- cork
- hardwood
- to make fire
- lit. so numerous that one could just bend down and pick them up (idiom); fig. extremely common; easily available
- spring (small stream); mouth of a spring; coin (archaic)
- to sit and wait for death (idiom); resigned to one's fate
- suffering
- to eat one's fill
- pain; (of a body part) to be painful; to be sore; to hurt; (of a person) to be in pain
- lit. to have no strategy to apply (idiom); fig. to be out of ideas; at one's wit's end
- busy with
- consistent; constant; from start to finish; all along; persistent
- to pursue; to chase after; to accelerate; to catch up with; to overtake
- disturbance; uproar; CL:陣|阵[zhen4]; to become restless
- to tear at (with the teeth, like one animal attacking another)
- bow and arrow
- to lose one's head out of fear (idiom)
- hasty; hurried
- white hair (of animals); see also 白髮|白发[bai2 fa4]
- stupefied; stunned
- to pace back and forth; to dither; to hesitate; (of sales figures etc) to fluctuate
- frenetic; hurried
- presumably; probably; in all likelihood; surely
- Persia
- to urge to stay; to detain
- bite (e.g. snake bite, mosquito bite)
- incubation period (of disease)
- devastation; miserable condition
- skin and flesh; the physical body; (fig.) the superficial layer; surface aspects
- bone; CL:根[gen1],塊|块[kuai4]; moral character; bitterness; Taiwan pr. [gu2 tou5]
- to cover; to encase; cover; sheath; to overlap; to interleave; to model after; to copy; formula; harness; loop of rope; (fig.) to fish for; to obtain slyly; classifier for sets, collections; bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names); tau (Greek letter Ττ)
- genius
- (of a contagious disease etc) to spread; to propagate; (of a style of clothing, song etc) popular; fashionable
- 壮 Zhuàng: 壮 Zhuang4: Zhuang ethnic group, the largest ethnic minority in China壮 zhuàng: 壮 zhuang4: to strengthen; strong; robust
- courage; nerve; guts
- dying; at one's last gasp
- to live one's life; to make a living