Vocabulary
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| 嫁 嫁 | (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) | |
| 且 且 | and; moreover; yet; for the time being; to be about to; both (... and...) | |
| 许 許 | surname Xu | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 德 德 | Germany; German; abbr. for 德国 | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 牵一发而动全身 牽一髮而動全身 | lit. pulling a single hair makes the whole body move (idiom); fig. a small change in one part can affect the whole system | Idiom |
| 忠心耿耿 忠心耿耿 | loyal and devoted (idiom); faithful and true | Idiom |
| 兴风作浪 興風作浪 | to incite trouble; to stir up havoc | Idiom |
| 一网打尽 一網打盡 | lit. to catch everything in the one net (idiom); fig. to scoop up the whole lot; to capture them all in one go | Idiom |
| 用武之地 用武之地 | ample scope for abilities; favorable position for the use of one's skills (idiom) | Idiom |
| 肝脑涂地 肝腦塗地 | to offer one's life in sacrifice | Idiom |
| 爱屋及乌 愛屋及烏 | lit. love the house and its crow (idiom); involvement with sb and everyone connected; Love me, love my dog. | Idiom |
| 燃眉之急 燃眉之急 | lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation; extreme emergency | Idiom |
| 拂袖而去 拂袖而去 | to storm off in a huff (idiom) | Idiom |
| 糊里糊涂 糊裡糊塗 | confused; vague; indistinct; muddle-headed; mixed up; in a daze | Idiom |
| 执迷不悟 執迷不悟 | to obstinately persist in going about things the wrong way (idiom) | Idiom |
| 以防万一 以防萬一 | to guard against the unexpected (idiom); just in case; prepared for any eventualities | Idiom |
| 贱人 賤人 | slut; cheap person | Xiehouyu |
| 明知故问 明知故問 | (idiom) to ask a question, already knowing the answer | Xiehouyu |
| 后患无穷 後患無窮 | (idiom) there will be no end of trouble in the future | Xiehouyu |
| 拔尖 拔尖 | top-notch (colloquial); to push oneself to the front | Xiehouyu |
| 悬 懸 | to hang or suspend; to worry; public announcement; unresolved; baseless; without foundation | Xiehouyu |
| 却是 卻是 | nevertheless; actually; the fact is ... | |
| 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) | |
| 哀家 哀家 | I, me (self-referring by a widowed empress etc, used in historical novels and operas) | |
| 奴婢 奴婢 | slave servant | |
| 福晋 福晉 | in Qing dynasty, Manchurian word for wife | |
| 侍奉 侍奉 | to wait upon; to serve; to attend to sb's needs | |
| 鸳鸯 鴛鴦 | (bird species of China) mandarin duck (Aix galericulata); (fig.) affectionate couple; happily married couple | |
| 妩媚 嫵媚 | lovely; charming | |
| 圣上 聖上 | Your Majesty | |
| 两情相悦 兩情相悅 | (of a couple) to be harmonious; to be each other's sunshine | |
| 嫔妃 嬪妃 | imperial concubine | |
| 迁怒 遷怒 | to take one's anger out on sb (who does not deserve it) | |
| 乌拉 烏拉 | leather shoe stuffed with Carex meyeriana 烏拉草|乌拉草[wu4la5cao3], worn in northeastern China during winter | |
| 祭礼 祭禮 | sacrificial offerings; worship; religious rite | |
| 在天之灵 在天之靈 | soul and spirit of the deceased | |
| 六宫 六宮 | empress and imperial concubines or their residence |