Vocabulary
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| 青 青 | abbr. for 海, Qinghai Province | |
| 之下 之下 | under; beneath; less than | |
| 回头 回頭 | to turn round; to turn one's head; later; by and by | |
| 害 害 | to do harm to; to cause trouble to; harm; evil; calamity | |
| 必 必 | certainly; must; will; necessarily | |
| 剩 剩 | to remain; to be left; to have as remainder | |
| 尤其 尤其 | especially; particularly | |
| 碎 碎 | (transitive or intransitive verb) to break into pieces; to shatter; to crumble; broken; fragmentary; scattered; garrulous | |
| 皮肤 皮膚 | skin | |
| 戏 戲 | variant of 戏 | |
| 加上 加上 | plus; to put in; to add; to add on; to add into; in addition; on top of that | |
| 待 待 | to stay | |
| 抢 搶 | (literary) to knock against (esp. to knock one's head on the ground in grief or rage); opposite in direction; contrary | |
| 居然 居然 | unexpectedly; to one's surprise; go so far as to | |
| 陪 陪 | to accompany; to keep sb company; to assist; old variant of 赔 | |
| 其 其 | his; her; its; their; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it) | |
| 肯定 肯定 | to be certain; to be positive; assuredly; definitely; to give recognition; to affirm; affirmative (answer) | |
| 如此 如此 | like this; so; such | |
| 将 將 | will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) | |
| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 移山倒海 移山倒海 | lit. to move mountains and drain seas; to transform nature | Idiom |
| 南柯一梦 南柯一夢 | lit. a dream of Nanke; fig. dreams of grandeur | Idiom |
| 寒酸 寒酸 | wretched; poverty-stricken; unpresentable (for clothing, gifts etc) | Xiehouyu |
| 无事生非 無事生非 | to make trouble out of nothing | Xiehouyu |
| 贴心 貼心 | intimate; close; considerate | Xiehouyu |
| 无心 無心 | unintentionally; not in the mood to | Xiehouyu |
| 大方 大方 | expert; scholar; mother earth; a type of green tea | Xiehouyu |
| 热闹 熱鬧 | bustling with noise and excitement; lively | Xiehouyu |
| 苦 苦 | bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly | Xiehouyu |
| 无法 無法 | unable; incapable | Xiehouyu |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 内务府 內務府 | Imperial Household Department (in Qing dynasty) | Proper Noun |
| 直隶 直隸 | Zhili, a province from Ming times until 1928, roughly corresponding to present-day Hebei | Proper Noun |
| 巡抚 巡撫 | inspector-general of province in Ming and Qing times | Proper Noun |
| 周宁 周寧 | Zhouning county in Ningde 寧德|宁德[Ning2 de2], Fujian | Proper Noun |
| 金安 金安 | Jin'an, a district of Lu'an City 六安市[Lu4an1 Shi4], Anhui | Proper Noun |
| 诗书 詩書 | the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经[Shi1 jing1] and the Book of History 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1] | Proper Noun |
| 陕甘 陝甘 | Shaanxi and Gansu provinces | Proper Noun |
| 欧阳 歐陽 | two-character surname Ouyang | Proper Noun |
| 扬州 揚州 | see 揚州市|扬州市[Yang2zhou1 Shi4] | Proper Noun |
| 和田玉 和田玉 | nephrite; Hotan jade | Proper Noun |
| 万安 萬安 | Wan'an county in Ji'an 吉安, Jiangxi | Proper Noun |
| 三国志 三國志 | History of the Three Kingdoms, fourth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史[Er4 shi2 si4 Shi3], composed by Chen Shou 陳壽|陈寿[Chen2 Shou4] in 289 during Jin Dynasty 晉朝|晋朝[Jin4 chao2], 65 scrolls | Proper Noun |
| 唐朝 唐朝 | Tang dynasty | Proper Noun |
| 牡丹亭 牡丹亭 | The Peony Pavilion (1598), play by Tang Xianzu 湯顯祖|汤显祖[Tang1 Xian3 zu3] | Proper Noun |
| 若是 若是 | if | |
| 王爷 王爺 | prince; marquis; nobleman | |
| 请安 請安 | to pay respects; to wish good health; in Qing times, a specific form of salutation (see also 打千[da3 qian1]) | |
| 谢 謝 | thank | |
| 兄 兄 | elder brother |