Vocabulary
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| 单身 單身 | unmarried; single | |
| 素 素 | raw silk; white; plain, unadorned; vegetarian (food); essence; nature; element; constituent; usually; always; ever | |
| 设 設 | to set up; to put in place; (math.) given; suppose; if | |
| 嫁 嫁 | (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) | |
| 许 許 | to allow; to permit; to promise; to praise; somewhat; perhaps | |
| 灵 靈 | quick; alert; efficacious; effective; to come true; spirit; departed soul; coffin | |
| 格 格 | square; frame; rule; (legal) case; style; character; standard; pattern; (grammar) case; (classical) to obstruct; to hinder; (classical) to arrive; to come; (classical) to investigate; to study exhaustively | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 经 經 | classics; sacred book; scripture; to pass through; to undergo; to bear; to endure; warp (textile); longitude; menstruation; channel (TCM); abbr. for economics 经济 | |
| 文 文 | language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67 | |
| 感 感 | to feel; to move; to touch; to affect; feeling; emotion; (suffix) sense of ~ | |
| 及 及 | and; to reach; up to; in time for | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 秋高气爽 秋高氣爽 | clear and refreshing autumn weather | Idiom |
| 狗拿耗子 狗拿耗子 | lit. a dog who catches mice; to be meddlesome (idiom) | Idiom |
| 妖魔鬼怪 妖魔鬼怪 | demons and ghosts | Idiom |
| 情同手足 情同手足 | as close as one's hands and feet (idiom); loving one another as brothers; deep friendship; closely attached to one another | Idiom |
| 孔武有力 孔武有力 | courageous and strong (idiom); Herculean (physique etc) | Idiom |
| 多愁善感 多愁善感 | (idiom) emotionally sensitive and prone to melancholy | Idiom |
| 风平浪静 風平浪靜 | lit. breeze is still, waves are quiet (idiom); tranquil environment; all is quiet; a dead calm (at sea) | Idiom |
| 指腹为婚 指腹為婚 | to propose the future marriage of two unborn babies on condition that one turns out to be a boy, and the other, a girl (idiom) | Idiom |
| 守口如瓶 守口如瓶 | lit. to guard one's mouth like a closed bottle (idiom); tight-lipped; reticent; not breathing a word | Idiom |
| 吞吞吐吐 吞吞吐吐 | to hum and haw (idiom); to mumble as if hiding sth; to speak and break off, then start again; to hold sth back | Idiom |
| 各有所长 各有所長 | each has their own strengths (idiom); everyone has something they excel at | Xiehouyu |
| 不成 不成 | won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? | Xiehouyu |
| 一模一样 一模一樣 | exactly the same (idiom); carbon copy; also pr. [yī mó yī yàng] | Xiehouyu |
| 雷 雷 | thunder; (bound form) (military) mine, as in 雷 land mine; (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound; (Tw) (coll.) spoiler; (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb) | 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)? | |
| 施主 施主 | donor (Buddhist address) | |
| 爹娘 爹孃 | (dialect) parents | |
| 妖魔 妖魔 | evil spirit | |
| 长命百岁 長命百歲 | may you live to a ripe old age! ; long life and a hundred years (idiom; birthday blessing) | |
| 娘的 孃的 | same as | |
| 讨教 討教 | to consult; to ask for advice | |
| 时辰 時辰 | two-hour period | |
| 有缘 有緣 | related; brought together by fate | |
| 吟诗 吟詩 | to recite poetry | |
| 坠子 墜子 | weight; pendant; same as; ballad singing accompanied by a | |
| 姻缘 姻緣 | a marriage predestined by fate | |
| 相逢 相逢 | to meet (by chance); to come across | |
| 捕头 捕頭 | constable | |
| 投缘 投緣 | to be kindred spirits; to hit it off | |
| 姨娘 姨娘 | maternal aunt; father's concubine (old) | |
| 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 | |
| 岔路 岔路 | fork in the road | |
| 护身符 護身符 | amulet; protective talisman; charm | |
| 坎坷 坎坷 | (of a road) bumpy; (of life) rough; to be down on one's luck; to be full of frustrations and dashed hopes | |
| 锦囊 錦囊 | silk brocade bag, used in ancient times to hold poetry manuscripts and other precious items; (fig.) tip (a piece of practical advice) | |
| 大公 大公 | grand duke; impartial |