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The Postal Stations

S1E3 · 驿站 yìzhàn

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6.4 Advanced

Vocabulary

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需要 需要 xū yào to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs HSK 3
时 時 shí o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period HSK 3
就是 就是 jiù shì exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if HSK 3
被 被 bèi 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) HSK 3
把 把 bǎ 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}) HSK 3
河西 河西 Hé xī land west of the Yellow river; Shaanxi, Qinghai and Gansu provinces Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
长子 長子 Zhǎng zǐ Zhangzi county in Shanxi Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
伊犁河 伊犁河 Yī lí Hé Ili River in central Asia Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
伊朗 伊朗 Yī lǎng Iran Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
新疆 新疆 Xīn jiāng Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, capital Ürümqi Proper Noun ∼HSK 2
夫 夫 fū man, male adult, husband; those ∼HSK 2
向西 向西 xiàng xī westward ∼HSK 2
戍边 戍邊 shù biān to garrison the border; to guard the frontier; exile to a border garrison post ∼HSK 2
两千年 兩千年 liǎng qiān nián the year 2000; 2000 years ∼HSK 2
郡 郡 jùn administrative division ∼HSK 2
边关 邊關 biān guān border station; strategic defensive position on frontier ∼HSK 2
义 義 Yì right conduct, righteousness ∼HSK 2
通向 通向 tōng xiàng to lead to ∼HSK 2
营 營 yíng encampment, barracks; manage ∼HSK 2
带回 帶回 dài huí to bring back ∼HSK 2
商队 商隊 shāng duì caravan ∼HSK 2
外交事务 外交事務 wài jiāo shì wù foreign affairs ∼HSK 2
部落 部落 bù luò tribe ∼HSK 2
世 世 Shì generation; world; era ∼HSK 2
信函 信函 xìn hán letter; piece of correspondence (incl. email) ∼HSK 2
欲 慾 yù desire, want, long for; intend ∼HSK 2
封装 封裝 fēng zhuāng to encapsulate; to enclose; to wrap; to seal inside ∼HSK 2
平信 平信 píng xìn ordinary mail (as opposed to air mail etc) ∼HSK 2
狗吠 狗吠 gǒu fèi bark; to bark ∼HSK 2
将会 將會 jiāng huì auxiliary verb introducing future action: may (be able to); will (cause); should (enable); going to ∼HSK 2
象 象 xiàng elephant; ivory; figure, image ∼HSK 2
角楼 角樓 jiǎo lóu corner (between walls) ∼HSK 2
要道 要道 yào dào major road; thoroughfare; main road ∼HSK 2
宾客 賓客 bīn kè guests; visitors ∼HSK 2
吃完 吃完 chī wán to finish eating ∼HSK 2
背影 背影 bèi yǐng rear view; figure seen from behind; view of the back (of a person or object) ∼HSK 2
睡意 睡意 shuì yì sleepiness ∼HSK 2
封一 封一 fēng yī front cover ∼HSK 2
联 聯 lián connect, join; associate, ally ∼HSK 2
求得 求得 qiú dé to ask for sth and receive it; to try to obtain; to look for and obtain ∼HSK 2
年长 年長 nián zhǎng senior ∼HSK 2
气度 氣度 qì dù bearing; manner; presence ∼HSK 2
万人 萬人 wàn rén ten thousand people; all the people; everyman ∼HSK 2
战 戰 zhàn war, fighting, battle ∼HSK 2
画像 畫像 huà xiàng portrait; to do a portrait of sb ∼HSK 2
工作者 工作者 gōng zuò zhě worker ∼HSK 2
边长 邊長 biān cháng (geometry) side length ∼HSK 2
眼中 眼中 yǎn zhōng in (sb's) eyes ∼HSK 2
数万 數萬 shù wàn several tens of thousands; many thousand ∼HSK 2
器 器 qì receptacle, vessel; instrument ∼HSK 2