Vocabulary
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| 押 押 | to mortgage; to pawn; to detain in custody; to escort and protect; (literary) to sign | |
| 废 廢 | to abolish; to abandon; to abrogate; to discard; to depose; to oust; crippled; abandoned; waste | |
| 指望 指望 | to count on; to hope for; prospect; hope | |
| 亲戚 親戚 | a relative (i.e. family relation) | |
| 劫 刦 | variant of 劫 | |
| 无论如何 無論如何 | whatever the case; in any event; no matter what; by all possible means | |
| 哎呀 哎呀 | interjection of wonder, shock or admiration | |
| 敬 敬 | (bound form) respectful; to respect; to offer politely | |
| 爹 爹 | dad | |
| 桩 樁 | stump; stake; pile; classifier for items | |
| 欺骗 欺騙 | to deceive; to cheat | |
| 贼 賊 | thief; traitor; wily; deceitful; evil; extremely | |
| 堂 堂 | (main) hall; large room for a specific purpose; relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family; of the same clan; classifier for classes, lectures etc; classifier for sets of furniture | |
| 业 業 | line of business; industry; occupation; job; employment; school studies; enterprise; property; (Buddhism) karma; deed; to engage in; already | |
| 他人 他人 | another person; sb else; other people | |
| 恭喜 恭喜 | to congratulate; (interj.) congratulations! | |
| 且 且 | and; moreover; yet; for the time being; to be about to; both (... and...) | |
| 哎 哎 | hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation) | |
| 许 許 | surname Xu | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 情 情 | feeling; emotion; passion; situation | |
| 哦 哦 | to chant | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 十之八九 十之八九 | most likely; mostly (in 8 or 9 cases out of 10); vast majority | Idiom |
| 先斩后奏 先斬後奏 | lit. first execute the criminal, then report it to the emperor (idiom); fig. to take some drastic action without the prior approval of higher authorities | Idiom |
| 断垣残壁 斷垣殘壁 | lit. walls reduced to rubble (idiom); fig. scene of devastation; ruins | Idiom |
| 斤斤计较 斤斤計較 | to haggle over every ounce; (fig.) to fuss over minor matters; to split hairs | Idiom |
| 千娇百媚 千嬌百媚 | (idiom) (of a woman) bewitching; charming | Idiom |
| 慈眉善目 慈眉善目 | lit. kind brows, pleasant eyes (idiom); fig. amiable looking; benign-faced | Idiom |
| 料事如神 料事如神 | to prophesy with supernatural accuracy (idiom); to have an incredible foresight | Idiom |
| 大义灭亲 大義滅親 | to place righteousness before family (idiom); ready to punish one's own family if justice demands it | Idiom |
| 恭敬不如从命 恭敬不如從命 | deference is no substitute for obedience (idiom); (said to accept sb's request, invitation etc) | Idiom |
| 八拜之交 八拜之交 | sworn brotherhood; intimate friendship | Idiom |
| 安居乐业 安居樂業 | to live in peace and work happily (idiom) | Idiom |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 不通 不通 | to be obstructed; to be blocked up; to be impassable; to make no sense; to be illogical | Xiehouyu |
| 大娘 大娘 | (coll.) father's older brother's wife; aunt (polite address) | Colloquialism |
| 嘛 嘛 | used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? | Colloquialism |
| 有没有 有沒有 | (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? | |
| 娘子 娘子 | (dialect) form of address for one's wife; polite form of address for a woman | |
| 相公 相公 | lord; master; young gentleman; male prostitute; catamite; mahjong player disqualified by unintentionally taking in the wrong number of dominoes; (old form of address for one's husband) husband | |
| 家娘 家娘 | (dialect) husband's mother | |
| 红烛 紅燭 | red candle (used during birthdays and other celebrations) | |
| 从实招来 從實招來 | to own up to the facts | |
| 打劫 打劫 | to loot; to rob; to plunder; to ransack | |
| 恕罪 恕罪 | please forgive me | |
| 牧童 牧童 | shepherd boy | |
| 罗嗦 羅嗦 | erroneous variant of 囉唆|啰唆[luo1suo5] | |
| 新郎倌 新郎倌 | bridegroom; groom | |
| 新娘子 新娘子 | see 新娘[xin1 niang2] |