- to be on tenterhooks (idiom); to be anxious and frightened
- to serve a prison sentence
- (included) in it; among them
- to transfer (a case, a person, files etc)
- see 德令哈市[De2 ling4 ha1 Shi4]
- height above sea level; elevation
- plateau; CL:片[pian4]
- oasis
- Tibetan ethnic group
- herdsman
- (of a group of people) to live scattered over an area
- convict; prisoner; criminal
- to plow; to turn the soil
- barley
- north; (classical) to be defeated
- Qilian Mountains (formerly Richthofen Range), dividing Qinghai and Gansu provinces
- peaks and ridges; ragged outline of mountain peaks
- to stretch in an unbroken chain (esp. of mountains)
- Tsaidam or Qaidam basin (Mongolian: salt marsh), depression northeast of the Plateau of Tibet, located between the Qilian Shan and the Kunlun Shan at the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau.
- sand dune; sandy hill
- Gobi (desert)
- (idiom) continuous; unending
- in ancient times; in olden days
- Qinghai Lake (Tibetan: mtsho-sngon)
- salt water; brine
- lake
- territory
- boundary; border
- over and above (some amount); beyond (budget)
- 筑 zhù: 筑 zhu4: five-string lute; Taiwan pr. [zhu2]筑 Zhù: 筑 Zhu4: short name for Guiyang 貴陽|贵阳[Gui4 yang2]筑 zhù: 筑 zhu4: to build; to construct; to ram; to hit; Taiwan pr. [zhu2]
- to flee from sth; to run away; to escape
- 下场 xià chǎng: 下场 xia4 chang3: to leave (the stage, an exam room, the playing field etc); to take part in some activity; to take an examination (in the imperial examination system)下场 xià chang: 下场 xia4 chang5: the end; to conclude
- to dry out; to extract water; dehydration; dehydrated; desiccation
- to die; to lose; to be gone; to flee; deceased
- corpse; dead body
- vulture; (bird species of China) cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus)
- to crush; to smash; to shatter
- to weave; to plait; to organize; to group; to arrange; to edit; to compile; to write; to compose; to fabricate; to make up