- tentacles; feelers; antennae
- to fish with a hook and line; to angle
- (mild insult) fool; idiot; (playful) silly person
- empty-handed; unarmed; (painting, embroidery etc) without following a model; (abbr. for 空手道[kong1 shou3 dao4]) karate
- (in) return; reciprocation; payback; retaliation; to report back; to reciprocate
- to summon one's courage
- residence; dwelling; abode
- heroic spirit; heroism
- unrivalled; matchless
- a stretch (of one's body)
- immediately; at once; at that moment; at the moment
- to have a taste of; to sample
- beast; wild animal
- heroic; gallant; valiant
- hesitancy; indecision; to waver
- to manipulate; manipulation
- to guard
- unexpectedly; to one's surprise; go so far as to
- 所长 sǔo zhǎng: 所长 suo3 zhang3: director; head of an institute, office or station所长 sǔo cháng: 所长 suo3 chang2: what one is good at; one's strong point
- to protrude; to stick out
- to drag along; to haul; (fig.) to procrastinate; shilly-shallying; sluggish; (computing) drag and drop; (loanword) tola, unit of weight, approx. 11.664 grams
- lit. to submit to having one's hands tied and being taken prisoner (idiom); fig. to surrender without a fight
- to bleed; to shed blood
- to arrange; to order about; to manipulate
- to eat; to take food
- to stand a siege; trapped in a besieged city
- lit. you hoodwink me and I cheat you (idiom); fig. each tries to outwit the other; deceit and treachery
- delighted; to one's heart's content; straightforward; also pr. [tong4 kuai5]
- at ease; to feel relieved; to set one's mind at rest; to keep one's mind on sth
- to be full of remorse; to repent and redress one's errors
- evening meal; dinner; CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4],次[ci4]
- to eat one's fill; to be full
- to have one's heart filled with; (to collide) full on; (of farm animals) heavy with young
- to escape without trace (idiom); to make one's getaway (from the scene of a crime); to show a clean pair of heels
- firmly; safely
- to cut up (into pieces); to slice; to carve; to dice; to shred
- fragment
- anxiety; anxious
- precipice; cliff; Taiwan pr. [yai2]