- tail; colloquial pr. [yi3 ba5]
- rainbow
- 尾 wěi: 尾 wei3: tail; remainder; remnant; extremity; sixth of the 28 constellations; classifier for fish尾 yǐ: 尾 yi3: horse's tail; pointed posterior section of a locust etc
- to turn over; to transform
- Altair (star); Cowherd of the folk tale Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女
- to rake with machine gunfire; to strafe; to machine-gun down
- Vega, brightest star in constellation Lyra 天琴星座
- variation
- astronomy
- lonely; lonesome; (of a place) quiet; silent
- (of a meteor etc) to streak across (the sky); (of a searchlight, lightning etc) to play across (the sky)
- supernatural beings
- critical opportunity
- to detain; to hold back by force; to buckle; to hook
- to spread; to disperse; to disseminate
- achievement; accomplishment; (in more recent usage) performance (of a business, employee etc); results
- (coll.) maybe; perhaps
- well-known for sth; to become well known; to make one's mark; to lend one's name (to an event, endeavor etc)
- to kill; to cause death; to do sb to death
- fuse (for an explosive device); electrical lead; intermediary; catalyst; (dialect) sewing needle
- to ignite; to detonate
- 艾 ài: 艾 Ai4: surname Ai艾 ài: 艾 ai4: Chinese mugwort (Artemisia); moxa; used in transliteration
- 穆 mù: 穆 mu4: solemn; reverent; calm; burial position in an ancestral tomb (old)穆 Mù: 穆 Mu4: surname Mu
- grief; remorse; deep in sorrow; bitter (anguish); profound (condolences)
- to have reached the highest official positions
- the grass roots; the hoi polloi
- (literary) why; how
- (indicating that sth turns out just the opposite of what one would wish) unfortunately; as it happened; (indicating that sth is the opposite of what would be normal or reasonable) stubbornly; contrarily; against reason; (indicating that sb or a group is singled out) precisely; only; of all people
- to mix; to blend; (fig.) to spoil; to mess up things; (fig.) to run around with (sb); to get involved with; to mix (with other people)
- lit. not close one's eyes after dying (idiom); fig. to die with an unresolved grievance
- infamy; blackened name
- to undertake; to assume (responsibility etc)
- to be afraid of the consequences; restraining fear
- to itch; to tickle
- to bemoan the state of the universe and pity the fate of mankind