| | wall (CL: 面, 堵) / (slang) to block (a website) (usu. in the passive: 被牆｜被墙) | HSK 2 |
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| | road; path (CL: 條｜条, 股) / (bound form) way; reason; principle / (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization / (Daoism) the Way; the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division) | HSK 2 |
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| | city walls / city / town / CL: 座, 道, 個｜个 | HSK 3 |
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| | to block up (a road, pipe etc) / to stop up (a hole) / (fig.) (of a person) choked up with anxiety or stress / wall (literary) / (classifier for walls) | HSK 4 |
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| | the Great Wall | HSK 3 |
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| | wall | HSK 5 |
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| | moss / lichen / moss on damp walls / used erroneously for 蘇｜苏 | |
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| | to be revealed / to come out (of the truth) / chalk (for whitening walls) / (old) wine cup / (neologism c. 2021) healthcare worker or volunteer in full-body PPE (esp. during the COVID-19 pandemic) (from the 2014 Disney version of the Marvel Comics character Baymax, whose Chinese name is 大白) | |
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| | (of a person) short / (of a wall etc) low / (of rank) inferior (to); lower (than) | HSK 4 |
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| | lit. the red apricot tree leans over the garden wall (idiom) / fig. a wife having an illicit lover | |
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| | wall | |
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| | Wall Street, New York / by extension, American big business | |
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| | to make a last-ditch stand before the city wall (idiom); to fight to the last ditch / to put up a desperate struggle | |
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| | lit. Buddha jumps over the wall, name for a Chinese dish that uses many non-vegetarian ingredients | |
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| | copper wall, iron bastion (idiom); impenetrable defense | |
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| | lit. until you reach the Great Wall, you're not a proper person; fig. to get over difficulties before reaching the goal | |
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| | paint / lacquer / CL: 道 / to paint (furniture, walls etc) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to hit a wall / (fig.) to hit a brick wall; to hit a snag; to have the door slammed in one's face | |
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| | lit. pull down the east wall to repair the west (idiom); fig. temporary expedient / Rob Peter to pay Paul | |
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| | Spider-Man, see 蜘蛛俠｜蜘蛛侠 / nickname of French skyscraper climber Alain Robert (1962-) / person who scales the outer walls of a building as a stunt or for building maintenance | |
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| | incorruptible / honest / inexpensive / to investigate (old) / side wall of a traditional Chinese house (old) | |
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| | wall / fence | |
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| | human ladder (formed to help sb climb a wall etc); (fig.) person who sacrifices himself for others' success | |
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| | lit. honing a bull's horn; fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem / to bash one's head against a brick wall / a wild goose chase / a blind alley / to split hairs / same as idiom 鑽牛角尖｜钻牛角尖 | |
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| | the tiles are broken, the walls dilapidated | |
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| | wall / rampart | |
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| | curtain wall (architecture) | |
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| | (Tw) betel nut beauty: a skimpily-dressed, attractive girl who sells betel nut from a glass-walled roadside booth | |
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| | city wall | HSK 7-9 |
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| | wall newspaper | |
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| | lit. secure as a city protected by a wall of metal and a moat of boiling water (idiom) / fig. well fortified; invulnerable to attack | |
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| | wall effect | |
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| | external diameter (including thickness of the wall) | |
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| | (usu. of a structural component of a building) to bear a load / load-bearing (wall, pillar etc) | |
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| | to plaster / to render (a wall) / (fig.) to bring shame on / also pr. [mo4 hui1] | |
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| | lit. to pierce the wall to steal a light (idiom) / fig. to study diligently in the face of hardship | |
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| | Shanhai Pass in Hebei, at the eastern terminus of the Ming dynasty Great Wall | |
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| | brick / tile (floor or wall, not roof) / CL: 塊｜块 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | soldiers at the city walls (idiom); fig. at a critical juncture | |
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| | tapestry (used as a wall hanging) | |
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| | lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins | |
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| | Berlin Wall | |
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| | cell wall | |
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| | lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins | |
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| | foot of a wall | |
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| | Jiayu Pass in Gansu, at the western terminus of the Great Wall | |
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| | to paste materials (such as paper, fabric or silk) onto walls or artworks for decoration or preservation | |
