鳴

to cry (of birds, animals and insects) / to make a sound / to voice (one's gratitude, grievance etc)

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

variant of 屌[diao3] / penis

bird / CL:隻|只[zhi1],群[qun2] / "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196) / (dialect) to pay attention to / (intensifier) damned / goddamn

thunder rolls

to think highly of oneself

boom (sound of explosion) / rumble

buzzer

tinnitus

birdsong / warbling

song of cicadas / chirping of insects

chiming clock

past one's prime / in one's declining years

extravagant lifestyle

crowing like a cock and stealing like a dog (idiom) / bag of tricks / useful talents

idiophone

sound of an explosion

crack / exploding sound

to contend

female chicken crows at daybreak (idiom); a woman usurps authority / women meddle in politics / The female wears the trousers.

in perfect harmony / in sync / lit. qin and se sing in harmony

a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC

a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC, but adopted for Mao's campaign of 1956

to tell fox ghost stories around a bonfire and incite rebellion / an uprising is afoot (idiom)