- to cover; to mask; to cover up or conceal (the truth etc)
- to hide; to evade; to dodge; to take shelter; to avoid (difficulties)
- lit. don't sit under the eaves (where tiles may fall from the roof) (idiom); fig. keep out of danger
- 徼 jiào: 徼 jiao4: boundary; to go around徼 jiǎo: 徼 jiao3: by mere luck
- central room of a traditional Chinese house
- to fall; to drop
- habit; hobby
- to clean; to clean up; to eliminate; to wipe out
- not to allow; must not; can't
- rare; infrequent
- mysophobia; obsession with cleanliness; extreme fastidiousness
- for a long time
- (bound form) narrow; (bound form) a defile; a narrow pass
- superfluous; cumbersome; a burden on sb; a nuisance to sb; to inconvenience; to tie sb down; long-winded (of writing); also pr. [lei2 zhui5]
- neatly; tidy
- one's passion; one's obsession
- to clean; to sweep
- to permit; to allow
- eleventh lunar month
- stove
- to put on clothes; to get dressed
- brim (of a hat)
- face
- to freeze; to feel very cold; aspic or jelly
- outer ear; auricle; pinna
- edge; fringe; verge; brink; periphery; marginal; borderline
- earlobe
- frostbite
- maybe; possibly; there is reason to believe
- tube; cylinder; to encase in sth cylindrical (such as hands in sleeves etc)
- to try (to see what it's like or whether one can do it)
- (coll.) no good; of no use
- fashionable; popular
- similar; analogous
- ancient bamboo reed instrument; Chinese shawm (probably related to central Asian zurna)
- popularity; presence of people; liveliness
- not very; not particularly
- useless
- (literary) to look over; to view
- attention; to stare at; to fix attention on sth
- to look over