- to hold; to grasp; to clench (one's fist); (bound form) to have in one's control; classifier: a handful
- to recognize; to identify
- invisible
- austere; stern; harsh; somber and desolate (autumn or winter)
- brilliant; impressive; outstanding
- a piece; a chunk; (fig.) (coll.) (typically preceded by a specifier such as 這|这[zhe4]) aspect; area; dimension (Example: 情感這一塊|情感这一块[qing2 gan3 zhe4 yi1 kuai4] "the emotional aspect (of it)"); (coll.) one yuan; a dollar; together; in the same place; in company
- arc (segment of a circle)
- to congeal; to concentrate attention; to stare
- in midair; in the air
- pressing in on one's eyelashes (idiom); imminent
- barely; only; merely; only (this and nothing more)
- lightning attack; Blitzkrieg
- skill; technique
- lever; pry bar; crowbar; financial leverage
- to transmit; to pass on to sb else; (math.) transitive
- 力 lì: 力 li4: power; force; strength; ability; strenuously力 Lì: 力 Li4: surname Li
- weak; feeble; young; inferior; not as good as; (following a decimal or fraction) slightly less than
- not able to see clearly
- (martial arts) horse stance (with legs wide apart, as when riding a horse)
- to stagger; to stumble; to reel; Taiwan pr. [lie4ju1]
- to stop; to resist; to obstruct
- unobstructed; clear; (of writing or thinking) coherent; fluent
- bee; wasp
- thus; consequently; as a result
- jade
- to forge (metal); (fig.) to create; to build; to develop
- to arise; to come into being; to come about; to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate
- theatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc); dramatic (change, increase etc); acute; severe
- to stir; to prod; to poke; to move sideways; to strum (on a guitar etc)
- copper (chemistry); see also 紅銅|红铜[hong2 tong2]; CL:塊|块[kuai4]
- reed (of a music instrument); spring; coil
- by means of; through; with the help of
- to recoil; to draw back; to fall back; to retreat
- 狄 dí: 狄 di2: low ranking public official (old)狄 Dí: 狄 Di2: surname Di; generic name for northern ethnic minorities during the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 BC-220 AD)
- somewhat; to some extent
- demon; evil spirit
- to blend into; to integrate; to assimilate; to merge
- air; atmosphere
- to flash
- 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