Vocabulary
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| 希望 希望 | to hope; a hope; a wish | |
| 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 | |
| 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}) | |
| 三天两头 三天兩頭 | lit. twice every three days (idiom); practically every day; frequently | Idiom |
| 不闻不问 不聞不問 | not to hear, not to question (idiom); to show no interest in sth; uncritical; not in the least concerned | Idiom |
| 小题大做 小題大做 | to make a big fuss over a minor issue (idiom) | Idiom |
| 没日没夜 沒日沒夜 | day and night; regardless of the time of day or night | Idiom |
| 女大十八变 女大十八變 | lit. a girl changes eighteen times between childhood and womanhood (idiom); fig. a young woman is very different from the little girl she once was | 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 |
| 口头禅 口頭禪 | Zen saying repeated as cant; (fig.) catchphrase; mantra; favorite expression; stock phrase | Idiom |
| 意气风发 意氣風發 | (idiom) high-spirited; full of mettle | Idiom |
| 千差万别 千差萬別 | (idiom) extremely diverse; to vary greatly | 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 |
| 完事 完事 | to be finished (with sth) | Xiehouyu |
| 说不通 說不通 | it does not make sense | Xiehouyu |
| 拉倒 拉倒 | (coll.) forget it; drop it; let it go; to pull down | Xiehouyu |
| 够不着 夠不著 | to be unable to reach | Xiehouyu |
| 改行 改行 | to change profession | Xiehouyu |
| 对头 對頭 | correct; normal; to be on good terms with; on the right track; right | Xiehouyu |
| 说话算数 說話算數 | to keep one's promise; to mean what one says | Xiehouyu |
| 玩完 玩完 | (coll.) to end in failure; to come to grief; to bite the dust | Xiehouyu |
| 头一回 頭一回 | the first time; for the first time | Xiehouyu |
| 出风头 出風頭 | to push oneself forward; to seek fame; to be in the limelight; same as 出锋头 | 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 |
| 这年头 這年頭 | (coll.) nowadays | Colloquialism |
| 带子 帶子 | belt; band; ribbon; strap; girdle; (coll.) audio or video tape; Farrer's scallop (Chlamys farreri); comb pen shell (Atrina pectinata) | Colloquialism |
| 老头子 老頭子 | (coll.) old man; (said of an aging husband) my old man | Colloquialism |
| 场子 場子 | (coll.) gathering place; public venue | Colloquialism |
| 老丈人 老丈人 | (coll.) father-in-law (wife's father) | Colloquialism |
| 脏病 髒病 | (coll.) venereal disease | Colloquialism |
| 给脸 給臉 | (coll.) to show respect; to give face (esp. in public to avoid embarrassment); (often sarcastic) to treat with basic courtesy (implying the recipient is undeserving) | Colloquialism |
| 狗狗 狗狗 | (coll.) dog; doggie | Colloquialism |
| 热度 熱度 | level of heat; (fig.) zeal; fervor; (coll.) a temperature (i.e. abnormally high body heat) | Colloquialism |
| 得可以 得可以 | (coll.) (stative verb suffix) very; awfully | Colloquialism |
| 字典 字典 | Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 词典, which has entries for words of one or more characters); (coll.) dictionary | Colloquialism |