卷 juàn scroll / book / volume / chapter / examination paper / classifier for books, paintings: volume, scroll syn 画轴 畫軸 huà zhóu character scroll / scroll painting syn 幛 zhàng hanging scroll syn 挂轴 掛軸 guà zhóu hanging scroll (calligraphy or painting) 祭 jì to offer a sacrifice to (gods or ancestors) / (in classical novels) to recite an incantation to activate a magic weapon / to wield (sth magic) / (bound form) ceremony / (Tw) (bound form) (celebratory) festival syn 喜蛋 xǐ dàn red-painted eggs, traditional celebratory gift on third day after birth of new baby 滚动 滾動 gǔn dòng to roll / (to do sth) in a loop / to scroll (computing) / to progressively expand (economics) / to rumble (of thunder) syn 卷轴 卷軸 juàn zhóu scroll (book or painting) 横幅 橫幅 héng fú horizontal scroll / banner / streamer syn 滚轮 滾輪 gǔn lún roller / rotating dial / (computer mouse) scroll wheel / (road roller) drum syn 画卷 畫卷 huà juǎn picture scroll 条幅 條幅 tiáo fú wall scroll (for painting or calligraphy) / banner 翻动 翻動 fān dòng to flip over / to turn (a page) / to scroll (an electronic document) / to stir (food in a pot etc) / to move things about / to rummage syn 横批 橫批 héng pī horizontal scroll (for inscription) 书卷 書卷 shū juàn volume / scroll 立轴 立軸 lì zhóu vertical scroll (painting or calligraphy) / vertical shaft (of a machine) 上款 shàng kuǎn addressee / name of recipient on painting or scroll 刷 shuā a brush / to paint / to daub / to brush / to scrub / (fig.) to remove / to eliminate (from a contest) / to fire (from a job) / (onom.) swish / rustle / to swipe (a card) / to scroll on (a phone) / (gaming) to grind / to farm (for experience points, equipment, levels etc) syn 蜷 quán to curl up (like a scroll) / to huddle / Melania libertina / wriggle (as a worm) syn 潢 huáng dye paper / lake / pond / mount scroll 韦编三绝 韋編三絕 wéi biān sān jué lit. the leather binding (of the bamboo scroll) has broken three times / fig. to study diligently 唐卡 táng kǎ thangka (Tibetan Buddhist scroll painting) 挽幛 wǎn zhàng large elegiac scroll 弮 juàn variant of 卷[juan4], curled up scroll 图轴 圖軸 tú zhóu scroll painting 直幅 zhí fú vertical scroll / (advertising) vertical banner 图穷匕见 圖窮匕見 tú qióng bǐ xiàn lit. the assassin's dagger, concealed in a map scroll, is suddenly revealed when the map is unrolled (referring to the attempted assassination of Ying Zheng 嬴政[Ying2 Zheng4] by Jing Ke 荊軻|荆轲[Jing1 Ke1] in 227 BC) (idiom) / fig. malicious intent suddenly becomes apparent syn 手卷 shǒu juàn hand scroll 画卷 畫卷 huà juàn picture scroll 垂头丧气 垂頭喪氣 chuí tóu sàng qì hanging one's head dispiritedly (idiom) / dejected / crestfallen syn 吊灯 吊燈 diào dēng hanging lamp 吊牌 弔牌 diào pái hangtag / swing tag / hanging sign 扣人心弦 kòu rén xīn xián to excite / to thrill / exciting / thrilling / cliff-hanging syn 铁马 鐵馬 tiě mǎ armored horse / cavalry / metal chimes hanging from eaves / steel barricade / (Tw) bike 吊死 diào sǐ death by hanging / to hang oneself syn 壁挂 壁掛 bì guà wall hanging 悬而未决 懸而未決 xuán ér wèi jué pending a decision / hanging in the balance 绞刑 絞刑 jiǎo xíng to execute by hanging 帘幕 lián mù hanging screen / curtain over shop door (for privacy and