- iron hook
- thorny (problem); intractable
- nickname
- (literary) to kill; to behead; to sever; to separate; to surpass; (bound form) different; (bound form) special; remarkable; (literary) very; extremely
- incidentally; occasional; occasionally; by chance; randomly
- pig iron; foundry iron
- to hit (a target); to strike
- tender; delicate (texture)
- vicious wife
- spring (small stream); mouth of a spring; coin (archaic)
- 阙 Què: 阙 Que4: surname Que阙 quē: 阙 que1: used in place of 缺 (old); mistake阙 què: 阙 que4: Imperial city watchtower (old); fault; deficiency
- center; hub; the central administration
- department; branch; section; division; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to defend; to protect
- careful; thorough; meticulous
- paternal great-aunt (father's father's sister); (respectful form of address for a married woman used by members of her parents' family) married daughter; (brassy self-reference used by a woman in an altercation) I; me; this lady here; (coll.) form of address for an unmarried girl or woman, expressing affection or reproach
- clever; witty; intelligent; deft; adroit
- (animal's) claw
- to flip over; to turn (a page); to scroll (an electronic document); to stir (food in a pot etc); to move things about; to rummage
- hollow of the palm
- 把手 bǎ shou: 把手 ba3 shou5: handle; grip; knob把手 bǎ shǒu: 把手 ba3 shou3: to shake hands
- a handle
- to injure by scratching or clawing
- to gasp for breath; asthma
- (bound form) to compare; (literary) to dispute; compared to; (before an adjective) relatively; comparatively; rather; also pr. [jiao3]
- to glimpse
- deathly pale
- a shiver
- (derog.) illegitimate child; bastard
- my old mother; I, this old woman; my old lady (colloquial); maternal grandmother; midwife
- to hand over; to pass on; to deliver; (bound form) progressively; in the proper order
- pincer attack; attack from two or more sides; converging attack; attack on a flank; fork in chess, with one piece making two attacks
- (idiom) can't help but; involuntarily