1 variant: 法 fǎ

1 way of handling sth

2 method for making

3 work method

4 recipe

5 practice

6 classifier: 个 gè

1 way of thinking

2 opinion

3 notion

4 to think of a way (to do sth)

5 classifier: 个 gè

1 to recruit

2 to provoke

3 to beckon

4 to incur

5 to infect

6 contagious

7 a move (chess)

8 a maneuver

9 device

10 trick

11 to confess

1 to call out to

2 to greet

3 to say hello to

4 to inform

5 to take care of

6 to take care that one does not

1 to substitute one's words for the law (idiom); high-handedly putting one's orders above the law

1 to substitute one's words for the law and abuse power to crush it (idiom); completely lawless behavior

2 Might makes right.

1 to challenge the law (idiom)

2 to knowingly violate the law

1 lit. like a monk holding an umbrella — no hair, no sky (idiom) (punning on 髮|发[fà] vs 法[fǎ])

2 fig. defying the law and the principles of heaven

3 lawless

1 to maintain the law as firm as a mountain (idiom); to enforce the law strictly