng: 呛 qiang4: to irritate the nose; to choke (of smoke, smell etc); pungent; (coll.) (Tw) to shout at sb; to scold; to speak out against sb呛 qiāng: 呛 qiang1: to choke (because of swallowing the wrong way)
- bits; fragments; crumbs; filings; trifling; trivial; to condescend to
- to flutter; to flap
- 栖 xī: 栖 xi1: used in 棲棲|栖栖[xi1 xi1]栖 qī: 栖 qi1: to perch; to rest (of birds); to dwell; to live; to stay
- to well up; to boil out; to bubble forth; to spurt
- beam; rafter; lintel; person able to bear heavy responsibility; mainstay (of organization); pillar (of state)
- uneven; injustice; unfairness; wrong; grievance; indignant; dissatisfied
- see 乾脆利落|干脆利落[gan1 cui4 li4 luo5]
- slow; unhurried; sluggish; gradual; not tense; relaxed; to postpone; to defer; to stall; to stave off; to revive; to recuperate