Vocabulary
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| 部 部 | ministry; department; section; part; division; troops; board; classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc | |
| 连 連 | to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也, 都 etc) even; company (military) | |
| 其实 其實 | actually; in fact; really | |
| 如何 如何 | how; what way; what | |
| 由 由 | to follow; from; because of; due to; by; via; through; (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ... | |
| 一切 一切 | everything; every; all | |
| 美 美 | (bound form) the Americas (abbr. for 洲); (bound form) USA (abbr. for 美国) | |
| 总 總 | general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably; anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later; surely; (after a person's name) abbr. for 总经理 or 总编 etc | |
| 张 張 | to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes | |
| 已 已 | already; to stop; then; afterwards | |
| 心 心 | heart; mind; intention; center; core | |
| 只是 只是 | merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however | |
| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 希望 希望 | to hope; a hope; a wish | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 所 所 | actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive | |
| 时 時 | o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 风花雪月 風花雪月 | wind, flower, snow and moon, trite poetry subject (idiom); effete language without substance; love affair; romance is in the air; dissipated life | Idiom |
| 名满天下 名滿天下 | world famous | Idiom |
| 难看 難看 | ugly; unsightly | Xiehouyu |
| 开心 開心 | to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb | Xiehouyu |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 挺好 挺好 | very good | |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 黑子 黑子 | black piece (in Chinese chess); black stone (in Go); (astronomy) sunspot | |
| 书院 書院 | academy of classical learning (Tang Dynasty - Qing Dynasty) | |
| 司 司 | take charge of, control, manage; officer | |
| 老头 老頭 | old fellow; old man; father; husband | |
| 府 府 | prefecture; prefect; government | |
| 身为 身為 | in the capacity of; as | |
| 租客 租客 | tenant | |
| 月租 月租 | to rent by the month | |
| 一定要 一定要 | must | |
| 小孩 小孩 | child | |
| 书生 書生 | scholar; intellectual; egghead | |
| 不该 不該 | should not; to owe nothing | |
| 平平 平平 | average; mediocre | |
| 店面 店面 | shop front | |
| 收租 收租 | to collect rent | |
| 靠山 靠山 | patron; backer; close to a mountain | |
| 过得 過得 | How are you getting by?; How's life?; contraction of 過得去|过得去, can get by; tolerably well; not too bad | |
| 家当 家當 | familial property; belongings | |
| 百姓 百姓 | common people | |
| 易 易 | change; easy | |
| 不带 不帶 | not to have; without; un- | |
| 小店 小店 | small store | |
| 长得 長得 | to look (pretty, the same etc) |