1 life

2 fate

3 order or command

4 to assign a name, title etc

1 fate

2 destiny

3 classifier: 个 gè

1 year of one's birth sign, according to the cycle of 12 animals of the earthly branches 地支[dì zhī]

1 root

2 basis

3 classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings

4 classifier: 条 tiáo

5 radical (chemistry)

1 according to

2 based on

3 basis

4 foundation

5 classifier: 个 gè

1 to die (idiom)

2 to breathe one's last

3 to give up the ghost

1 runaway (idiom); desperate criminal

2 fugitive

1 human life is beyond value (idiom)

1 to dig up roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth

1 lit. cut grass and pull out roots (idiom); fig. to destroy root and branch

2 to eradicate