Vocabulary
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| 气势磅礴 氣勢磅礴 | 气: steam, vapor; KangXi radical 84 · 势: power, force; tendency · 磅: pound; weigh · 礴: fill, extend | Idiom |
| 难于上青天 難於上青天 | 难: difficult, arduous, hard; unable · 于: in, on, at; go to; surname · 上: top; superior, highest; go up, send up · 青: blue, green, black; young · 天: sky, heaven; god, celestial | Idiom |
| 人来人往 人來人往 | 人: man; people; mankind; someone else · 来: come, coming; return, returning · 人: man; people; mankind; someone else · 往: go, depart; past, formerly | Idiom |
| 一片汪洋 一片汪洋 | 一: one; a, an; alone · 片: slice, splinter, strip; rad. 91 · 汪: vast, extensive, deep; surname · 洋: ocean, sea; foreign; western | Idiom |
| 山光水色 山光水色 | 山: mountain, hill, peak · 光: light, brilliant, shine; only · 水: water, liquid, lotion, juice · 色: color, tint, hue, shade; form, body; beauty, desire for beauty | Idiom |
| 纵横交错 縱橫交錯 | criss-crossed (idiom) | Idiom |
| 前赴后继 前赴後繼 | to advance dauntlessly in wave upon wave (idiom) | Idiom |
| 举世无双 舉世無雙 | unrivaled (idiom); world number one; unique; unequaled | Idiom |
| 千军万马 千軍萬馬 | magnificent army with thousands of men and horses (idiom); impressive display of manpower; all the King's horses and all the King's men | Idiom |
| 朝夕相处 朝夕相處 | to spend all one's time together (idiom) | Idiom |
| 耳熟能详 耳熟能詳 | what's frequently heard can be repeated in detail (idiom) | Idiom |
| 触目惊心 觸目驚心 | lit. shocks the eye, astonishes the heart (idiom); shocking; horrible to see; a ghastly sight | Idiom |
| 日复一日 日復一日 | day after day | Idiom |
| 家喻户晓 家喻戶曉 | understood by everyone (idiom); well known; a household name | Idiom |
| 应有尽有 應有盡有 | everything that should be here is here (idiom); all one can think of is on hand; to have all one needs | Idiom |
| 当之无愧 當之無愧 | fully deserving, without any reservations (idiom); entirely worthy (of a title, honor etc) | Idiom |
| 名副其实 名副其實 | not just in name only, but also in reality (idiom); aptly named; worthy of the name | Idiom |
| 稀少 稀少 | sparse; rare | Xiehouyu |
| 荒凉 荒涼 | desolate | Xiehouyu |
| 高调 高調 | high-sounding speech; bombast; high-profile | Xiehouyu |
| 微不足道 微不足道 | negligible; insignificant | Xiehouyu |
| 漂浮 漂浮 | to float; to hover; to drift (also fig., to lead a wandering life); to rove; showy; superficial | Xiehouyu |
| 刻苦 刻苦 | hardworking; assiduous | Xiehouyu |
| 与众不同 與眾不同 | to stand out from the masses (idiom) | Xiehouyu |
| 罕见 罕見 | rare; rarely seen | Xiehouyu |
| 着手 著手 | to put one's hand to it; to start out on a task; to set out | Xiehouyu |
| 衣裳 衣裳 | (coll.) clothes | 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 |
| 家伙 傢伙 | household dish, implement or furniture; domestic animal; (coll.) guy; chap; weapon | Colloquialism |
| 操控 操控 | to control; to manipulate | |
| 节水 節水 | to save water | |
| 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) | |
| 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 | |
| 山岭 山嶺 | mountain ridge | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 堤坝 堤壩 | dam; dike |