serving as advertisement) syn 提 tí to carry (hanging down from the hand) / to lift / to put forward / to mention / to raise (an issue) / upwards character stroke / lifting brush stroke (in painting) / scoop for measuring liquid syn 绞死 絞死 jiǎo sǐ to hang (i.e. execute by hanging) / to strangle 吊钩 吊鉤 diào gōu suspended hook / hanging hook / hanger 吊篮 吊籃 diào lán hanging basket (for flowers) / gondola (of cable car) 绞刑架 絞刑架 jiǎo xíng jià gibbet / hanging post 悬河 懸河 xuán hé "hanging" river (an embanked one whose riverbed is higher than the surrounding floodplain) / (literary) waterfall / cataract / (fig.) torrent of words 吊杆 diào gān a boom (i.e. transverse beam for hanging objects) 绞索 絞索 jiǎo suǒ a noose for hanging criminals 不绝如缕 不絕如縷 bù jué rú lǚ hanging by a thread / very precarious / almost extinct / (of sound) linger on faintly syn 缢死 縊死 yì sǐ to execute by hanging / to hang oneself 壁毯 bì tǎn tapestry (used as a wall hanging) 垂髫 chuí tiáo hair hanging down (child's hairstyle) / (fig.) young child / early childhood syn 帘 簾 lián hanging screen or curtain syn 冕 miǎn crown in the form of a horizontal board with hanging decorations / imperial crown syn 撩 liāo to lift up (sth hanging down) / to raise (hem of skirt) / to pull up (sleeve) / to sprinkle (water with cupped hands) syn 揄 yú to draw out / to let hanging 缢 縊 yì (literary) to die by hanging or strangulation 髫 tiáo (literary) hair hanging down in front (children's hairstyle) syn 跂 qì to stand on tiptoe / to sit with feet hanging 鬑 lián hanging temple hair 釭 gāng hanging bowl for lamp or fish 簨 sǔn cross-beam for hanging bells 解民倒悬 解民倒懸 jiě mín dào xuán lit. to rescue the people from hanging upside down (idiom, from Mencius) / to save the people from dire straits 风中之烛 風中之燭 fēng zhōng zhī zhú lit. candle in the wind (idiom) / fig. (of sb's life) feeble / hanging on a thread syn 屏条 屏條 píng tiáo set of (usually four) hanging scrolls syn 瑱 tiàn (literary) jade pendants attached to an official hat and hanging beside each ear, symbolizing refusal to listen to malicious talk / (literary) to fill up 吊死鬼 diào sǐ guǐ ghost of a person who died by hanging / hanged person / (coll.) inchworm / hangman (word game) 前途未卜 qián tú wèi bǔ hanging in the balance / the future is hard to forecast / ¿Qué serà? / who knows what the future holds? 劈挂拳 劈掛拳 pī guà quán Piguaquan "Chop-Hanging Fist" (Chinese Martial Art) 投缳 投繯 tóu huán to hang oneself / to commit suicide by hanging 缳首 繯首 huán shǒu death by hanging 短尾鹦鹉 短尾鸚鵡 duǎn wěi yīng wǔ (bird species of China) vernal hanging parrot (Loriculus vernalis) 空中花园 空中花園 kōng zhōng huā yuán hanging gardens (Babylon etc) / rooftop garden 悬滴结晶 懸滴結晶 xuán dī jié jīng hanging drop crystallization 可轻易完成的目标 可輕易完成的目標 low-hanging fruit 轻而易举的工作 輕而易舉的工作 low-hanging fruit 风中烛，瓦上霜 風中燭，瓦上霜 fēng zhōng zhú , wǎ shàng shuāng lit. like a candle in the wind, or frost on the roof (idiom) / fig. (of sb's life) feeble / hanging on a thread 绞杀 絞殺 jiǎo shā to kill by strangling, hanging or garrotting / (fig.) to snuff out 挂饰 掛飾 guà shì hanging decoration 滴里耷拉 dī li - dā lā hanging down loosely / dangling in disorder 