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| | path screened by walls on both sides | |
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| | (Chinese martial arts) the art of agile movement such as leaping, wall-running or gliding through the air (exaggerated in wuxia stories) | |
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| | sections of a city close to the city wall | |
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| | whitewashed wall / to whitewash a wall | |
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| | (military) ladder used for scaling the walls of a fortified place (i.e. for escalading) in ancient times / firefighters' extension ladder / stone steps on a mountain | |
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| | wall clock | |
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| | side wall | |
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| | crenelated parapet wall | |
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| | lit. to lead the water through the wall / to ask for trouble (idiom) | |
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| | lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins | |
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| | lit. to climb over the wall / fig. to breach the Great Firewall of China | |
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| | Wall Street Journal | |
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| | wall newspaper | |
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| | lit. to tear down the east wall to repair the west wall (saying) / fig. to rob Peter to pay Paul | |
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| | the area north of the Great Wall | |
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| | encircling the city (of walls, ring road etc) / around the city | |
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| | peptidoglycan (PG) or murein (polymer of sugars and amino acids forming cell wall) | |
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| | perimeter wall / fence / CL: 道 | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (old) territories north of the Great Wall | |
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| | wall around a market place | |
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| | roof / topmost part / top (of tree, wall etc) / apex | |
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| | to look askance / cross or wall-eyed | |
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| | plastered masonry wall | |
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| | lit. when a wall is about to collapse, everybody gives it a shove (idiom) / fig. everybody hits a man who is down | |
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| | the Great Wall | |
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| | the walls have ears (idiom) | |
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| | Badaling, a particular section of the Great Wall that is a favorite tourist destination | |
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| | wall hanging | |
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| | a narrow street (lined with walls) / to line the street | |
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| | wall scroll (for painting or calligraphy) / banner | |
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| | (slang) to kabedon; to corner (sb in whom one has a romantic interest) against a wall (loanword from Japanese 壁ドン "kabedon") | |
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| | (dialect) wall brick | |
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| | cat burglar / burglar who gains entrance by scaling walls / intruding enemy airman / air marauder | |
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| | Kowloon Walled City | |
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| | to point a brick wall / to grout a tiled surface | |
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| | Wailing Wall, or Western Wall (Jerusalem) | |
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| | city wall | |
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| | (of cliffs etc) stand like a wall / rise steeply | |
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| | facade / external wall | |
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| | Mutianyu, well-preserved section of the Great Wall 70km from Beijing | |
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| | Great Wall Hotel (Beijing Sheraton 喜來登｜喜来登) | |
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| | (old) territories beyond the Great Wall | |
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| | heroine of Qin dynasty 秦朝 folk tale, who searched for her husband, and whose tears broke down a stretch of the Great Wall to reveal his body | |
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| | lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom) / fig. scene of devastation / ruins | |
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| | Berlin Wall | |
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| | partition / to stand between / wall or fence serving as partition | |
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| | to face the wall / to sit facing the wall in meditation (Buddhism) / (fig.) to devote oneself to study, work etc | |
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| | horse's back / (traditional Chinese architecture) roof with a low-slung curved ridgelines and geometric shapes on the upper gable walls at the ends of the roof ridges | |
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| | Juyongguan, frontier fortress on Great Wall north of Beijing, in Changping district 昌平區｜昌平区 | |
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| | Green Wall of China, a massive afforestation program on the eastern margin of the Gobi Desert aimed at stopping the desert's expansion, started in 1978 and planned to be completed by 2050 | |
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| | lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom) / fig. very poor / wretched | |
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| | a room / the wall of a house / a man's name | |
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| | the surface of a wall (esp. an interior wall) | |
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