- to inspect (a site); (of a dignitary) to visit; to go on an inspection tour; to survey (a scene); to scan with one's eyes
- road surface
- to use (sth) in an ingenious way; marvelously effective use
- manuscript of a book
- north; north side; northern part; to the north of
- to get dark; dusk
- to turn back
- regent; monarch
- to let sth slip by; to miss an opportunity
- object of ridicule; laughingstock; to laugh over sth; to make light chat
- no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom); also written 啞巴吃黃蓮|哑巴吃黄莲; (often precedes 有苦說不出|有苦说不出[you3 ku3 shuo1 bu5 chu1])
- to run into; to meet (unexpectedly); to bump into
- to be plagued with misfortunes; precarious
- to kill with an explosion
- 嘛 ma: 嘛 ma5: modal particle indicating that sth is obvious; particle indicating a pause for emphasis嘛 má: 嘛 ma2: used in 唵嘛呢叭咪吽[an3 ma2 ni2 ba1 mi1 hong1]; (Tw) (coll.) what?
- (often used disparagingly) feel-good motivational story or quote (from the Chinese translation of the title of the 1993 self-help bestseller "Chicken Soup for the Soul")
- every illness
- to torture; to torment
- diaphysis (long segment of a bone); fig. backbone
- see 新寧縣|新宁县[Xin1 ning2 Xian4]
- very short of (food, clean water etc); extreme shortage; deficit
- the entire sum; the whole amount
- to burn down; to destroy with fire
- outset; beginning
- to supervise; to oversee; to inspect