- name; designation; item; rubric; (formal usage) fame
- flute
- top scorer in the palace examination (highest rank of the Imperial examination system); see 榜眼[bang3 yan3] and 探花[tan4 hua1]; top scorer in college entrance examination 高考[gao1 kao3]; (fig.) the most brilliantly talented person in the field; leading light
- skill; ability; capability; CL:項|项[xiang4],個|个[ge4]
- 匙 chí: 匙 chi2: spoon匙 shi: 匙 shi5: used in 鑰匙|钥匙[yao4 shi5]
- thick soup
- to ladle out; to scoop up
- bowl; cup; CL:隻|只[zhi1],個|个[ge4]
- bamboo shoot tip
- good-looking; nice-looking; (of a movie, book, TV show etc) good; in an embarrassing situation
- 鲜 xiān: 鲜 xian1: fresh; bright (in color); delicious; tasty; delicacy; aquatic foods鲜 xiǎn: 鲜 xian3: few; rare鲜 xiān: 鲜 xian1: fish
- sweet; (fig.) pleasant; endearing; lovely
- to scoop out; to gouge out
- (to do sth) separately; as a separate action
- 嵌 kǎn: 嵌 kan3: see 赤嵌樓|赤嵌楼[Chi4 kan3 lou2]嵌 qiàn: 嵌 qian4: to inlay; to embed; Taiwan pr. [qian1]
- to taste; to try (food); to experience; (literary) ever; once
- partridge
- turtledove
- 大拇指 dà mu zhǐ: 大拇指 da4 mu5 zhi3: thumb大拇指 Dà mu zhǐ: 大拇指 Da4 mu5 zhi3: Tom Thumb (small person in folk tales)
- my (your etc) old father; polite appellation for an elderly male
- same; like; equal to; the same as; just like
- some; somewhat; rather; a bit
- to talk in riddles
- Shijing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經|五经[Wu3 jing1]
- to wave the hand (to say goodbye, or in a negative gesture); crank handle
- lit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head); I don't understand a word (idiom); it's all Greek to me
- 花 huā: 花 hua1: flower; blossom; CL:朵[duo3],支[zhi1],束[shu4],把[ba3],盆[pen2],簇[cu4]; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful花 Huā: 花 Hua1: surname Hua花 huā: 花 hua1: flower; blossom; also pr. [wei3]
- lit. cherry mouth (idiom); fig. a delicate, ruby-lipped mouth
- 美 měi: 美 mei3: beautiful; very satisfactory; good; to beautify; to be pleased with oneself美 Měi: 美 Mei3: (bound form) the Americas (abbr. for 美洲[Mei3 zhou1]); (bound form) USA (abbr. for 美國|美国[Mei3 guo2])
- (bound form) bamboo; Kangxi radical 118
- lacking in confidence; diffident; to have a guilty conscience
- nobleman; person of noble character
- lotus flower (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn, among others); water-lily
- bamboo shoot
- female; Taiwan pr. [ci1]