li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮｜镇 and neighborhood 鄰｜邻 levels

to divide; to separate / to distribute; to allocate / to distinguish (good and bad) / (bound form) branch of (an organization); sub- (as in 分局) / fraction / one tenth (of certain units) / unit of length equivalent to 0.33 cm / minute (unit of time) / minute (angular measurement unit) / a point (in sports or games) / 0.01 yuan (unit of money)

difficult / challenging / straitened circumstances / difficult situation

uncooked rice / meter (unit of length) / (slang) Chinese yuan

long / (bound form) length / (bound form) strong point; forte / (bound form) to be good at / (literary) surplus; spare (Taiwan pr. [zhang4])

time / length of time / moment / period

to sway / to waver / to rock / to rattle / to destabilize / to pose a challenge to

to draw (e.g. a bow) / to pull / to stretch sth / to extend / to lengthen / to involve or implicate in / to attract / to lead / to guide / to leave / to provide evidence or justification for / old unit of distance equal to 10 丈, one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters

to challenge; to take on a challenge; a challenge

paragraph / section / segment / stage (of a process) / classifier for stories, periods of time, lengths of thread etc

a unit of length / inch / thumb

to lengthen and shorten / flexible / adjustable / retractable / extensible / telescoping (collapsible)

length

(slang) to take on / to challenge / to go head to head / showdown / comparison

difficult / hard / challenging

general / high-ranking military officer / to check or checkmate / fig. to embarrass / to challenge / to put sb on the spot

challenger

dash / Chinese dash ── (punct., double the length of the western dash)

meter (unit of length) (loanword) (old)

(archaic) agate / (bound form) standard weight used with a balance scale / number / (computing) code / (clothing) size / yard (unit of length) / (coll.) kilometers per hour (informal misuse of "yard" to mean kph in speed references) / (coll.) to pile up; to stack / classifier for matters, items, situations etc (esp. when indicating whether they are the same or different, as in 不是一碼事｜不是一码事 "not the same thing") / (Tw, HK) (finance) unit of 25 basis points (i.e. a 0.25% change in interest rate)

focal length / focal distance

length / accident; mishap / right and wrong; good and bad; merits and demerits

surname Leng

the whole front (in a war) / the whole length (of a road or railway line)

(of a task, mission or responsibility) extremely difficult; challenging; demanding

overall length / span

to be neither too familiar nor too distant / to keep sb at arm's length

measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m) / to measure / husband / polite appellation for an older male

(idiom) to flaunt one's seniority; to rely on one's age or length of experience to control or belittle others

(idiom) to press on in the face of challenges

body length

to signal the musicians (in Chinese opera, by prolonging a spoken word before attacking a song) / (coll.) to challenge

full-length mirror

li (Chinese unit of length equal to ⅓ millimeter)

li (Chinese unit of length equal to 500 meters)

to meet a challenge

to challenge the law (idiom) / to knowingly violate the law

lit. to jump into scalding water and plunge into raging fire (idiom) / fig. to brave any danger / to go to any lengths (for a noble cause)

foot (unit of length equal to 0.3048 m)

to mop the floor / (of a gown etc) to trail on the ground / full-length

wavelength

mile (unit of length equal to 1.609 km)

to cut off (a length) / to stop / to intercept / section / chunk / length

the three core challenges of rural development in mainland China (agriculture 農業｜农业, rural areas 農村｜农村 and farmers 農民｜农民), first identified as a policy focus in the 1990s

length of service (in years); years of employment

to take up a challenge / to face an attack and meet it

Danleng County in Meishan 眉山市, Sichuan

(of a text) very lengthy (idiom)

half-length photo or portrait / bust

length (of a piece of writing) / space occupied on a printed page

to extend as long as / to lengthen out to

meter stick; metric ruler one meter in length

lit. to take knives in both sides (idiom) / fig. to go to any lengths for a friend; to sacrifice oneself out of loyalty

long skirt; full-length skirt

Lengshuijiang, a county-level city in Loudi City 婁底市｜娄底市, Hunan

to make do in difficult circumstances by being resourceful / (of circumstances) difficult / challenging / (of a budget) tight / (of a man-made thing) makeshift / rough and ready

(saying) as one climbs higher on the path of righteousness, one faces ever greater challenges from evil; no sooner does one overcome one obstacle than another arises

optical wavelength

lit. warp and weft in weaving; vertically and horizontal / length and breadth / criss-crossed / able to move unhindered / abbr. for 合縱連橫｜合纵连横, School of Diplomacy during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)

to march straight in unchallenged (military) (idiom) / (fig.) to push deep into the heart of sth / to flood in

qualities that delight children (e.g. bold colors in a picture, anthropomorphized characters in a TV show, the physical challenge of playground equipment)

(measurement) (after a length) square (as in "10 feet square")

unit of length

chain / cable (unit of length: 100 fathoms, about 185 m) / chain (unit of length: 66 feet, about 20 m) / to chain / to enchain

level with one's knees / knee-length (skirt etc) / knee-deep (mud etc)

Lengshuitan, a district of Yongzhou City 永州市, Hunan

wavelength division multiplexing / WDM

to be in a position to (take on a challenge etc)

Hexi Corridor (or Gansu Corridor), a string of oases running the length of Gansu, forming part of the Northern Silk Road

(geometry) side length

to lengthen

play in several acts / full-length drama

educational system / length of schooling

to challenge to battle

to challenge an opponent to a fight

to arrange / to spread out / to narrate in detail / to describe at great length / to elaborate

foot (unit of length equal to 0.3048 m) / old form of modern 英尺

lit. warp string in weaving / fig. vertical or north-south lines / to pass through / to cross lengthwise / to pierce (esp. north-south or top-to-bottom)

(Tw) meter (unit of length)

to bicker at length over a trivial matter (idiom)

length of a book

lit. to go up to heaven or down to Hades (idiom) / fig. to go to great lengths / to search heaven and earth

unit of length used in ancient times, equal to 7 or 8 Chinese feet 尺

8 in. length unit of Zhou dynasty

lifetime / length of life

arc length (the length of a curve segment)

written war challenge

to go through challenging experiences / to become seasoned (in one's profession etc)

(of a warlord etc) to assemble one's personal army, thereby presenting a challenge to the central government

to challenge an established martial arts school to a fight (to prove one's skills or gain reputation) / (fig.) to prove oneself by competing against those already established in a particular field

length of military service

feature-length film

extremely difficult / hard and dangerous / challenging

(a length of) elastic

Space Shuttle Challenger

Danleng County in Meishan 眉山市, Sichuan

tough battle; difficult task; big challenge

height (of person) / length of clothing from shoulders to bottom (tailor or dressmaker's measure)

(idiom) not on the same wavelength; unable to have a congenial conversation; to not see eye to eye

(idiom) to take one's time making a decision; to consider at length