Chinese characters

out-of-the-way, remote; unorthodox; (bound form) remote; out of the way; off-center; ecce…

to bisect, to dissect, to slice; to cut open; to analyze; Taiwan pr. [pou3]

onomatopoetic, a crash or bang; (onom.) bang; door banging shut

dam, dike, embankment; weir

beautiful, handsome, fair; used in 婕妤[jie2 yu2]

relatives by marriage; marriage connections; variant of 姻[yin1]

mountain peak; cave, cavern; cave

lazy, idle, indolent; careless; lazy

to mix, to blend, to harmonize; accord; to make contact; to agree; to consult with; exten…

to sparkle, to shine, to glitter; bright; luminous

white; bright, brilliant; clear; bright

celery; Chinese celery

to transplant, to grow; dill, Anethum graveolens; used in 蒔蘿|莳萝[shi2 luo2]; (literary) to…

to hibernate

to censure, to blame; to exile, to banish; to relegate a high official to a minor post in…

ankle

to surpass, to overtake, to excel; (bound form) (of a book, author etc) lost (to the ages…

high door, high gate; high, lofty; used in 閌閬|闶阆[kang1 lang2]; (literary) vast; spacious;…

a place in the Henan province; wen xiang, Henan province

path; a foot-path between fields; road leading north and south

to feed, support, provide for; food; old variant of 饌|馔[zhuan4]; delicacies

nightmare, bad dream; to have a nightmare

to lap; to suck; (literary) to gnaw; to eat ravenously; (coll.) to suck

dirt, filth, stains; dirty; disgraceful; dirt; disgrace

to add, to increase; to attach; fence, wall; low wall

village school; teach; (archaic) a school

absent-minded; distracted; indistinct; seemingly; variant of 恍[huang3]; (bound form) in a…

sunrise; to advance, to rise, to go forward

threshold, door frame; banister; balustrade; cage for animal or prisoner; to transport ca…

waterfall, cascade; heavy rain; shower (rain); waterfall

a river in Shanxi province; name of a river

fine jade; fine quality jade

a pile of rocks; candid, open; great; lumpy; rock pile; uneven; fig. sincere; open and ho…

to twist, to turn, to bend; to distort; surname Yu; winding; twisting

silk cloth, satin damask; (light) silk; CL:匹[pi3]

a species of antelope; antelope

an ancient feudal State in Shenxi and Hunan; surname Guo; Guo, a kinship group whose memb…

mosquito, gnat; (mosquito); Simulia lugubris; blackfly

bat; (bound form) bat

well-versed in, fully acquainted with; to be versed in; to know well

to bribe; riches, wealth; (bound form) bribery

to curb, to check, to stop, to suppress; to restrain; to check; to hold back

chief of tribe, chieftain; tribal chief

liquor, spirits, wine; to ferment; to brew

yttrium; yttrium (chemistry)

samarium; samarium (chemistry); to cut with a sickle; large sickle

plutonium; metal plate; plutonium (chemistry) (Tw)

the temporal bone; bones of the temple (on the human head); see 顳顬|颞颥, temple

wooden figure buried with dead; wooden figures buried with the dead

to deride, to jeer at, to ridicule, to scorn; to ridicule; to mock; used in 嘲哳[zhao1 zha1]

to abhor, to detest, to hate; to detest

thumb; big toe

still water

pool, pond; not hardened, semi-soft; half congealed; pond

torch

a kind of necklace; neck-ornament

rash, measles; fever; measles; rash

bamboo container for food; bamboo tazza used in ancient times to hold dry food for sacrif…

empty; to exhaust, to run out, to use up; to use up; to exhaust

helmet; descendant; descendants

the prow of a ship; bow of ship

grapes; used in 葡萄[pu2 tao5]

the stem and calyx of a flower; calyx of a flower; old variant of 萼[e4]

poison, sting; poisonous insect; (literary) (of a bee or spider etc) to sting or bite; (o…

