- lit. to drive a duck onto a perch (idiom); fig. to push sb to do sth way beyond their ability
- senior figure; doyen; founding member; veteran
- to assist (usually a ruler)
- wholeheartedness; sincerity
- name; term of address; title
- contrary; pushing against; bump; knock; used as equivalent for 搶|抢[qiang1]
- variegated; heterogeneous; to refute; to contradict; to ship by barge; a barge; a lighter (ship)
- lattice; check (pattern of squares)
- to embody; to reflect; to incarnate
- pure color; solid color
- youth; youthfulness
- brand; brand name
- England
- to select; to choose; to settle on
- to bestow (a reward); to give (to an inferior); to hand down; a reward (bestowed by a superior); to appreciate (beauty)
- sign; trademark; brand
- what one has seen and heard; knowledge; one's experience
- shoe
- family influential for generations; aristocratic family
- 毛 máo: 毛 mao2: hair; feather; down; wool; mildew; mold; coarse or semifinished; young; raw; careless; unthinking; nervous; scared; (of currency) to devalue or depreciate; classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角[jiao3] , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分[fen1])毛 Máo: 毛 Mao2: surname Mao
- 发包 fā bāo: 发包 fa1 bao1: to put out to contract发包 fà bāo: 发包 fa4 bao1: bun hair extension
- Los Angeles, California
- Hollywood; also pr. [Hao3lai2wu1]
- location; site
- make-up artist; (fig.) spin doctor; reputation manager
- to gather (in a crowd); to converge; to swarm
- 金刚 jīn gāng: 金刚 jin1 gang1: diamond; (used to translate Sanskrit "vajra", a thunderbolt or mythical weapon); guardian deity (in Buddhist iconography)金刚 Jīn gāng: 金刚 Jin1 gang1: King Kong
- ornament; ornamentation
- firearm
- arc
- congratulatory gift
- fickle; (math.) multivariate