- beat (music); meter
- to entertain; to amuse; entertainment; recreation; amusement; hobby; fun; joy
- within; less than
- neck; CL:個|个[ge4]
- blood
- to fall back; to go in reverse
- (after a verb) a bit; a little (indicating brief duration, or softening the tone, or suggesting giving sth a try); all at once; suddenly
- to wash; to cleanse
- to clean up
- the seven apertures of the human head: 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, 1 mouth
- Qiang flute
- 剡 yǎn: 剡 yan3: sharp剡 shàn: 剡 shan4: river in Zhejiang
- 洞 tóng: 洞 tong2: used in 洪洞[Hong2 tong2] (the name of a place in Shanxi)洞 dòng: 洞 dong4: cave; hole; zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers); CL:個|个[ge4]
- (Western) concert flute
- unknown; unclear
- graceful; fine; elegant
- 刮 guā: 刮 gua1: to scrape; to blow; to shave; to plunder; to extort刮 guā: 刮 gua1: to blow (of the wind)
- Xun County or Xunxian, a county in Hebi City 鶴壁市|鹤壁市[He4 bi4 Shi4], Henan
- to grind; study; research
- catastrophe; cataclysmic change
- homework; assignment; task; classwork; lesson; study; CL:門|门[men2]
- court councilor
- to mean; to imply
- to hate out of jealousy; to resent
- public execution (old)
- the not-very-distant past; modern times, excluding recent decades; (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919); capitalist times (pre-1949)
- to break or cut in two; to sever; to cut off; (fig.) to cut off (a conversation, a flow etc); to interrupt; (math.) to truncate
- aperture; hole; cavity
- to be proficient in; to master (a subject)
- promoter; advocate; driving force; pushing hands (two-person training routine esp. in t'ai chi)
- "Shiming", late Han dictionary, containing 1502 entries, using puns on the pronunciation of headwords to explain their meaning
- pipa, Chinese lute, with 4 strings, a large pear-shaped body and a fretted fingerboard
- see 琵琶, pipa lute
- see 琵琶, pipa lute
- musician
- finger; CL:個|个[ge4],隻|只[zhi1]
- to move to and fro (with hand, foot, stick etc); to fiddle with; to stir up
- (raw) material; data; (fig.) person who has the potential to do the job