箭

arrow / CL:支[zhi1]

"bamboo" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 118)

front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293年) / former / formerly

bamboo / CL:棵[ke1],支[zhi1],根[gen1] / Kangxi radical 118

arrow banner of command (archaic used as symbol of military authority) / fig. instructions from one's superiors

lit. one arrow, two golden eagles (idiom) / to kill two birds with one stone

up-pointing arrow

up arrow key (on keyboard)

down-pointing arrow

down arrow key (on keyboard)

lit. to be struck by an arrow and fall from one's horse / to suffer a serious setback (idiom)

time flies like an arrow (idiom); How time flies!

booster rocket

lit. to have one's heart pierced by thousands of arrows (idiom) / fig. overcome with sorrow / to lambaste / to rip sb to shreds

a wrong suffered (idiom) / old grievance / previous defeat