1 surname Mu

1 variant: 老板 lǎo bǎn

1 motherboard (computing)

1 stiff

2 inflexible

3 mechanical

4 stubborn

5 to cut blocks for printing

1 to signal the musicians (in Chinese opera, by prolonging a spoken word before attacking a song)

2 (coll.) to challenge

1 lit. a single post cannot prop up a falling house (idiom)

2 fig. one is helpless alone

1 lit. one strong beat and one weak beats in a measure of music (two beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. follow a prescribed pattern to the letter

2 scrupulous attention to detail

1 lit. one strong beat and three weak beats in a measure of music (four beats in the bar) (idiom); fig. scrupulous attention to detail

1 Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence

1 lit. you hit the high road, I'll cross the log bridge (idiom)

2 fig. you go your way, I'll go mine

3 you do it your way, I'll do it mine