壁

wall / rampart

Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu

earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

king / monarch / to enlist / to repel / to avoid

law / variant of 闢|辟[pi4]

to open (a door) / to open up (for development) / to dispel / to refute / to repudiate

half of the country (esp. when half the country has fallen into enemy hands) / vast swathe of territory

see 一壁[yi1 bi4]

Epicurus (341-270 BC), ancient Greek philosopher

side wall

to depend on others

see 半壁江山[ban4 bi4 jiang1 shan1]

facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication

facing a wall, an imaginary construction (idiom); baseless fabrication

Houbi, a district in Tainan 台南|台南[Tai2 nan2], Taiwan

lit. to pierce the wall to steal a light (idiom) / fig. to study diligently in the face of hardship

tariff wall

integument (biology)

one side / at the same time