1 leading role

2 lead

1 to clasp

2 to cup the hands

3 to hold up with both hands

4 to offer (esp. in cupped hands)

5 to praise

6 to flatter

1 surname Jue

1 angle

2 point of view

1 role

2 character in a novel

3 persona

4 also pr. [jiǎo sè]

1 lit. to first show one's horns (idiom); fig. a first show of emerging talent

2 first sign of emerging talent

3 budding genius

1 to fight and scheme against each other (idiom)

2 (in palace construction) elaborate and refined

1 to reveal outstanding talent (idiom); to stand out as conspicuously brilliant

1 lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom)

2 fig. to speak in a roundabout way

3 to equivocate

4 to beat about the bush

1 to hold up buttocks and praise a fart (idiom); to use flatter to get what one wants

2 to toady

3 boot-licking