Vocabulary
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| 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}) | |
| 五脏六腑 五臟六腑 | five viscera and six bowels (TCM) | Idiom |
| 网开一面 網開一面 | open the net on one side (idiom); let the caged bird fly; to give one's opponent a way out; lenient treatment | Idiom |
| 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 |
| 只字不提 隻字不提 | (idiom) to say not a single word about it | Idiom |
| 灯红酒绿 燈紅酒綠 | lanterns red, wine green (idiom); feasting and pleasure-seeking; debauched and corrupt environment | Idiom |
| 奄奄一息 奄奄一息 | dying; at one's last gasp | Idiom |
| 左右为难 左右為難 | (idiom) between a rock and a hard place; in a dilemma | Idiom |
| 花天酒地 花天酒地 | to spend one's time in drinking and pleasure (idiom); to indulge in sensual pleasures; life of debauchery | Idiom |
| 白头偕老 白頭偕老 | (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 |
| 不知轻重 不知輕重 | lit. not knowing what's important (idiom); no appreciation of the gravity of things; naive; doesn't know who's who; no sense of priorities | Idiom |
| 白纸黑字 白紙黑字 | (written) in black and white | Idiom |
| 凤毛麟角 鳳毛麟角 | lit. as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns (idiom); fig. few and far between | Idiom |
| 轻车熟路 輕車熟路 | lit. to drive a lightweight chariot on a familiar road (idiom); fig. to do sth routinely and with ease; a walk in the park | Idiom |
| 假的 假的 | bogus; ersatz; fake; mock; phony | Xiehouyu |
| 有数 有數 | to have kept count; to know how many; (fig.) to know exactly how things stand; to know the score; not many; only a few | Xiehouyu |
| 轻信 輕信 | to easily trust; gullible; naïve | Xiehouyu |
| 下流 下流 | lower course of a river; low-class; mean and lowly; vulgar; obscene | Xiehouyu |
| 见不得人 見不得人 | shameful | Xiehouyu |
| 三长两短 三長兩短 | unexpected misfortune; unexpected accident; sudden death | Xiehouyu |
| 没完没了 沒完沒了 | without end; incessantly; on and on | Xiehouyu |
| 难看 難看 | ugly; unsightly | Xiehouyu |
| 难受 難受 | to feel unwell; to suffer pain; to be difficult to bear | 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 |
| 开心 開心 | to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of sb | Xiehouyu |
| 不长眼睛 不長眼睛 | (coll.) are you blind or something?; look where you're going | Colloquialism |
| 姐夫 姐夫 | (coll.) older sister's husband | Colloquialism |
| 老头子 老頭子 | (coll.) old man; (said of an aging husband) my old man | Colloquialism |
| 男子汉大丈夫 男子漢大丈夫 | (coll.) he-man | Colloquialism |
| 星星 星星 | (coll.) a star; the stars in the sky | 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 |
| 上元节 上元節 | Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春節|春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar | Proper Noun |
| 道里 道裡 | Daoli, a district of Harbin in Heilongjiang | Proper Noun |
| 万俟 万俟 | two-character surname Moqi | Proper Noun |
| 云霄 雲霄 | Yunxiao county in Zhangzhou, Fujian | Proper Noun |
| 湖里 湖裡 | Huli, a district of Xiamen City, Fujian | Proper Noun |
| 成大 成大 | National Cheng Kung University | Proper Noun |
| 周天 週天 | Sunday | Proper Noun |
| 他信 他信 | Thaksin Shinawatra (1949-), Thai businessman and politician, prime minister 2001-2006 | Proper Noun |
| 贵姓 貴姓 | what is your surname?; (May I ask) your surname? | Proper Noun |
| 大雪 大雪 | Daxue or Great Snow, 21st of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 7th-21st December | Proper Noun |
| 飞雪 飛雪 | Flying Snow, a character in "Hero" | Proper Noun |
| 黑水 黑水 | Heishui County (Tibetan: khro chu rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, northwest Sichuan | Proper Noun |
| 街市 街市 | downtown area; commercial district; (chiefly Cantonese) wet market, i.e. a marketplace selling fresh meat, fish and vegetables etc | Proper Noun |
| 长老会 長老會 | Presbyterianism | Proper Noun |