Vocabulary
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| 眼不见为净 眼不見為淨 | what remains unseen is deemed to be clean; what the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over (idiom) | Idiom |
| 名正言顺 名正言順 | in a way that justifies the use of the term; genuine; proper; in a way that conforms to logic; justifiable; appropriate; perfectly legitimate | Idiom |
| 混账 混賬 | shameful; absolutely disgraceful! | Xiehouyu |
| 做作 做作 | affected; artificial | Xiehouyu |
| 添堵 添堵 | to make people feel even more stressed or annoyed (coll.); to make traffic congestion even worse | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 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)? | |
| 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 | |
| 福晋 福晉 | in Qing dynasty, Manchurian word for wife | |
| 格格 格格 | princess (loanword from Manchu, used in the Qing Dynasty) | |
| 臣妾 臣妾 | (literary) I, your servant (self-appellation of a lower-rank female); (archaic) male and female slaves; subjects (of a ruler) | |
| 乌拉 烏拉 | leather shoe stuffed with Carex meyeriana 烏拉草|乌拉草[wu4la5cao3], worn in northeastern China during winter | |
| 告退 告退 | to petition for retirement (old); to ask for leave to withdraw; to ask to be excused | |
| 侍妾 侍妾 | concubine | |
| 时辰 時辰 | two-hour period | |
| 息怒 息怒 | to calm down; to quell one's anger | |
| 分忧 分憂 | to share tribulations; to help sb with worries and difficulties | |
| 娘的 孃的 | same as 媽的|妈的[ma1 de5] | |
| 姑母 姑母 | father's sister; paternal aunt | |
| 进宫 進宮 | to enter the emperor's palace; (slang) to go to jail | |
| 嚷嚷 嚷嚷 | to argue noisily; to shout; to make widely known; to reproach | |
| 奴婢 奴婢 | slave servant | |
| 臣子 臣子 | official in feudal court; subject | |
| 偏心 偏心 | partial; biased; prejudiced; eccentric | |
| 何须 何須 | there is no need; why should | |
| 痴情 癡情 | infatuation | |
| 这般 這般 | in this way | |
| 枕边人 枕邊人 | the person who shares one's bed; partner; spouse | |
| 念叨 唸叨 | to talk about often; to reminisce about; to keep repeating; to keep harping on; to discuss | |
| 嬷嬷 嬤嬤 | (dialect) elderly lady; wet nurse; Catholic nun | |
| 不觉 不覺 | unconsciously | |
| 奉旨 奉旨 | by imperial decree | |
| 拱手 拱手 | to cup one's hands in obeisance or greeting; (fig.) submissive | |
| 德政 德政 | benevolent government | |
| 惫懒 憊懶 | naughty; mischievous person | |
| 建功立业 建功立業 | to achieve or accomplish goals | |
| 不成器 不成器 | 不: no, not; un-; negative prefix · 成: completed, finished, fixed · 器: receptacle, vessel; instrument | |
| 开蒙 開蒙 | (old) (of a child) to begin schooling | |
| 凡事 凡事 | everything | |
| 贤能 賢能 | sage | |
| 慈爱 慈愛 | love; devotion (to children); affection, esp. towards children | |
| 愈发 愈發 | all the more; increasingly | |
| 奉上 奉上 | to offer | |
| 生津 生津 | (TCM) to promote the secretion of saliva | |
| 怪罪 怪罪 | to blame | |
| 唤作 喚作 | to be called; to be known as | |
| 开解 開解 | to straighten out; to explain; to ease sb's anxiety | |
| 嘟囔 嘟囔 | to mumble to oneself | |
| 琵琶 琵琶 | pipa, Chinese lute, with 4 strings, a large pear-shaped body and a fretted fingerboard |