carnivore; carnivorous animal
loading; charging; filling
to smell; to smell of; to have a smell
to cause casualties; to result in deaths
settlement; village; community; (bacterial) colony
order; command; directions; instructions
(the) positive; yang (in Chinese divination); the open; visible place
hometown; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains
seductive smile; erotic humor
(navigable) canal; waterway
to yearn for; to long for; to pine for; to love ardently; to be madly in love with
to one's heart's content; following one's heart's desires
sound of a gunshot; report of a gun
to paste; to stick; to affix; to station; to post
to suck up; to absorb; to squeeze (money)
pale; pallid; bluish-white
how things should be; the way something ought to be; ideal state; ideal form
tear; tears; lachrymal secretion; sympathy
dropping; losing; missing item; something one forgot to write down; cleaning; removing; trap
immediately; instantly; with nary a pause; without a moment's delay
tomfoolery; monkey business
Chinese matrimony vine (Lycium chinense); Chinese wolfberry; goji
(lit.) blood flows; to have the blood of ... running in one's veins (artist, warrior, etc.); to be born with particular skills, characteristics, etc.; to have something "in one's blood"
dying from blood loss; bleeding to death; hemorrhaging to death
profound; deep; deep (of a cave, etc.); innermost; interior
companions; friends; comrades; mates; partners
to come from; to have roots in
mere shadow of one's former self; having no trace left (of former glories, talent, looks, etc.); unrecognizable (as the person one used to be); unrecognisable
to put (wood, coal, paper, etc.) into the fire; to throw on the fire; to add to the fire; to burn
to slip through; to slip past; to evade
tip of an ear (of wheat, etc.); tip (of a brush, spear, etc.); point; spearhead
zhen (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: thunder, east)
Buddha; Shakyamuni; Buddhist image; figure of Buddha; the dead; dead person
to level (earth); to cut through (a mountain); to split (the opposition); to break (strike)
lattice; counter for large bundles (e.g. 10 sheafs of rice, 200 sheets of calligraphy paper, 20 whistling arrows, 100 fish); handbreadth (unit for measuring the length of arrows); fascicle
having wounds all over one's body; being wounded all over; receiving a drubbing; being subjected to a barrage of criticism