(idiomatic) holding one's breath in a tense emotional state, with bated breath

(figuratively) larger-than-life characters do not associate with unnoteworthy characters, nor do they concern themselves with trivial matters / (literally) boat-swallowing fish do not swim in tributaries

下書き: rough draft of a text / 下描き: rough sketch of a drawing

caterpillar

(botany) carpel

century egg (Chinese egg delicacy)

Alternative form of 裘

liangpi

Alternative spelling of 鞴

snakeskin / (dermatology) peeling skin syndrome, as if moulted like snakeskin / Short for 蛇皮線 (jabisen): a 三線 (sanshin, “Okinawan fretless lute”) usually made from snakeskin