- to feign; to pretend
- martial art; military skill
- courtyard; garden; yard; patio; CL:個|个[ge4]; (old) servant
- to hinder; to block; to obstruct
- to overtake; to catch up with; to hurry; to rush; to try to catch (the bus etc); to drive (cattle etc) forward; to drive (sb) away; to avail oneself of (an opportunity); until; by (a certain time)
- fast; rapid; quick; velocity
- 洗 xǐ: 洗 xi3: to wash; to bathe; to develop (photographs); to shuffle (cards etc); to erase (a recording)洗 xiǎn: 洗 xian3: used in 洗馬|洗马[xian3 ma3]
- to shave the whole head clean; crushing defeat
- 颏 kē: 颏 ke1: chin颏 ké: 颏 ke2: (used in bird names) throat
- 剃 tì: 剃 ti4: to shave剃 tì: 剃 ti4: shave; to weed
- beard; mustache or whiskers; facial hair; CL:撮[zuo3],根[gen1]; (coll.) bandit
- to play tricks on; to make fun of; to tease
- unpeaceful; unstable; uneasy; disturbed; restless; worried
- to impersonate; to act the part of sb; to disguise oneself as sb else
- straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns
- sharp-sighted and deft
- flat; planar
- two sides; both sides
- strong; powerful; robust
- (usually used in the negative) major issue; serious problem; big deal
- (bound form) hedgehog
- first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; (used for an unspecified person or thing); first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc); letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; armor plating; shell or carapace; (of the fingers or toes) nail; bladed leather or metal armor (old); ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old); civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old); ancient Chinese compass point: 75°
- to drape over one's shoulders; to open; to unroll; to split open; to spread out
- to carry out a vendetta against sb
- lit. the cicada sheds its carapace (idiom); fig. to vanish leaving an empty shell; a crafty escape plan
- successfully accomplished (project or goal); to be highly successful
- to be startled; to be shocked; to be amazed
- to lose; to miss; to fail
- to separate; to partition; to stand or lie between; at a distance from; after or at an interval of
- hidden; secret; latent; to hide; to conceal; to submerge; to dive
- to move; to transport; to use; to apply; fortune; luck; fate
- itself; oneself; one's own
- to speculate; to ponder
- to be trapped; to be imprisoned
- to redouble a siege
- to disobey; to defy; to deliberately go against (a rule, a convention, sb's wishes etc)
- to torment; to torture
- undergarment; underwear; CL:件[jian4]