- (bound form) chisel; to bore a hole; to chisel; to dig; (literary) certain; authentic; irrefutable; also pr. [zuo4]
- quarter (hour); moment; to carve; to engrave; to cut; oppressive; classifier for short time intervals
- handwriting
- to feel about; to grope about; to fumble; to do things slowly
- 米 mǐ: 米 mi3: uncooked rice; meter (unit of length); (slang) Chinese yuan米 Mǐ: 米 Mi3: surname Mi
- technology; technique; skill; CL:門|门[men2],種|种[zhong3],項|项[xiang4]
- to excavate; (lit and fig.) to unearth; to dig into
- to go forward; to forge ahead; to advance; onward
- down; downward
- extremely
- winding; (fig.) complicated
- countless; innumerable
- side road; byway
- to have; to hold (usu. sth abstract: power, distribution rights, a bargaining chip etc)
- engineering; an engineering project; project; undertaking; CL:個|个[ge4],項|项[xiang4]
- correct; sound; right; proper
- to branch; to fork; fork; branch; bifurcation
- vine; also pr. [teng2 wan4]
- 加 jiā: 加 jia1: to add; (math.) plus; to increase; to augment; (used before a disyllabic verb, often after an adverb like 不[bu4], 大[da4], 稍[shao1] etc, to indicate that the action applies to sth previously mentioned, as in 稍加改良[shao1 jia1 gai3 liang2] "make some minor improvements to (it)")加 Jiā: 加 Jia1: Canada (abbr. for 加拿大[Jia1 na2 da4]); surname Jia
- length
- astonishing
- sometimes; now and then
- direction; orientation
- to return to; to come (or go) back
- middle section; middle period; middle area; mid-
- to dig out; to excavate; to scoop out; to start digging
- (geology) rock
- to have to; must; compulsory; necessarily
- to go by a roundabout route; to take a detour; (medicine or civil engineering) bypass
- huge rock; boulder; monolith
- a few years; several years; how many years?
- tool; instrument; utensil; means (to achieve a goal etc)
- can only; obliged to do sth; to have no other choice
- 镐 hào: 镐 hao4: bright; place name; stove镐 gǎo: 镐 gao3: a pick
- first; original; primitive; original (document etc)
- (idiom) over the years; year after year
- to impel; to carry forward; to push on; to advance; to drive forward
- life (one's time on earth)
- wall; rampart
- to exchange; to change (clothes etc); to substitute; to switch; to convert (currency)
- new type; new kind
- electric-powered; (Tw) video game