1 hare

2 rabbit

3 classifier: 只 zhī

1 Year of the Rabbit (e.g. 2011)

1 east and west

1 the West

2 abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xī bān yá]

3 Spanish

1 Xi'an, sub-provincial city and capital of Shaanxi 陝西省|陕西省[Shǎn xī Shěng] in northwest China

2 see also: 西安区 Xī ān qū

1 you don't release the hawk until you've seen the hare (idiom)

2 one doesn't act without some incentive

1 harmonious combination of Chinese and Western elements (idiom)

1 A rabbit doesn't eat the grass by its own burrow (idiom); One shouldn't do anything to harm one's neighbors.

1 lit. if the rabbit dies, the fox grieves (idiom); fig. to have sympathy with a like-minded person in distress

1 lit. to boil the hound once it caught the rabbit (idiom)

2 fig. to get rid of sb once he has served his purpose