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野兔 hare;
玉兔 the rabbit in the moon, (poet.) the moon;
兔兒爺 [tu4er0ye2]↓;
兔死狐悲 the fox is sad at death of hare--sympathy for one of its kind;
兔死狗烹 cook the hound (as no longer needed) when the hares have been run down--allu. when country was unified, the king killed off his underlings;
兔起鶻落 the moment a hare is flushed out, the falcon swoops down--said of quick flow of writer's thoughts and imagination;
脫兔 (fig.) swift-footed hare, which has escaped a chase.
2.兔缺 [tu4qUe1], adj., ditto.
3.兔毫 [tu4hao2], n., writing brush made of rabbit's hair.
4.兔葵 [tu4kui2], n., (1) (zoo.) the sea anemone; (2) (bot.) the winter aconite (also wr. 菟葵).
5.兔兒爺 [tu4er0ye2] n., (1) clay rabbit at Mid-Autumn Festival; (2) (coll.) a pederast.
6.兔絲 [tu4si1], n., the dodder (also wr. 菟絲).
7.兔脫 [tu4tuo1], v.i., make good one's escape.
8.兔子 [tu4zi0], n., rabbit.
9.兔園策 [tu4yUan2ce4] n., popular books for villagers; chapbooks (also wr. 兔園冊).