- the 10 heavenly stems 甲[jia3], 乙[yi3], 丙[bing3], 丁[ding1], 戊[wu4], 己[ji3], 庚[geng1], 辛[xin1], 壬[ren2], 癸[gui3], used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers I, II etc
- dry; parched; impatient; vexed; (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [sao4]) minced meat
- to be unable to tolerate or endure; to find sth difficult to manage
- to wade; to trample
- slurry; mud
- floor; ground; surface
- lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units
- (dialect) firm; robust
- to stay for a time; to stop over; to lodge; to sink down (into soft ground); leftovers
- shoe; CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]
- to waste (one's energy etc)
- People's Bank of China (abbr. for 中國人民銀行|中国人民银行[Zhong1 guo2 Ren2 min2 Yin2 hang2])
- bypath; trail; bribery as a means of achieving a goal; minor arts (Confucian reference to agriculture, medicine, divination, and other professions unworthy of a gentleman)
- not in such a way as to; not likely to
- shoe
- stretch of road; section of a highway or railway
- vehicle
- road surface
- top (of the head); apex; to fall forwards; inverted; to jolt
- cleaner; janitor; garbage collector
- to tidy up; to mop up; a sweep (against crime)
- 扫 sào: 扫 sao4: (bound form) a (large) broom扫 sǎo: 扫 sao3: to sweep (with a brush or broom); to sweep away; to wipe out; to get rid of; to sweep (one's eyes etc) over; to scan
- earth; soil; mud; clay
- profit (colloquial)
- to be windy
- dust; (soil taxonomy) spodosol
- whole city
- to pave (with paving stones); to lay a road; (fig.) to lay the groundwork (for sth); to give a present to sb to ensure success
- memorial activity 35 days after a person's death
- to alter; to modify; to revise
- lighting; illumination; to light up; to illuminate
- additional; annex
- the late; deceased