- short piece; article; short essay
- lit. to view the sky from the bottom of a well (idiom); ignorant and narrow-minded
- lit. use others' strengths to make up for one's weak points (idiom from Mencius); to use this in place of that; what you lose on the swings, you win on the roundabouts
- to correct an error
- to have a sense of shame
- to take revenge for a past insult; to expunge a disgrace or humiliation
- to claim credit for oneself
- to consider everyone else beneath one (idiom); so arrogant that no-one else matters; condescending; to go about with one's nose in the air
- to repair; to patch; to mend; to make up for; to fill (a vacancy); to supplement
- to lose one's life
- too late to be sorry
- to leave a message; to leave one's comments; message
- commandment; to prohibit
- to meet
- to raise (price etc)
- Zhou Yu (175-210), famous general of the southern Wu kingdom and victor of the battle of Redcliff; in Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义[San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4], absolutely no match for Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮[Zhu1 ge3 Liang4]
- as empty as anything (idiom); completely bereft; to have nothing; vacuous; hollow; empty (argument, head etc)
- two-character surname Zhuge; Taiwan pr. [Zhu1ge2]
- to have real skill; to know one's stuff
- to concede; to admit defeat
- wizard; magician
- candid; direct and to the point; simply; just; might as well
- hard; stiff; solid; (fig.) strong; firm; resolutely; uncompromisingly; laboriously; with great difficulty; good (quality); able (person); (of food) filling; substantial
- dirty soil; dung and dirt; (fig.) worthless thing
- to ask about; to make some inquiries; to ask around
- to stop on the way for a rest
- sleeping posture
- headrest
- to spread out; (fig.) to share equally
- one's two hands; two prongs (of a strategy); both aspects, eventualities etc; skills; expertise
- 叉 chà: 叉 cha4: used in 劈叉[pi3 cha4]; used in 分叉[fen1 cha4]叉 chǎ: 叉 cha3: to diverge; to open (as legs)叉 chā: 叉 cha1: fork; pitchfork; prong; pick; cross; intersect; "X"叉 chá: 叉 cha2: to cross; be stuck
- facial expression of good fortune; joyous and contented look
- to catch cold; Taiwan pr. [zhao1 liang2]
- (to stand or move) sideways
- to toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly); to repeat sth over and over again; to torment sb; to play crazy; to squander (time, money)
- absolutely not