Vocabulary
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| 俗语 俗語 | common saying; proverb; colloquial speech | Colloquialism |
| 闺女 閨女 | maiden; unmarried woman; (coll.) daughter | Colloquialism |
| 窑 窯 | kiln; oven; coal pit; cave dwelling; (coll.) brothel | Colloquialism |
| 好坏 好壞 | good or bad; good and bad; standard; quality; (coll.) very bad | Colloquialism |
| 耗 耗 | to waste; to spend; to consume; to squander; news; (coll.) to delay; to dilly-dally | Colloquialism |
| 损 損 | to decrease; to lose; to damage; to harm; (coll.) to ridicule; to deride; (coll.) caustic; sarcastic; nasty; mean; one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes: ䷨ | Colloquialism |
| 宰 宰 | to slaughter; to butcher; to kill (animals etc); (coll.) to fleece; to rip off; to overcharge; (bound form) to govern; to rule; (bound form) (a title for certain government officials in ancient China) | Colloquialism |
| 夸张 誇張 | to exaggerate; overstated; exaggerated; hyperbole; (coll.) excessive; ridiculous; outrageous | Colloquialism |
| 家伙 傢伙 | household dish, implement or furniture; domestic animal; (coll.) guy; chap; weapon | Colloquialism |
| 操控 操控 | to control; to manipulate | |
| 温带 溫帶 | temperate zone | |
| 节水 節水 | to save water | |
| 扑面而来 撲面而來 | lit. sth hits one in the face; directly in one's face; sth assaults the senses; blatant (advertising); eye-catching; (a smell) assaults the nostrils | |
| 多元 多元 | poly-; multi-; multielement; multivariant; multivariate (math.) | |
| 对联 對聯 | rhyming couplet; pair of lines of verse written vertically down the sides of a doorway | |
| 栋梁 棟梁 | ridgepole; ridgepole and beams; person able to bear heavy responsibility; mainstay (of organization); pillar (of state) | |
| 戈壁 戈壁 | Gobi (desert) | |
| 会意 會意 | combined ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六书 of forming Chinese characters); Chinese character that combines the meanings of existing elements; also known as joint ideogram or associative compound; to comprehend without being told explicitly; to cotton on; knowing (smile, glance etc) | |
| 华侨 華僑 | overseas Chinese; (in a restricted sense) Chinese emigrant who still retains Chinese nationality | |
| 秉承 秉承 | to take orders; to receive commands; to carry on (a tradition) | |
| 壮实 壯實 | robust; sturdy | |
| 临街 臨街 | facing the street | |
| 山岭 山嶺 | mountain ridge | |
| 嫦娥 嫦娥 | Chang'e, the lady in the moon (Chinese mythology); one of the Chang'e series of PRC lunar spacecraft | |
| 脉络 脈絡 | arteries and veins; network of blood vessels; vascular system (of a plant or animal); (fig.) fabric (i.e. underlying structure, as in "social fabric"); overall context | |
| 能耗 能耗 | energy consumption | |
| 浮力 浮力 | buoyancy | |
| 柏树 柏樹 | cypress tree; Taiwan pr. [bó shù] | |
| 人次 人次 | person-times; visits; classifier for number of people participating | |
| 荷花 荷花 | lotus | |
| 讲学 講學 | to lecture (on branch of learning) | |
| 风沙 風沙 | sand blown by wind; sandstorm | |
| 长达 長達 | to extend as long as; to lengthen out to | |
| 农历 農曆 | the traditional Chinese calendar; the lunar calendar | |
| 龙舟 龍舟 | dragon boat; imperial boat | |
| 堤坝 堤壩 | dam; dike | |
| 萌发 萌發 | to sprout; to shoot; to bud | |
| 朝代 朝代 | dynasty; reign (of a king) | |
| 碧绿 碧綠 | dark green | |
| 哺育 哺育 | to feed; (fig.) to nurture; to foster | |
| 古朴 古樸 | simple and unadorned (of art, architecture etc) | |
| 踏上 踏上 | to set foot on; to step on or into | |
| 汪洋 汪洋 | vast body of water | |
| 豪迈 豪邁 | bold; open-minded; heroic | |
| 学堂 學堂 | college; school (old) | |
| 开垦 開墾 | to clear a wild area for cultivation; to put under the plow | |
| 耸立 聳立 | to stand tall; to tower aloft | |
| 瞻仰 瞻仰 | to revere; to admire | |
| 工序 工序 | working procedure; process | |
| 艰险 艱險 | difficult and dangerous; hardships and perils |