- to compete with; to vie with; to counter
- perianth (common term for calyx and corolla); border and protecting envelope of a flower
- 颇 Pō: 颇 Po1: surname Po; Taiwan pr. [Po3]颇 pō: 颇 po1: rather; quite; considerably; oblique; inclined; slanting; Taiwan pr. [po3]
- veiled criticism
- cowardly; weak
- top-notch; first-rate
- to execute; to handle; behavior; action; conduct
- style; style of work; way
- cannot bear to see; to hate; to dislike; to disapprove
- culture; civilization; cultural; CL:個|个[ge4],種|种[zhong3]
- how can this be so? (idiom); preposterous; ridiculous; absurd
- to laugh heartily; a belly laugh
- laughter
- cheerful and lighthearted; lively
- to satirize; to mock; irony; satire; sarcasm
- evening; night; late
- to reprimand; to rebuke; to berate; stern criticism
- fart; flatulence; nonsense; (usu. in the negative) what; (not) a damn thing
- matter of life and death
- to cough; CL:陣|阵[zhen4]
- pincer attack; attack from two or more sides; converging attack; attack on a flank; fork in chess, with one piece making two attacks
- to give a hollow laugh; to force a smile; forced laugh; CL:聲|声[sheng1]
- to draw close to
- pawn; lackey; accomplice (in crime); collaborator; henchman; claws and teeth
- to interrupt (sb speaking); interruption; digression
- to be scared out of one's wits; to scare stiff
- letter; epistle
- to hand over; to pass on; to deliver; (bound form) progressively; in the proper order
- ashamed
- to read aloud with expression; to recite; to declaim
- small number; few; minority
- to choose (literary)
- to resent; resentment
- to forecast; to predict
- eyeball; (fig.) attention
- 撇 piē: 撇 pie1: to cast away; to fling aside撇 piě: 撇 pie3: to throw; to cast; left-slanting downward brush stroke (calligraphy)
- to curl one's lip; to twitch one's mouth