- to defend oneself; self-defense
- Catherine (name); Katherine
- to rehire retired personnel
- police officer; policeman (general term for any police officer); police constable (lowest rank in mainland China and Hong Kong)
- variegation; diversity
- to work as a police officer; to engage in police work
- (idiom) unknown; unrenowned
- corruption; to corrupt; to rot; rotten
- to misuse; to abuse
- (math.) single-variable; univariate
- Walmart (retailer)
- to improve one's appearance (using cosmetics or cosmetic surgery); to make oneself more attractive; to beautify
- gas station
- to set on fire; to commit arson
- 歪 wāi: 歪 wai1: askew; at a crooked angle; devious; noxious; (coll.) to lie on one's side歪 wǎi: 歪 wai3: to sprain (one's ankle) (Tw)
- not a soul in sight (idiom)
- to accompany
- to pull strings; to manipulate (a puppet); to control from behind the scene; to mediate
- (film industry) Oscar (Academy Award); CL:屆|届[jie4]; (name) Oscar
- to take a step; to stride
- 裁缝 cái féng: 裁缝 cai2 feng2: to make an item of clothing; to tailor裁缝 cái feng: 裁缝 cai2 feng5: tailor; dressmaker
- resident; inhabitant
- two sides; both sides
- front; obverse side; right side; positive; direct; open
- paint; lacquer; CL:道[dao4]; to paint (furniture, walls etc)
- 喷 pèn: 喷 pen4: (of a smell) strong; peak season (of a crop); (classifier for the ordinal number of a crop, in the context of multiple harvests)喷 pēn: 喷 pen1: to spout; to spurt; to spray; to puff; (slang) to criticize scathingly (esp. online)
- width; roll; classifier for textiles or pictures
- natural disaster
- disaster; catastrophe
- to oppress; to repress; to constrict; oppression; stress (physics)
- to confine; to imprison; prohibition; shackles; fetters
- to pile up; to accumulate without being dealt with
- inside the city
- pagoda (abbr. for 塔婆[ta3 po2], a loanword from Sanskrit stūpa); tower; pylon (CL:座[zuo4]); (loanword) (pastry) tart
- alone; by oneself; on one's own
- airport; airfield; (slang) service provider for Shadowsocks or similar software for circumventing Internet censorship; CL:家[jia1],處|处[chu4]
- to damage; to wreck; to destroy
- in private
- universal; general; widespread; common
- to belittle; to disparage; to play down; to demean; to degrade; to devalue
- to sense; to perceive; to become aware of; to detect