1 thing

2 object

3 classifier: 个 gè

1 person

2 character (in a play, novel etc)

3 protagonist

4 classifier: 个 gè

1 animal

2 classifier: 只 zhī

3 classifier: 群 qún

4 classifier: 个 gè

1 house pet

1 (finger) ring

1 a snap of the fingers (idiom); in a flash

2 in the twinkling of an eye

1 lit. one object bests another object

2 every item has a weakness (idiom)

3 there is a rock to every scissor, a scissor to every paper, and a paper to every rock

1 to know sth like the back of one's hand (idiom)

2 to know (a person, a place etc) inside out

1 love to all creatures (idiom, from Mencius); universal benevolence

1 to make one's hair stand up in anger (idiom); to raise people's hackles