- to look forward to; to await; expectation
- to give no consideration to the bigger picture (usually implying selfishness)
- style; style of work; way
- to be late; to arrive slowly; to be slow in the coming
- to play (a card); to make a move in a game
- hard to tell (i.e. hard to judge or hard to predict); cannot bring oneself to say it
- mission; assignment; task; duty; role; CL:項|项[xiang4]
- trailer
- dry clay lump
- to become caught up in an irresolvable situation (idiom)
- hidden troops; ambush
- allied armies
- curve; curved line; indirect; in a roundabout way
- (of trains) down (i.e. away from the capital); (of river boats) to travel downstream; to issue (a document) to lower bureaucratic levels; (of writing on the page) vertical, proceeding from top to bottom
- trench; entrenchment
- each person; everybody; per person
- rice straw
- to pile up
- portion; part of; subset
- to excavate; (lit and fig.) to unearth; to dig into
- to charge
- sound of gunfire; fig. news of momentous events
- rain of blood; heavy rain colored by loess sandstorm
- artillery barrage; gunfire
- flintlock musket; fowling piece (shotgun); air gun
- noise
- 铅 qiān: 铅 qian1: lead (chemistry)铅 yán: 铅 yan2: used in 鉛山|铅山[Yan2 shan1] (the name of a place in Jiangxi)
- line of sight
- shabby
- determined; unshakable
- rate of consumption