- skill; art
- excellent; superlative
- interest in dallying; in the mood for playing
- crimson
- cock; rooster
- swimming; to swim
- male; staminate; grand; imposing; powerful; mighty; person or state having great power and influence
- to harbor hard feelings
- fantasy (fiction)
- (of a road) bumpy; (of life) rough; to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes
- volcanic ash
- mottled; motley
- either side; both sides
- rhyming couplet; pair of lines of verse written vertically down the sides of a doorway; CL:副[fu4],幅[fu2]
- golden pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus)
- native dog; mole cricket (colloquial word for agricultural pest Gryllotalpa 螻蛄|蝼蛄[lou2 gu1])
- (literary) (swift like a) speeding horse
- to drown; to indulge; addicted to; to spoil (a child)
- bullshit; nonsense
- an urge to urinate
- lonely; secluded
- to pass water; to piss; to urinate; to wee wee
- likeness of a god or Buddha; (old) portrait of the deceased
- woodcut
- 10th earthly branch: 5-7 p.m., 8th solar month (8th September-7th October), year of the Rooster; ancient Chinese compass point: 270° (west)
- the 12 earthly branches 子[zi3], 丑[chou3], 寅[yin2], 卯[mao3], 辰[chen2], 巳[si4], 午[wu3], 未[wei4], 申[shen1], 酉[you3], 戌[xu1], 亥[hai4], used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
- 戌 qu: 戌 qu5: used in 屈戌兒|屈戌儿[qu1 qu5 r5]戌 xū: 戌 xu1: 11th earthly branch: 7-9 p.m., 9th solar month (8th October-6th November), year of the Dog; ancient Chinese compass point: 300°
- one of the twelve animals symbolic of the earthly branches 地支[di4 zhi1]; animal from the Chinese zodiac
- midday; noon; noonday