- back (of a human or other vertebrate, or of an object)
- movement; motion; action; to act; to move
- cruel; merciless; ruthless
- 扎 zhā: 扎 zha1: to prick; to run or stick (a needle etc) into; mug or jug used for serving beer (loanword from "jar")扎 zhá: 扎 zha2: used in 掙扎|挣扎[zheng1 zha2]扎 zhā: 扎 zha1: (of troops) to be stationed (at); Taiwan pr. [zha2]扎 zā: 扎 za1: to tie; to bind; classifier for flowers, banknotes etc: bundle; Taiwan pr. [zha2]
- knife blade; crucial point
- vertebra; backbone
- hot blood; warm-blooded (animal); endothermic (physiology)
- to seep out; to exude
- spinning top; gyroscope
- to throw down; to fall; to drop and break
- nighttime; evening or night (e.g. classes)
- to worry; to be concerned
- remorse; repentance
- cool; refreshing; (of clothing) skimpy; revealing
- to urge (an activity that may be beneficial, harmful or neutral); to encourage; to agitate; to instigate; to incite; to beat; to flap (wings, a fan etc)
- upper class
- to think deeply; to ponder
- one time (all the way through); once through
- upright; erect; to straighten up (one's back etc); to hold erect
- troops; subordinates; (honorific appellation for a general)
- calm and composed (idiom)
- hot-headed; impulsive; reckless
- to kill
- to expose; to reveal; to lay bare; also pr. [pu4 lu4]
- (gymnastics) to do a bridge; to do a crab
- to become deformed; to change shape; to morph
- indefinite; indeterminate; (botany) adventitious
- opportunity to live; hope of success; vigor; vitality
- palpitation
- to have one's hair stand on end (idiom); to feel one's blood run cold
- tool; device; utensil; equipment; instrument; talent; ability; to possess; to have; to provide; to furnish; to state; classifier for devices, coffins, dead bodies
- to hide; to go into hiding; to take refuge
- to surge up violently (of ocean, river, lake etc); turbulent
- spirit weary, strength exhausted (idiom); spent; drained; washed out