- to flee for one's life
- on the edge of; (fig.) on the verge of; close to
- to use a credit card (or swipe card, smart card etc)
- to start using; (computing) to enable (a feature)
- office workers (as social group)
- gale; squall; whole gale (meteorology)
- sense of humor
- wild dog; feral dog; stray dog
- different; other; hetero-; unusual; strange; surprising; to distinguish; to separate; to discriminate
- steel reinforcing bar
- prefabricated; precut; to prefabricate
- smooth; level; to level off; to flatten (remove bumps)
- section; cross-cut; tangent plane (math.)
- hunting knife
- orangutan; (slang) dialect speaker whose speech is corrupted by Standard Mandarin
- birdcage
- a lantern or torchlight procession (resembling a fiery dragon)
- to reject; to exclude; to eliminate; to remove; to repel
- to burn
- flamingo
- during; at the time of
- to install (water pipes, landmines etc) underground
- stream of water (as from a fountain or a faucet); jet of water
- rooster
- to sculpt or mold a statue (by shaping a pliable material such as clay, plaster or wax, which may later be cast in metal – as distinct from carving in stone or wood); a statue created through such a process
- running water; tap water
- teachers and students
- searchlight
- mouth of a well
- earthquake bureau
- a common occurrence (idiom)
- high building; multistory building; skyscraper; CL:座[zuo4]
- to handle official business (usu. in an office); to do (office) work
- drowsy; sleepy (idiom)
- to experience a power outage; to have a power failure
- Zhongguancun neighborhood of Beijing, containing Peking University, famous for electronics shops and bookstores
- destination (location)
- (coll.) dude; buddy; bro