Vocabulary
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| 格 格 | square; frame; rule; (legal) case; style; character; standard; pattern; (grammar) case; (classical) to obstruct; to hinder; (classical) to arrive; to come; (classical) to investigate; to study exhaustively | |
| 需 需 | to require; to need; to want; necessity; need | |
| 所谓 所謂 | so-called; what is called | |
| 丝 絲 | silk; thread; trace; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips; classifier: a thread (of cloud, smoke etc), a bit, an iota, a hint (of sth) etc | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 经 經 | surname Jing | |
| 而已 而已 | that's all; nothing more | |
| 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° | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 身强力壮 身強力壯 | strong and vigorous; sturdy; robust | 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 |
| 顺手牵羊 順手牽羊 | lit. to lead away a goat while passing by (idiom); fig. to opportunistically pocket sb's possessions and walk off | Idiom |
| 沁人心脾 沁人心脾 | lit. to penetrate deeply into the heart (idiom); fig. to gladden the heart; to be refreshing | Idiom |
| 尽心竭力 盡心竭力 | to spare no effort (idiom); to do one's utmost | Idiom |
| 感激不尽 感激不盡 | can't thank sb enough (idiom) | Idiom |
| 糊里糊涂 糊裡糊塗 | confused; vague; indistinct; muddle-headed; mixed up; in a daze | Idiom |
| 一箭双雕 一箭雙鵰 | lit. one arrow, two golden eagles (idiom); to kill two birds with one stone | Idiom |
| 众矢之的 眾矢之的 | lit. target of a multitude of arrows (idiom); the butt of public criticism; attacked on all sides | Idiom |
| 拖拖拉拉 拖拖拉拉 | to procrastinate | Xiehouyu |
| 瞎说 瞎說 | to talk drivel; to assert sth without a proper understanding or basis in fact; not to know what one is talking about | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 却是 卻是 | nevertheless; actually; the fact is ... | |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 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 | |
| 微臣 微臣 | this small official; humble servant | |
| 哀家 哀家 | I, me (self-referring by a widowed empress etc, used in historical novels and operas) | |
| 香粉 香粉 | face powder; talcum powder | |
| 账目 賬目 | an item in accounts; an entry | |
| 脂粉 脂粉 | cosmetics | |
| 嫔妃 嬪妃 | imperial concubine | |
| 尽心 盡心 | with all of one's heart | |
| 顾忌 顧忌 | to have misgivings; apprehension; worry; qualm; scruple | |
| 账簿 賬簿 | an account book; a ledger | |
| 膝下 膝下 | at the knee (in reference to children); (salutation used in letters to parents or grandparents) | |
| 宫女 宮女 | palace maid; CL:個|个[ge4],名[ming2],位[wei4] | |
| 主子 主子 | Master (term used by servant); Your Majesty; operator (of machine) | |
| 不觉 不覺 | unconsciously | |
| 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 | |
| 不妥 不妥 | not proper; inappropriate | |
| 辰光 辰光 | sunlight; (Wu dialect) time of the day; moment | |
| 做伴 做伴 | to keep sb company; to accompany | |
| 素日 素日 | usually | |
| 闹腾 鬧騰 | to disturb; to create confusion; to make a din | |
| 尊卑 尊卑 | superior and subordinate; social ranking |