Vocabulary
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| 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 | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 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}) | |
| 天下太平 天下太平 | the whole world at peace (idiom); peace and prosperity | Idiom |
| 意气风发 意氣風發 | (idiom) high-spirited; full of mettle | Idiom |
| 假的 假的 | bogus; ersatz; fake; mock; phony | Xiehouyu |
| 改行 改行 | to change profession | 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 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 |
| 湖北省 湖北省 | Hubei Province, capital Wuhan | Proper Noun |
| 河南 河南 | Henan Province, capital Zhengzhou | Proper Noun |
| 湖南省 湖南省 | Hunan Province, capital Changsha | Proper Noun |
| 上下五千年 上下五千年 | Tales from 5000 Years of Chinese History in three volumes by Cao Yuzhang | Proper Noun |
| 巴黎 巴黎 | Paris, capital of France | Proper Noun |
| 湖南 湖南 | Hunan Province, capital Changsha | Proper Noun |
| 东周 東周 | Eastern Zhou (770-221 BC) | Proper Noun |
| 西安 西安 | Xi'an, sub-provincial city and capital of Shaanxi Province; Xi'an District of Liaoyuan City, Jilin; Xi'an District of Mudanjiang city, Heilongjiang | Proper Noun |
| 黄河 黃河 | Yellow River or Huang He | Proper Noun |
| 名家 名家 | School of Logicians of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), also called the School of Names | Proper Noun |
| 颜真卿 顏真卿 | Yan Zhenqing (709-785), a leading calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty | Proper Noun |
| 中国红 中國紅 | vermilion | Proper Noun |
| 一带一路 一帶一路 | Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese government plan to provide finance and engineering expertise to build infrastructure across Eurasia and northeast Africa, unveiled in 2013 | Proper Noun |
| 北平 北平 | Peiping or Beiping (name of Beijing at different periods, esp. 1928-1949) | Proper Noun |
| 天安门 天安門 | Tiananmen Gate, entrance of the Imperial City in Beijing | Proper Noun |
| 大名 大名 | Daming county in Handan, Hebei | Proper Noun |
| 见过 見過 | seen | |
| 那时候 那時候 | at that time | |
| 千年 千年 | millennium | |
| 今生 今生 | this life | |
| 书画 書畫 | painting and calligraphy | |
| 战 戰 | war, fighting, battle | |
| 物 物 | thing, substance, creature | |
| 万岁 萬歲 | Long live (the king, the revolution etc)!; Your Majesty; His Majesty | |
| 林 林 | forest, grove; surname | |
| 房 房 | surname Fang | |
| 韩 韓 | fence; surname; Korea | |
| 千里 千里 | a thousand miles; a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers); a long distance | |
| 史 史 | history, chronicle, annals | |
| 纳 納 | admit, take, receive, accept | |
| 言 言 | words, speech; speak, say | |
| 载 載 | load; carry; transport, convey | |
| 一定要 一定要 | must |