竄

to flee / to scuttle / to exile or banish / to amend or edit

cave / cavity / hole / acupuncture point / Taiwan pr. [xue4]

rat / mouse / CL:隻|只[zhi1]

(bound form) rat; mouse

to run away / to flee in disarray

to roam all over the place / to go into every nook and corner / to infiltrate / (of criminals, enemies etc) to be on the run / to flee and try to hide

to flee in disorder / to scurry off

to alter / to modify / to change / to tamper

to rise rapidly / to shoot up

to invade and harass

to raid / an intrusion (of the enemy, or bandit groups)

to become suddenly popular / suddenly all the rage

(derog.) (of a prominent figure) to visit (another country) (used when one disapproves of the visit for political reasons)

to flee in disorder and encamp somewhere

to disperse and flee, leaving no trace

to reword / to edit a text

to scamper off / to scurry off like a frightened rat

to flee in disarray / to scatter

(of people or animals) to flee helter-skelter / to scatter / (of floodwater, an idea etc) to spread in all directions

to cover one's head and sneak away like a rat (idiom); to flee ignominiously

criminal at large