| | way of handling sth / method for making / work method / recipe / practice / CL: 個｜个 | HSK 2 |
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| | to quarrel / to make a noise / noisy / to disturb by making a noise | HSK 3 |
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| | quiet; making little or no noise / surreptitious; stealthy / anxious; worried / Taiwan pr. [qiao3qiao3] | HSK 5 |
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| | strategic decision / decision-making / policy decision / to determine policy | HSK 6 |
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| | rice bowl / fig. livelihood / job / way of making a living | HSK 7-9 |
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| | making up a group, forming a troupe (idiom); in large numbers / as a large crowd | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. fight minutes, snatch seconds (idiom); a race against time / making every second count | HSK 7-9 |
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| | material for making clothes / CL: 塊｜块 | |
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| | board for making noodles or kneading bread dough | |
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| | sentence-making | |
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| | (polite) birthday making the beginning of new decade of life for an older person, especially over 50 years old (e.g. 60th or 70th birthday) | |
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| | components / individual parts making up a compound | |
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| | unkind / harsh / cutting / mean / acrimony / to embezzle by making illegal deductions | |
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| | making things awkward / to cause difficulties / to exert influence / to attract | |
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| | furan (furfuran, used in making nylon) (loanword) | |
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| | to learn to walk / (fig.) to learn sth, making unsteady progress / to get started on the learning curve | |
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| | to play a major role in a creative endeavor (e.g. making a movie) / person who plays a key creative role (e.g. movie director) | |
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| | (idiom) to take one's time making a decision; to consider at length | |
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| | lit. to come back to one's hometown in silken robes (idiom) / fig. to return home after making good / Taiwan pr. [yi4 jin3 huan2 xiang1] | |
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| | not making progress | |
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| | peace and happiness / feasting / making merry | |
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| | pincer attack / attack from two or more sides / converging attack / attack on a flank / fork in chess, with one piece making two attacks | |
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| | making a deer out to be a horse (idiom); deliberate misrepresentation | |
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| | making an all-out effort (idiom); to try one's heart out / to do one's utmost | |
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| | making one happy / gratifying / heartening | |
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| | not recognizing one's family (idiom); self-centered and not making any allowances for the needs of one's relatives | |
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| | tung oil, from the Japanese wood-oil tree Aleurites cordata, used in making lacquer | |
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| | raw materials for making soup / packaged soup mix | |
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| | half willing and half unwilling (idiom); to yield after making a show of resistance | |
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| | lit. trifling destroys the will (idiom); infatuation with fine details prevents one making progress / excessive attention to trivia saps the will | |
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| | piece of dough cut to the right size (for making jiaozi etc) | |
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| | okara (i.e. soy pulp, a by-product of making soymilk or tofu) | |
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| | to make insinuations / to take an indirect approach (in making inquiries) (idiom) | |
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| | lit. there are principles behind making money (idiom); fig. to have a knack for good business / knowing how to accumulate wealth / good at feathering one's own nest | |
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| | jade used for making goblets | |
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| | to spur sb into action by making negative remarks | |
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| | parent material (e.g. the eroded rock making up sediment) | |
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| | attack from two sides / pincer movement / converging attack / attack on a flank / fork in chess, with one piece making two attacks | |
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| | (idiom) it's the most capable people who do the most work (intended as consolation for the overworked, or flattery when making a request etc) | |
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| | lit. paper has become expensive in Luoyang (because everyone is making a copy of a popular story) (idiom) / fig. (of a product) to sell like hotcakes | |
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| | large metal plate for making bean curd / metal pot for warming wine | |
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| | seeking only ease and comfort (idiom); making no attempt to improve oneself / taking things easily without attending to responsibilities | |
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| | lit. try to straighten out silk threads only to tangle them further (idiom) / fig. to try to help but end up making things worse | |
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| | peptide chain (chain of amino acids making up protein) | |
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| | to seek out discount vouchers, cashback offers etc and use them in making purchases | |
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| | (literary) making no progress | |
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| | (literary) making no progress | |
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| | bread making machine; bread maker | |
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| | lit. not aiming to achieve the best possible result, but rather trying to avoid making mistakes (idiom) / fig. to take a risk-averse approach | |
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| | all-purpose flour / flour for making dumplings and noodles | |
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| | "mercenary expert", a person who is supposedly an independent expert, but receives payment for making comments favorable to a particular entity | |
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| | to facilitate / thus making easier | |
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| | a second job / supplementary way of making a living | |
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| | points gained by making a good impression / kudos / brownie points | |
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| | to proceed by trial and error; to learn by making mistakes | |
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| | to equalize / leveling / making uniform | |
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| | lit. making little use of great talent / to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut | |
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| | Book of History / a compendium of documents in various styles, making up the oldest extant texts of Chinese history, from legendary times down to the times of Confucius | |
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| | Shengsi Islands, making up Shengsi county in Zhoushan 舟山, Zhejiang | |
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| | to twist words and force logic (idiom) / sophistry / loud rhetoric making up for fallacious argument / shoving false arguments down people's throats | |
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| | to mix in some sand (e.g. when making concrete) / (fig.) to place outsiders into a monolithic group (to infiltrate or disrupt it etc) | |
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| | making decisions without implementing them | |
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| | not to delay making a decision when a decision is needed | |
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| | the eye incites, the heart invites (idiom); flirtatious / making eyes at sb | |
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| | sial rock (containing silicon and aluminium, so comparatively light, making continental plates) | |
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| | the empty city stratagem (in which Zhuge Liang presents himself as unperturbed while making it evident that his city is undefended, hoping his adversary will suspect an ambush); double bluff | |
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| | lit. to clasp the Buddha's feet when danger arises (idiom); fig. to profess devotion only when in trouble / doing things at the last minute / making a hasty last-minute effort | |
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| | mold making | |
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| | to dissect a sparrow / (fig.) to examine a typical case as the basis for making a generalization | |
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| | okara (i.e. soy pulp, a by-product of making soymilk or tofu) | |
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| | a novice making a fool of himself / to make oneself ridiculous before experts | |
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| | If one can change after making a mistake, there is nothing better (idiom) | |
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| | (courteous expression) you have made a long and exhausting journey / you will be making a long trip (when asking a favor that involves going to a faraway place) | |
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| | mafic rock (containing magnesium and iron, so comparatively heavy, making oceanic plates) | |
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| | to converse with sb by shouting from some distance away / (fig.) to say sth intended for the ears of sb who is not in one's presence (often, by making a public statement or by posting online) | |
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