- to move back and forth; to fiddle with
- front part; front section
- back section
- oar
- to detour; to bypass; to circumvent; to avoid; to wind around (of a road etc)
- 钻 zuān: 钻 zuan1: to drill; to bore; to get into; to make one's way into; to enter (a hole); to thread one's way through; to study intensively; to dig into; to curry favor for personal gain钻 zuàn: 钻 zuan4: drill; auger; diamond
- to hang (down); droop; dangle; bend down; hand down; bequeath; nearly; almost; to approach
- curved; meandering; zigzagging
- criss-crossed (idiom)
- rope
- to drip; to trickle; to shed (tears)
- circumstances; situation; CL:個|个[ge4]
- canal
- net; web; network; to net; to catch with a net
- to diverge; to divert; to divide into separate streams (river flow, traffic etc); to stream (students into different programs); to reassign (redundant staff)
- deep; profound; (of a person) reserved; undemonstrative; (of a voice, sound etc) deep; low-pitched
- only if (..., or otherwise, ...); only when; only in the case that; unless
- to suss out; to figure out; to ascertain
- lit. an easy drive on a familiar path (idiom); fig. experience makes progress easy; a task that is so familiar one can do it with one's hand tied behind one's back
- outsider; foreigner; stranger
- easy; with no difficulty
- to push aside; to part; to brush away
- to droop; to hang low
- (of a meteor etc) to streak across (the sky); (of a searchlight, lightning etc) to play across (the sky)
- meandering and circuitous (idiom); complicated developments that never get anywhere; going around in circles
- artificial; manpower; manual work
- to excavate; (lit and fig.) to unearth; to dig into
- gutter
- waterbird
- (idiom) to rise into the air
- sticky; glutinous; (Tw) to adhere; to stick on; to glue
- 滑 huá: 滑 hua2: to slip; to slide; slippery; smooth; sly; slippery; not to be trusted滑 Huá: 滑 Hua2: surname Hua
- eel
- lit. to behave like a thief; furtive; underhand
- to get into; to dig into (studies, job etc); to squeeze into
- tree roots
- to withdraw; to pull back; to contract; to shrink; to reduce; abbreviation; also pr. [su4]
- silt; sludge; ooze
- to sleep soundly; to fall into a deep sleep
- (zoology) caiman