Dream in Red Mansions
Episode review
Baoyu, Daiyu, and Baochai's First Meeting at the Hall of Glorious Pageant
S1E2 · 宝黛钗初会荣庆堂
Vocabulary
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| 蒙 濛 | drizzle; mist | |
| 护 護 | to protect | |
| 埋 埋 | to bury | |
| 公 公 | public; collectively owned; common; international (e.g. high seas, metric system, calendar); make public; fair; just; Duke, highest of five orders of nobility 位; honorable (gentlemen); father-in-law; male (animal) | |
| 不见 不見 | not to see; not to meet; to have disappeared; to be missing | |
| 除 除 | to get rid of; to remove; to exclude; to eliminate; to wipe out; to divide; except; not including | |
| 罪 罪 | guilt; crime; fault; blame; sin | |
| 犯 犯 | to violate; to offend; to assault; criminal; crime; to make a mistake; recurrence (of mistake or sth bad) | |
| 命 命 | life; fate; order or command; to assign a name, title etc | |
| 若 若 | to seem; like; as; if | |
| 尽 儘 | to the greatest extent; (when used before a noun of location) furthest or extreme; to be within the limits of; to give priority to | |
| 据 㨿 | used in 据 | |
| 便 便 | plain; informal; suitable; convenient; opportune; to urinate or defecate; equivalent to 就: then; in that case; even if; soon afterwards | |
| 于 於 | (of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by | |
| 儿戏 兒戲 | child's play; trifling matter | Xiehouyu |
| 姨妈 姨媽 | (coll.) mother's sister; maternal aunt | Colloquialism |
| 姑妈 姑媽 | (coll.) father's married sister; paternal aunt | Colloquialism |
| 老爷 老爺 | master, sir | |
| 薛 薛 | kind of marsh grass; feudal state | |
| 蟠 蟠 | coil; coiling, curling; occupy | |
| 莲 蓮 | lotus, water lily; paradise | |
| 冯 馮 | surname; gallop; by dint of | |
| 葫芦 葫蘆 | gourd | |
| 荣 榮 | glory, honor; flourish, prosper | |
| 甄 甄 | to examine, discern; to grade; a surname | |
| 黛 黛 | blacken eyebrows; black | |
| 钗 釵 | ornamental hairpin | |
| 俱 俱 | all, together; accompany | |
| 渊 淵 | surge up, bubble up, gush forth | |
| 颦 顰 | frown, knit brows; with knitted | |
| 袭 襲 | raid, attack; inherit | |
| 可好 可好 | good or not?; luckily; fortuitously | |
| 尊 尊 | honored | |
| 画眉 畫眉 | to apply makeup to the eyebrows; (bird species of China) Chinese hwamei (Garrulax canorus) | |
| 眉间 眉間 | the flat area of forehead between the eyebrows; glabella | |
| 蹙 蹙 | urgent, suddenly; grieve, lament | |
| 劳什子 勞什子 | (dialect) nuisance; pain | |
| 骂人 罵人 | to swear or curse (at people); to scold or yell at someone | |
| 孝心 孝心 | filial piety (a Confucian obligation); respect and obedience to one's parents | |
| 鹃 鵑 | cuckoo | |
| 摔坏 摔壞 | to drop and break | |
| 知府 知府 | prefectural magistrate (during Tang to Qing times) | |
| 荐 薦 | repeat, reoccur; recommend | |
| 乃是 乃是 | equivalent to either or | |
| 霸 覇 | tyrant, dominate | |
| 豪 豪 | brave, heroic, chivalrous | |
| 放屁 放屁 | to fart; to break wind; to talk nonsense; Utter rubbish! | |
| 是故 是故 | therefore; so; consequently | |
| 蓄 蓄 | store, save, hoard, gather | |
| 荣任 榮任 | to be appointed or elevated to a post |