Vocabulary
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| 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 | |
| 种 種 | seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts | |
| 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 | |
| 并 並 | and; furthermore; also; together with; (not) at all; simultaneously; to combine; to join; to merge | |
| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 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}) | |
| 十万八千里 十萬八千里 | light-years (apart); a million miles (apart); (i.e. indicates a huge difference or a huge distance) | Idiom |
| 小家子气 小家子氣 | petty; small-minded | Idiom |
| 说来话长 說來話長 | start explaining and it's a long story (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly | Idiom |
| 万水千山 萬水千山 | ten thousand crags and torrents (idiom); the trials and tribulations of a long journey; a long and difficult road | Idiom |
| 不远千里 不遠千里 | make light of traveling a thousand li; go to the trouble of traveling a long distance | Idiom |
| 三天两头 三天兩頭 | lit. twice every three days (idiom); practically every day; frequently | Idiom |
| 左右为难 左右為難 | (idiom) between a rock and a hard place; in a dilemma | Idiom |
| 天涯海角 天涯海角 | Tianya Haijiao, tourism area on the south coast of Hainan, 24 km west of Sanya | Idiom |
| 白头到老 白頭到老 | (to live together until the) white hairs of old age (idiom); to live to a ripe old age in conjugal bliss; until death do us part | Idiom |
| 班门弄斧 班門弄斧 | to display one's slight skill before an expert (idiom) | Idiom |
| 假的 假的 | bogus; ersatz; fake; mock; phony | Xiehouyu |
| 高才 高才 | great talent; rare capability; person of outstanding ability | Xiehouyu |
| 够不着 夠不著 | to be unable to reach | Xiehouyu |
| 毛手毛脚 毛手毛腳 | carelessly and haphazardly; to paw; to grope; to get fresh | Xiehouyu |
| 不要脸 不要臉 | to have no sense of shame; shameless | Xiehouyu |
| 没完没了 沒完沒了 | without end; incessantly; on and on | Xiehouyu |
| 难看 難看 | ugly; unsightly | Xiehouyu |
| 难过 難過 | to feel sad; to feel unwell; (of life) to be difficult | Xiehouyu |
| 正好 正好 | just (in time); just right; just enough; to happen to; to chance to; by chance; it just so happens that | Xiehouyu |
| 水草 水草 | aquatic plants; water and grass (i.e. favorable foraging land for livestock or wild animals); (Malaysia) (coll.) drinking straw | Colloquialism |
| 老头子 老頭子 | (coll.) old man; (said of an aging husband) my old man | Colloquialism |
| 老丈人 老丈人 | (coll.) father-in-law (wife's father) | Colloquialism |
| 要脸 要臉 | (coll.) to have a sense of shame | Colloquialism |
| 干活儿 幹活兒 | erhua variant of 干活; (coll.) to work; (coll.) to be employed | Colloquialism |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 猫 貓 | cat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (coll.) modem | Colloquialism |
| 挺 挺 | straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns | Colloquialism |
| 拉 拉 | to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels | Colloquialism |
| 道长 道長 | Taoist priest; Daoist priest | Proper Noun |
| 东海 東海 | East China Sea; East Sea (Chinese mythology and ancient geography) | Proper Noun |
| 天河 天河 | Milky Way; Tianhe District of Guangzhou City, Guangdong | Proper Noun |
| 南海 南海 | South China Sea | Proper Noun |
| 万年 萬年 | Wannian county in Shangrao 上饒|上饶, Jiangxi | Proper Noun |
| 西海 西海 | Yellow Sea (Korean term) | Proper Noun |
| 天网 天網 | Skynet (nationwide video surveillance system in China) | Proper Noun |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 快点儿 快點兒 | erhua variant of 快点; to do smh more quickly; Hurry up! | |
| 挺好 挺好 | very good |