1 old variant of 拿[ná]

1 to bring

2 to fetch

3 to get

1 to let go

2 to cast

3 to let loose

4 to discharge

5 to give expression to

1 Caesar or Kaiser (name)

1 Caribbean

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

2 one doesn't act without some incentive

1 lit. the mouth that has been fed by others is soft, the hand that has received doesn't reach (idiom)

2 fig. one is partial to those from whom presents have been accepted

1 lit. to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom)

2 fig. to act in the nick of time

1 lit. can pick it up or put it down (idiom)

2 fig. to take what comes

3 to meet gains or losses with equanimity

1 to wave a chicken feather as a token of authority (idiom); to assume unwarranted authority on the basis of some pretext