Vocabulary
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| 万寿无疆 萬壽無疆 | may you enjoy boundless longevity (idiom); long may you live | Idiom |
| 焦头烂额 焦頭爛額 | lit. badly burned about the head (from trying to put out a fire) (idiom); fig. hard-pressed; under pressure (from a heavy workload, creditors etc) | Idiom |
| 头昏眼花 頭昏眼花 | to faint with blurred vision (idiom); dizzy and eyes dimmed | Idiom |
| 背井离乡 背井離鄉 | to leave one's native place, esp. against one's will (idiom) | Idiom |
| 事与愿违 事與願違 | things turn out contrary to the way one wishes (idiom) | Idiom |
| 妙不可言 妙不可言 | too wonderful for words | Idiom |
| 屁滚尿流 屁滾尿流 | to piss one's pants in terror (idiom); scared witless | Idiom |
| 不祥之兆 不祥之兆 | (idiom) bad omen | Xiehouyu |
| 老娘 老孃 | my old mother; I, this old woman; my old lady (colloquial); maternal grandmother; midwife | Colloquialism |
| 懒虫 懶蟲 | (coll.) lazybones | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 雷 雷 | thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 雷 land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb) | Colloquialism |
| 娃子 娃子 | baby; small child; (arch.) slave among ethnic minorities | |
| 炼丹 煉丹 | to concoct pills of immortality | |
| 撒野 撒野 | to display shockingly bad behavior; to behave atrociously | |
| 灰烬 灰燼 | ashes | |
| 啰嗦 囉嗦 | variant of | |
| 蛤蟆 蛤蟆 | frog; toad | |
| 化作 化作 | to change into; to turn into; to become | |
| 大怒 大怒 | to become furious; to explode in anger | |
| 磕头 磕頭 | to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground) | |
| 瞎子 瞎子 | blind person | |
| 怪罪 怪罪 | to blame | |
| 冤家 冤家 | enemy; foe; (in opera) sweetheart or destined love | |
| 宝剑 寶劍 | (double-edged) sword (esp. a valuable or famous one) | |
| 蜈蚣 蜈蚣 | centipede | |
| 有情 有情 | to be in love; sentient beings (Buddhism) | |
| 耗子 耗子 | (dialect) mouse; rat | |
| 消灾 消災 | to avoid calamities | |
| 冤仇 冤仇 | rancor; enmity; hatred resulting from grievances | |
| 动情 動情 | to get excited; passionate; aroused to passion; to fall in love; on heat (of animals) | |
| 一股子 一股子 | a whiff of; a taint of; a thread of | |
| 赖皮 賴皮 | shameless; (slang) rascal | |
| 乌龙 烏龍 | black dragon; unexpected mistake or mishap; own goal (soccer); oolong (tea); (Tw) (loanword from Japanese) udon | |
| 夸口 誇口 | to boast | |
| 顺风耳 順風耳 | sb with preternaturally good hearing (in fiction); fig. a well-informed person | |
| 瞒不过 瞞不過 | cannot conceal (a matter) from (sb) | |
| 砸碎 砸碎 | to pulverize; to smash to bits | |
| 叫唤 叫喚 | to cry out; to bark out a sound | |
| 花招 花招 | trick; maneuver; razzle-dazzle; (martial arts) fancy move; flourish | |
| 葬身 葬身 | to bury a corpse; to be buried; (fig.) to die (at sea, in a fire etc) | |
| 荒芜 荒蕪 | left to return to unchecked growth; overgrown; grown wild | |
| 心神不定 心神不定 | 心: heart; mind, intelligence; soul · 神: spirit, god, supernatural being · 不: no, not; un-; negative prefix · 定: decide, settle, fix | |
| 两样东西 兩樣東西 | two distinct things | |
| 枝叶 枝葉 | branch and leaf | |
| 光秃秃 光禿禿 | bald; bare (no hair, no leaves, no vegetation etc) | |
| 真心诚意 真心誠意 | 真: real, actual, true, genuine · 心: heart; mind, intelligence; soul · 诚: sincere, honest; true, real · 意: thought, idea, opinion; think | |
| 刀枪不入 刀槍不入 | lit. impervious to sword or spear (idiom); fig. invulnerable; untouchable; thick-skinned; impervious to criticism | |
| 小娃娃 小娃娃 | baby | |
| 丹田 丹田 | pubic region; point two inches below the navel where one's qi resides |