栉

comb / to comb / to weed out / to eliminate / Taiwan pr. [jie2]

(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden

see 節骨眼|节骨眼[jie1 gu5 yan3]

festival / holiday / node / joint / section / segment / part / to economize / to save / to abridge / moral integrity / classifier for segments, e.g. lessons, train wagons, biblical verses / CL:個|个[ge4]

joint; node / (bound form) section; segment / solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar) / seasonal festival / (bound form) to economize; to save / (bound form) moral integrity; chastity / classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc / knot (nautical miles per hour)

row upon row

to work unceasingly regardless of the weather (idiom)

comb jellies (Ctenophora)

Farrer's scallop (Chlamys farreri), aka Chinese scallop

lit. to comb one's hair in the wind and wash it in the rain (idiom) / fig. to work in the open regardless of the weather

lined up close (like teeth of a comb)