插

to insert / stick in / pierce / to take part in / to interfere / to interpose

old variant of 插[cha1]

"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

to separate the grain from the husk

plug

(medicine) to intubate / intubation / (endotracheal) tube

to cut in line / to jump a queue / to live on a rural community (during the Cultural Revolution)

flower arranging / ikebana

bolt (for locking a window, cabinet etc) / (electrical) plug

to interrupt (sb speaking) / interruption / digression

to transplant rice seedlings

lit. even given wings, you couldn't fly (idiom); fig. impossible to escape

(idiom) (of a good outcome) unanticipated / serendipitous / fortuitous

mortise lock

crowded tightly / jam-packed

lit. you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree / fig. things do not always turn out as one would expect / well-laid plans may fail, and success may come where you least expect it

endotracheal intubation (medicine)