- to wind around; to wrap round; to coil; tangle; to involve; to bother; to annoy
- option; alternative; choice; to choose a project
- bow string; string of musical instrument; watchspring; chord (segment of curve); hypotenuse; CL:根[gen1]
- sound wave
- to tweak one's ears and scratch one's cheeks (as an expression of anxiety, delight, frustration etc) (idiom)
- to admit an error; to acknowledge one's mistake
- reluctant to leave; to hate to have to go; to recall fondly
- to hate to do sth; to hate to part with; to begrudge
- (it) hurts; sore; to love dearly
- to take seriously (often with negative expression: "don't take it too seriously"); to treat conscientiously
- honor does not allow one to glance back (idiom); duty-bound not to turn back; no surrender; to pursue justice with no second thoughts
- tight; strict; close at hand; near; urgent; tense; hard up; short of money; to tighten
- everything
- (of speech or actions) direct and efficient; without fooling around
- to wave; to brandish; to command; to conduct; to scatter; to disperse
- to add oil; to top up with gas; to refuel; to accelerate; to step on the gas; (fig.) to make an extra effort; to cheer sb on
- young successor; seedling; sapling
- (idiom) just as expected
- to be on the verge of saying what is on one's mind
- to dissipate
- dried out; wizened; shriveled
- thumb; big toe
- (onom.) bang; door banging shut
- human body
- to lose consciousness; to be in a coma; stupor; coma; stunned; disoriented
- (fig.) attractive and easy mark; source of steady profit; moneymaker; cash cow
- used in transliteration
- dark; hell; netherworld; hades
- evil spirit; devil
- heart; CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4]
- silence; stillness
- one's close relatives
- spouse (PRC); lover (non-PRC); CL:個|个[ge4]
- to count down; countdown
- Milano; Milan (Italy)
- facade; external wall
- pointed; tapering; sharp; (of a sound) shrill; piercing; (of one's hearing, sight etc) sharp; acute; keen; to make (one's voice) shrill; sharp point; tip; the best of sth; the cream of the crop
- pillar; CL:根[gen1]
- Gothic (style in architecture, art, literature etc)