Vocabulary
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| 一面 一面 | one side; one aspect; simultaneously... (and...); one's whole face | |
| 粉 粉 | powder; cosmetic face powder; food prepared from starch; noodles or pasta made from any kind of flour; to turn to powder; (dialect) to whitewash; white; pink; (suffix) fan (abbr. for 粉丝); to be a fan of | |
| 盯 盯 | to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at | |
| 制 製 | system; to control; to regulate; variant of 制 | |
| 许 許 | surname Xu | |
| 砸 砸 | to smash; to pound; to fail; to muck up; to bungle | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 文 文 | surname Wen | |
| 而已 而已 | that's all; nothing more | |
| 则 則 | (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 未 未 | not yet; did not; have not; not; 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep; ancient Chinese compass point: 210° | |
| 及 及 | and; to reach; up to; in time for | |
| 以 㕥 | old variant of 以 | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 光彩夺目 光彩奪目 | dazzling; brilliant | Idiom |
| 满盘皆输 滿盤皆輸 | see 一著不慎，滿盤皆輸|一着不慎，满盘皆输[yi1 zhao1 bu4 shen4 , man3 pan2 jie1 shu1] | Idiom |
| 苟延残喘 苟延殘喘 | (idiom) to struggle on whilst at death's door | Idiom |
| 恭敬不如从命 恭敬不如從命 | deference is no substitute for obedience (idiom); (said to accept sb's request, invitation etc) | Idiom |
| 栩栩如生 栩栩如生 | vivid and lifelike (idiom); true to life; realistic | Idiom |
| 涂脂抹粉 塗脂抹粉 | (idiom) to put on makeup; (idiom) to prettify | Idiom |
| 风华绝代 風華絕代 | magnificent style unmatched in his generation (idiom); peerless talent | Idiom |
| 好险 好險 | to have a close call; to have a narrow escape | Xiehouyu |
| 苦心经营 苦心經營 | to build up an enterprise through painstaking efforts | Xiehouyu |
| 大功告成 大功告成 | successfully accomplished (project or goal); to be highly successful | Xiehouyu |
| 天外有天 天外有天 | lit. beyond the sky there is another sky (idiom); fig. there is always someone better; no matter how good you are, others surpass you | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 娘娘 娘娘 | queen; empress; imperial concubine; Goddess, esp. Xi Wangmu 王母娘娘 or 西王母, Queen Mother of the West; mother; aunt | |
| 臣妾 臣妾 | (literary) I, your servant (self-appellation of a lower-rank female); (archaic) male and female slaves; subjects (of a ruler) | |
| 奴婢 奴婢 | slave servant | |
| 朋党 朋黨 | clique | |
| 夫君 夫君 | my husband | |
| 自抑 自抑 | to control oneself | |
| 香粉 香粉 | face powder; talcum powder | |
| 料子 料子 | material | |
| 嫔妃 嬪妃 | imperial concubine | |
| 恰如 恰如 | just as if | |
| 制衡 制衡 | to check and balance (power); checks and balances | |
| 妄言 妄言 | lies; wild talk; to tell lies; to talk nonsense; fantasy (literature) | |
| 告退 告退 | to petition for retirement (old); to ask for leave to withdraw; to ask to be excused | |
| 娘家 孃家 | wife's family (before marriage) | |
| 赠与 贈與 | variant of 贈予|赠予[zeng4 yu3] | |
| 得宠 得寵 | to be a favorite; favor | |
| 福泽 福澤 | good fortune | |
| 添置 添置 | to buy; to acquire; to add to one's possessions | |
| 足足 足足 | fully; no less than; as much as; extremely | |
| 有劳 有勞 | thank you for the trouble | |
| 臣下 臣下 | official in feudal court; subject |