- name in religion (of Buddhist or Daoist within monastery)
- 鱼 Yú: 鱼 Yu2: surname Yu鱼 yú: 鱼 yu2: fish (CL:條|条[tiao2],尾[wei3]); used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鮑魚|鲍鱼[bao4 yu2], alligators and crocodiles 鱷魚|鳄鱼[e4 yu2] and octopi 章魚|章鱼[zhang1 yu2])
- palm
- (of a turn of events) not too encouraging; far from good; anything but reassuring
- 待 dài: 待 dai4: to wait; to treat; to deal with; to need; going to (do sth); about to; intending to待 dāi: 待 dai1: to stay; to remain
- to retreat; to withdraw; to reject; to return (sth); to decline
- wrist; trickery; finesse; ability; skill
- tight; strict; close at hand; near; urgent; tense; hard up; short of money; to tighten
- to turn a hand over; to put one's hand behind one's back; fig. easily done
- firmly; safely
- hoop; to bind with hoops
- (it) hurts; sore; to love dearly
- hastily
- to resist; to withstand
- to know; to be aware
- entire; whole (fish, road etc)
- already; to be already so; to have long been the case
- powerless; lacking strength
- to the bone; to the marrow; fig. to a very large degree
- across one's whole face
- to swell; to distend; to expand; swollen; bloated
- very red; red through and through; to blush (deep red)
- to suffer losses; to come to grief; to lose out; to get the worst of it; to be at a disadvantage; unfortunately
- to make friends with
- rashly; hastily; without careful consideration
- to set about (a task); to raise a hand to hit sb; to touch; to handle (typically used in cautioning sb *not* to touch sth)
- contrary; in reverse; inside out or upside down; to reverse; to return; to oppose; opposite; against; anti-; to rebel; to use analogy; instead; abbr. for 反切[fan3 qie4] phonetic system
- rivers and lakes; all corners of the country; remote areas to which hermits retreat; section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law; the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2]); (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc; demimonde; (in modern times) triads; secret gangster societies; underworld
- this side; here
- to shed; to take off; to escape; to get away from
- boldly; ostentatiously; poised; self-assured; Taiwan pr. [da4 mo2 da4 yang4]
- to be between two parties (as in mediation); to be in the middle; to be in between; (page layout) to be centered
- obviously; plainly; undoubtedly; definitely
- to impersonate; to act the part of sb; to disguise oneself as sb else
- a full mouth of (sth tangible); to have the mouth exclusively filled with (a certain language, lies, promises etc); (to agree etc) unreservedly
- peasant; farmer
- distressed; embarrassed