1 to fall

2 to collapse

3 to lie horizontally

4 to overthrow

5 to fail

6 to go bankrupt

7 to change (trains or buses)

8 to move around

9 to resell at a profit

1 to have bad luck

2 to be out of luck

1 fingernail

1 first of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shí tiān gān]

2 (used for an unspecified person or thing)

3 first (in a list, as a party to a contract etc)

4 letter "A" or roman "I" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc

5 armor plating

6 shell or carapace

7 (of the fingers or toes) nail

8 bladed leather or metal armor (old)

9 ranking system used in the Imperial examinations (old)

10 civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bǎo jiǎ] system (old)

11 ancient Chinese compass point: 75°

1 to overturn trunks and boxes

2 to make a thorough search (idiom)

1 lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation

2 dire straits

1 lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation

2 dire straits

1 lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation

2 dire straits

1 lit. to strike with a muckrake (idiom), cf Pigsy 豬八戒|猪八戒 in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记; fig. to counterattack

2 to make bogus accusations (against one's victim)

1 to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong

2 to try to turn back history

3 a perverse way of doing things