Vocabulary
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| 德 德 | Germany; German; abbr. for 德国 | |
| 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 | |
| 聊胜于无 聊勝於無 | better than nothing (idiom) | Idiom |
| 操之过急 操之過急 | to act with undue haste (idiom); eager and impatient; overhasty | Idiom |
| 自生自灭 自生自滅 | to emerge and perish on its own; to run its course (idiom) | Idiom |
| 束手无策 束手無策 | lit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom); fig. helpless in the face of a crisis | Idiom |
| 杯水车薪 杯水車薪 | lit. a cup of water on a burning cart of firewood (idiom); fig. an utterly inadequate measure | Idiom |
| 瞎子摸象 瞎子摸象 | blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经[da4 ban1 Nie4 pan2 jing1]); fig. unable to see the big picture; to mistake the part for the whole; unable to see the wood for the trees | Idiom |
| 身首异处 身首異處 | to be decapitated (idiom) | Idiom |
| 丧家之犬 喪家之犬 | lit. stray dog (idiom); fig. one who has nothing to rely on | Idiom |
| 对症下药 對症下藥 | lit. to prescribe the right medicine for an illness (idiom); fig. to study a problem to find the right way to solve it; to take appropriate steps | Idiom |
| 尽心尽力 盡心盡力 | making an all-out effort (idiom); to try one's heart out; to do one's utmost | Idiom |
| 人人自危 人人自危 | everyone feels in danger; an atmosphere of general insecurity (idiom) | Xiehouyu |
| 犯困 犯睏 | (coll.) to get sleepy | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | 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) | |
| 微臣 微臣 | this small official; humble servant | |
| 禁足 禁足 | to forbid sb to go out; to confine to one location (e.g. student, soldier, prisoner, monk etc); to ground (as disciplinary measure); to gate; to curfew; restriction on movement; ban on visiting a place; out of bounds; off limits; caveat | |
| 哀家 哀家 | I, me (self-referring by a widowed empress etc, used in historical novels and operas) | |
| 尽心 盡心 | with all of one's heart | |
| 调理 調理 | to nurse one's health; to recuperate; to take care of; to look after; to discipline; to educate; to train; to prepare food; (dialect) to make fun of; (medicine) to opsonize | |
| 苍术 蒼術 | black atractylodes rhizome (dried rhizome of any of several atractylodes species) (TCM) | |
| 茯苓 茯苓 | Wolfiporia extensa (a wood-decay fungus); fu ling; tuckahoe | |
| 传旨 傳旨 | convey an edict | |
| 雨露 雨露 | rain and dew; (fig.) favor; grace | |
| 恕罪 恕罪 | please forgive me | |
| 皇子 皇子 | prince | |
| 岂不 豈不 | how couldn't...?; wouldn't it...? | |
| 宫女 宮女 | palace maid; CL:個|个[ge4],名[ming2],位[wei4] | |
| 杂役 雜役 | odd jobs; part-time worker | |
| 六宫 六宮 | empress and imperial concubines or their residence | |
| 告退 告退 | to petition for retirement (old); to ask for leave to withdraw; to ask to be excused | |
| 医治 醫治 | medical treatment | |
| 褫夺 褫奪 | to deprive; to strip of | |
| 福泽 福澤 | good fortune | |
| 佛经 佛經 | Buddhist texts; Buddhist scripture | |
| 风寒 風寒 | cold (TCM) | |
| 清瘦 清瘦 | meager | |
| 争宠 爭寵 | to strive for favor | |
| 得宠 得寵 | to be a favorite; favor | |
| 不敬 不敬 | disrespect; irreverent; rude; insufficiently respectful (to a superior) | |
| 有劳 有勞 | thank you for the trouble | |
| 砸碎 砸碎 | to pulverize; to smash to bits | |
| 煮沸 煮沸 | to boil |