- weir
- dike; Taiwan pr. [ti2]
- to diverge; to divert; to divide into separate streams (river flow, traffic etc); to stream (students into different programs); to reassign (redundant staff)
- water outlet; drainage outlet
- excavator; backhoe
- 铲 chǎn: 铲 chan3: to scrape the ground with a spade (to make it level or to remove weeds); to shovel铲 chǎn: 铲 chan3: (bound form) spade; shovel
- to fill up
- trolley; cart; barrow; handcart; wheelbarrow; baby buggy
- classifier for vehicles
- building; construction; civil engineering
- Olympic Games; the Olympics (abbr. for 奧林匹克運動會|奥林匹克运动会[Ao4 lin2 pi3 ke4 Yun4 dong4 hui4])
- to start (a building project)
- hydraulic engineering
- Cologne, Germany; Colón, Panama
- to take over (duties etc); catcher (baseball etc)
- building materials
- to grow; to increase
- brief and to the point (idiom); succinct
- to stop; to bar the way
- to be oriented towards; orientation
- to be lower than
- salary; wages
- manpower; labor power
- to overflow; to inundate; to flood; (fig.) to proliferate unchecked
- (of wind etc) to subside; to die down; to quell; to smooth over (a dispute etc); to suppress (a rebellion etc)
- to flow back; reflux; circumfluence; refluence; backward flow; returning flow (e.g. of talent)
- to waste; to spend; to consume; to squander
- mouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc); classifier for bites or mouthfuls
- to perish; to be killed
- to collapse
- to withdraw troops; to retreat
- to-and-fro tussle; closely-fought contest
- to sail; to fly; to navigate
- to go out to sea; (neologism) to expand into overseas markets
- rapid (flow of water)
- 泥 ní: 泥 ni2: mud; clay; paste; pulp泥 nì: 泥 ni4: restrained
- to silt up; silt; sediment; ooze; slurry
- to meet with many difficulties in one's life (idiom)