to expound, to explain, to comment on; to explain; to comment; to annotate

webbed feet; web (of feet of ducks, frogs etc)

abstruse, pedantic, unrealistic; literal-minded; pedantic; doctrinaire; longwinded; circu…

rivet; to fasten with a rivet; to rivet; to hammer in a rivet; (coll.) to concentrate one…

indium; indium (chemistry)

tunnel, underground passage; a path to a tomb; tunnel; underground passage

hail, sleet; graupel; snow pellet; soft hail

carp; mud carp (Cirrhina molitorella)

the nautilus; the ray; ray (cartilaginous fish, including skates)

rustic, vulgar, unpolished; mean; old name for the 黎[Li2] ethnic group; rustic; vulgar; u…

to chirp; to hiss; to squeak; (onom.) creaking or groaning; (onom.) chirp; squeak; creak

(phonetic)

steep, precipitous; peak; surname Cen; small hill

granary; to stockpile; government granary

to clutch, to grasp; to choke, to strangle; to grip forcefully; to clutch at; to guard; t…

broad, vast, wide; empty; to neglect; to skip (class or work); to waste (time); vast; loo…

almost, probably; danger, peril; to endanger; (literary) dangerous; perilous; (literary)…

scattered; to scatter; to dissipate; to dissolve

to stir up, to incite; to agitate, to provoke; to fan into a flame; to incite

monkey

a stone roller; plumb, weight; steelyard weight; stone roller; to polish jade with an eme…

to seal, to close, to bind; a letter; (wooden) box; cup; old variant of 緘|缄[jian1]; lette…

a fragrant orchid; Coumarouna odorata

pigweed; Chenopodium album; name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc)

mole cricket; see 螻蛄|蝼蛄[lou2 gu1]; used in 蝲蛄[la4 gu3]; used in 蝲蝲蛄[la4 la4 gu3]

to question; to inform; to inquire

to flee, to run away; to leave a debt unsettled; to flee; to abscond; to owe

to anoint, to perform a rite; Daoist or Buddhist ceremony; to perform sacrifice

to endeavor, to strive; to encourage; to cut; to strain

beautiful, excellent, harmonious; music from the Shun dynasty; surname Shao; (literary) s…

crane, stork; Ciconia species (various); crane; stork

dirty, ragged; slight, insult, disrespect; obscene; disrespectful

to mimic, to imitate; to imitate (variant of 效[xiao4])

in chemistry, -azole; azole (chemistry)

the Goulou mountain in Hunan; mountain peak

honesty, sincerity, zeal; sincerity; honesty

sunlight; surname; sun light; used in personal name

current, rapids; to rush (of water)

fox; (bound form) used in the names of small mammals; variant of 狸[li2]

whetstone; to sharpen; grind; sandstone

to tie, to join; knot, connection; (archaic) to bind up inextricably; (bound form) to for…

luxuriant foliage; green; luxuriant growth

moss; edible berries; (bound form) berry (e.g. strawberry, blackberry, loganberry)

Caryopteris divaricata

a river in Shandong province; He river in Shandong

frog, toad; toad; old variant of 蟆[ma2]

to jeer; joy; to joke; to banter; to tease; to mock; Taiwan pr. [nu:e4]

ornamental hairpin; hairpin

fearful; a black horse with a white mane; black horse with white mane

used with ping for ping pong; (onom.) bang

to warn; warning; to admonish

to diverge, to branch; junction, fork in the road; fork in road; bifurcation; branch in r…

high, lofty; one of the five peaks in Hunan; Mt Song in Henan; (literary) (of mountains)…

intelligent, clever, astute; (literary) to come to one's senses; to awaken; (literary) as…

post; to lean on; to prod, to ridicule; to prop on

awkward, clumsy; dull, stupid; awkward; clumsy; dull; inelegant; (polite) my; Taiwan pr.…