To offer suggestions or devise strategies on behalf of another person.

(literary) to help someone draw up a plan; to give advice to someone in power

(literary) to pick up food with chopsticks; to start a meal

to pick up chopsticks; to start eating a meal

to advise others on their strategy; to offer a plan for someone else, literally to borrow chopsticks to map out a strategy

icicle or ice pillar (variant form)

to divide family property and live in separate households

iron chopsticks used for poking and moving charcoal in a stove or furnace

chopsticks made of jade

(literary variant) to offer strategies or plans for others; to help others make decisions

chopsticks made from ivory

Ivory chopsticks and jade cups; a set phrase describing a life of extreme luxury and extravagance.

To drop one's chopsticks upon hearing thunder; describes masking one's true feelings or shock with a clever excuse. This refers to a story from the [[三国志|三國志|san1 guo2 zhi4]] where Liu Bei dropped his chopsticks after Cao Cao called him a hero, and then blamed the noise of thunder for his reaction.