- to stand tall; to tower aloft
- material; timber; ability; aptitude; a capable individual; coffin (old)
- native; aborigine; clay figure
- to call it...; known as...
- bald (lacking hair or feathers); barren; bare; denuded; blunt (lacking a point); (of a piece of writing) unsatisfactory; lacking something
- west side; west
- to borrow sth for another use; to borrow an idea for one's own use
- to build (housing); to construct; to make
- 省 xǐng: 省 xing3: (bound form) to scrutinize; (bound form) to reflect (on one's conduct); (bound form) to come to realize; (bound form) to pay a visit (to one's parents or elders)省 shěng: 省 sheng3: to save; to economize; to be frugal; to omit; to delete; to leave out; province; provincial capital; a ministry (of the Japanese government)
- strong; firm
- craftsman
- 削 xiāo: 削 xiao1: to peel with a knife; to pare; to cut (a ball at tennis etc)削 xuē: 削 xue1: to pare; to reduce; to remove; Taiwan pr. [xue4]
- vegetation; plants
- apes and monkeys
- barrier
- lit. secure as a city protected by a wall of metal and a moat of boiling water (idiom); fig. well fortified; invulnerable to attack
- (in former times) to bind one's hair on coming of age
- several hundred
- white; fig. reactionary; anti-communist
- smoke from kitchen chimneys
- (bound form) to increase; to augment; to add to
- broadsword; large knife; machete
- summit; crest
- in vain; to no avail
- (literary) body (of a human, esp. the torso); (bound form) to bow; (literary) oneself; personally
- precipice; overhanging cliff
- to compare
- thick and thin; coarse and fine; thickness (caliber); coarseness; quality of work
- crystal
- bird
- to eat one's fill; to be full
- termination; to finish; to end; to conclude; to close
- settled; accomplished; ready; Taiwan pr. [ting2 dang4]
- to bear; to carry on one's back; to shoulder
- cattle and sheep; livestock
- to slaughter; to butcher; to kill (animals etc); (coll.) to fleece; to rip off; to overcharge; (bound form) to govern; to rule; (bound form) (a title for certain government officials in ancient China)