- a trick; an ingenious method; know-how; the knack (of doing sth)
- to puncture; to lay bear or expose (lies etc)
- graceful words, flowery speech (idiom); elegant but insincere words; cheating wheedling; dishonest rhetoric
- to fail to see the larger issue (idiom); to fail to grasp the big picture
- 媳妇 xí fù: 媳妇 xi2 fu4: daughter-in-law; wife of a younger brother or relative of the younger generation媳妇 xí fu: 媳妇 xi2 fu5: (dialect) wife; (dialect) young married woman
- insincerity; hypocrisy; insincerely
- 翁 Wēng: 翁 Weng1: surname Weng翁 wēng: 翁 weng1: elderly man; father; father-in-law; neck feathers of a bird (old)
- maternal uncle
- old; aged; (of calligraphy or painting) vigorous; forceful
- in the past; formerly
- to think of oneself as terrific (idiom); arrogant
- flippant and insincere (piece of writing or speech); glib-tongued; oily
- to cover up; to conceal; to mask; to gloss over
- just like; solemn; dignified; neatly laid out
- ample; complete; hundred percent; a pure shade (of some color)
- to pay respects; to wish good health; in Qing times, a specific form of salutation (see also 打千[da3 qian1])
- so as not to; so as to avoid
- to bleed; to shed blood
- relative superiority (better or worse, stronger or weaker, above or below etc)
- to match one's strength with; to compete; more competitive; to set oneself against sb; disobliging; to make a special effort
- due to; as a result of; thanks to; owing to; since; because
- to meet force with force; painstaking
- to zealously continue fighting
- to save sb's life; (interj.) Help!; Save me!
- to double; to redouble; to increase many times over; to multiply by a factor; multiplication
- to puncture; to pierce
- poison
- scarlet; bright red
- to run like the wind; to rush; to gallop
- to climb up (a rope etc); climbing (plant)
- rushed and muddled
- 稽 Jī: 稽 Ji1: surname Ji稽 jī: 稽 ji1: (bound form) to examine; to check (against records); (literary) to delay; to linger; (literary) to dispute; to argue稽 qǐ: 稽 qi3: to bow to the ground
- to follow; to comply
- alley; trail
- to go for a hike (esp. in the hills or mountains)