麻 Stroke Order

numerous and close together / densely packed / thickly dotted / thick / dense

sackcloth

sisal hemp

to create difficulties / to invite trouble / to be troublesome

to wear mourning clothes / to be in mourning / also written 披麻帶孝|披麻带孝

to ask for trouble / to invite difficulties

to look for trouble

lit. quick sword cuts through tangled hemp (idiom); decisive action in a complex situation / cutting the Gordian knot

Malipo county in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao autonomous prefecture 文山壯族苗族自治州|文山壮族苗族自治州[Wen2 shan1 Zhuang4 zu2 Miao2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Yunnan

Ma Fei San

inconvenient / troublesome / annoying / to trouble or bother sb / to put sb to trouble

to cause trouble for sb / to inconvenience

disagreeables / a troublesome business

hot spicy soup (often sold in street stalls)

paralysis / palsy / numbness / to benumb / (fig.) to lull / negligent / apathetic

measles

urticaria / nettle rash / hives

unwary / negligent

poliomyelitis / infantile paralysis

polio (poliomyelitis)

myoparalysis / myoparesis / myoplegia

numbed / insensitive / apathetic / thick-skinned

sesame seed candy

linen or cotton fabric

hemp rope / rope made of hemp, flax, jute, etc. / hemp cord

sesame (seed)

rush (tall grass) / bulrush / Boehmeria / ramie

Indian mallow (Abutilon theophrasti) / Indian hemp (cannabis)

Semen sesami nigrum

low ranking official / petty bureaucrat