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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
- (slang) to kabedon; to corner (sb in whom one has a romantic interest) against a wall (loanword from Japanese 壁ドン "kabedon")
- dilapidated wall
- to break through a wall
- (fig.) to break through
- (biotechnology) to disrupt cell walls
- cell disruption
- to face the wall
- to sit facing the wall in meditation (Buddhism)
- (fig.) to devote oneself to study, work etc
- Red Cliffs, historic battlefield in Huangzhou District 黃州區|黄州区[Huang2 zhou1 Qu1], Huanggang 黃岡市|黄冈市[Huang2 gang1 Shi4], Hubei, site of the Battle of Red Cliffs in 208 AD
- see 赤壁市[Chi4 bi4 Shi4]
- (traditional Chinese architecture) spirit wall – a screen wall placed inside or outside a main gate, shielding the courtyard from view
- Little Red Cliff, nickname of Bitan 碧潭[Bi4 tan2], Xindian, Taibei county, Taiwan
Trad. 鶴壁市
- Hebi, prefecture-level city in Henan Province 河南省[He2 nan2 Sheng3]
Trad. 呼圖壁
- Hutubi county in Changji Hui autonomous prefecture 昌吉回族自治州[Chang1 ji2 Hui2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang
- Chibi, a county-level city in Xianning City 咸寧市|咸宁市[Xian2 ning2 Shi4], Hubei
- half of the country (esp. when half the country has fallen into enemy hands)
- vast swathe of territory
Trad. 伊壁鳩魯
- Epicurus (341-270 BC), ancient Greek philosopher
- lit. with only four bare walls for a home (idiom)
- fig. very poor
- wretched
Trad. 壁壘一新
- to have one's defenses in good order (idiom)
Trad. 壁壘森嚴
- closely guarded
- strongly fortified
- sharply divided
- (idiom) (of a cliff, mountain etc) steep; lofty; imposing
Trad. 銅牆鐵壁
- copper wall, iron bastion (idiom); impenetrable defense
Trad. 面壁思過
- to face the wall and ponder about one's misdeeds
- to stand in the corner (punishment)
- (fig.) to examine one's conscience
Trad. 堅壁清野
- to fortify defenses and raze the fields (idiom); to leave nothing for the invader
- scorched earth policy
Trad. 殘垣敗壁
- lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom)
- fig. scene of devastation
- ruins
Trad. 殘垣斷壁
- lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom)
- fig. scene of devastation
- ruins
- Mr Wang from next door (term used jocularly to refer to a neighbor who is supposedly sleeping with one's wife)
Trad. 懸崖峭壁
- (idiom) sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces
Trad. 懸崖絕壁
- sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces (idiom)
Trad. 頹垣斷壁
- lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom)
- fig. scene of devastation
- ruins
Trad. 斷垣殘壁
- lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom)
- fig. scene of devastation
- ruins
Trad. 斷壁殘垣
- lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom)
- fig. scene of devastation
- ruins
Trad. 斷壁頹垣
- lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom)
- fig. scene of devastation
- ruins
Trad. 呼圖壁縣
- Hutubi county in Changji Hui autonomous prefecture 昌吉回族自治州[Chang1 ji2 Hui2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang
Trad. 赤壁之戰
- Battle of Redcliff of 208 at Chibi in Huangzhou district 黃州區|黄州区[Huang2 zhou1 qu1] of Huanggang city 黃岡|黄冈[Huang2 gang1], a decisive defeat of Cao Cao 曹操[Cao2 Cao1] at the hands of southern kingdom of Wu
- famous episode in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义[San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4]
Trad. 向壁虛構
- facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
Trad. 向壁虛造
- facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication
Trad. 飛檐走壁
- to leap onto roofs and vault over walls (usually associated with martial arts)
Trad. 鑿壁偷光
- lit. to pierce the wall to steal a light (idiom)
- fig. to study diligently in the face of hardship
Trad. 紅翅旋壁雀
- (bird species of China) wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria)