- physics; physical; relating to the material world
- to express; to describe
- to merge; to annex
- to shift; shift; translocation; displacement; (medicine) dislocation
- to restructure; to reorganize; to revamp
- to deepen
- (bound form) remote; out of the way; off-center; eccentric
- to spend the night; overnight
- to snore
- to farm; to work the land
- severe; harsh
- Five Dynasties, period of history between the fall of the Tang dynasty (907) and the founding of the Song dynasty (960), when five would-be dynasties were established in quick succession in North China
- for no reason at all
- wood
- fence
- to peel; to strip; to peel off; to come off (of tissue, skin, covering etc)
- (coll.) hour
- (onom.) creaking
- hinge
- confused; dizzy; fainting
- old man or woman; the elderly; one's aged parents or grandparents
- to charge
- hay
- 杈 chà: 杈 cha4: branches of a tree; fork of a tree杈 chā: 杈 cha1: fork of a tree; pitchfork
- to poke; to jab; to give (sb) a nudge; to prod; to disclose; to reveal
- beam
- old man; elderly man
- lit. robust years; prime of life; summer; able-bodied (fit for military service); mature (talent, garden etc)
- anxious and perplexed; uneasy and confused; suspicious and fearful
- (of a wound) to heal
- prejudice; bias
- hedge; fence; (fig.) barrier
- cock; rooster