- rare and precious; valuable; remarkable
- 炸 zhà: 炸 zha4: to burst; to explode; to blow up; to bomb; (coll.) to fly into a rage; (coll.) to scamper off; to scatter炸 zhá: 炸 zha2: to deep fry; (coll.) to blanch (a vegetable); Taiwan pr. [zha4]
- to explain (verbally); to give a running commentary
- (derog.) Buddhist monk
- bald-headed person; baldy
- to borrow sb's authority; to seize an opportunity
- brave; staunch; unyielding
- to anxiously await
- to have an urge; to be impetuous; impulse; urge
- unable to take one's eyes off (idiom); to gaze steadily; to stare
- machine; CL:臺|台[tai2],部[bu4],個|个[ge4]
- already fixed; set; established
- procedures; sequence; order; computer program
- afternoon; CL:個|个[ge4]; p.m.
- narrow
- alley
- space; room; (fig.) scope; leeway; (astronomy) outer space; (physics, math.) space
- lit. sth hits one in the face; directly in one's face; sth assaults the senses; blatant (advertising); eye-catching; (a smell) assaults the nostrils
- alley
- (taboo curse) damn it!; fucking
- narrow; narrow-minded; badly off
- rumor; gossip; to spread rumors
- prisoner; convict
- abbr. for 峴首山|岘首山[Xian4 shou3 shan1]; Mt Xianshou in Hubei; steep hill; used in place names
- to cut off; to sever
- dragon's vein, terrain that looks like a dragon
- naked eye; layman's eyes
- Northern and Southern dynasties (420-589)
- Liu Yu, founder of Song of the Southern dynasties 劉宋|刘宋[Liu2 Song4], broke away from Eastern Jin in 420, reigned as Emperor Wu of Song 宋武帝[Song4 Wu3 di4]
- Liang of the Southern dynasties (502-557)
- 萧 xiāo: 萧 xiao1: (old) Chinese mugwort; (bound form) desolate; dreary萧 Xiāo: 萧 Xiao1: surname Xiao
- to spread out; to develop; to overflow; to amplify; superfluous
- one of the given (options etc); the first; firstly
- secondly; the other (usu. of two); the second
- waterway
- to reach (a place) directly; (transportation) to reach the destination without changing service or without stopping; (of a train, flight etc) direct; nonstop
- navy (in Qing times)
- just recently; just a moment ago
- dejected; despondent; depressed
- shadow
- Longtan district of Jilin city 吉林市, Jilin province; see also 龍潭|龙潭[long2 tan2]; Longtan or Lungtan township in Taoyuan county 桃園縣|桃园县[Tao2 yuan2 xian4], north Taiwan