Vocabulary
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| 干 乾 | dry; dried food; empty; hollow; taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster; futile; in vain; (dialect) rude; blunt; (dialect) to cold-shoulder | Xiehouyu |
| 小的 小的 | (coll.) young child; the little one(s) of the family; (old) (humble) I; me; my (used by a commoner when speaking to an official) | Colloquialism |
| 见天 見天 | (coll.) every day | Colloquialism |
| 奶奶 奶奶 | (informal) grandma (paternal grandmother); (respectful) mistress of the house; (coll.) boobies; breasts | Colloquialism |
| 菜 菜 | dish (type of food); vegetable; cuisine; (coll.) (one's) type; (of one's skills etc) weak; poor | Colloquialism |
| 肉 肉 | meat; flesh; pulp (of a fruit); (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy; (of a person) flabby; irresolute; Kangxi radical 130 | Colloquialism |
| 爸爸 爸爸 | (coll.) father; dad | Colloquialism |
| 块 塊 | lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units | Colloquialism |
| 花 花 | flower; blossom; fancy pattern; florid; to spend (money, time); (coll.) lecherous; lustful | Colloquialism |
| 着 著 | to touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding in | Colloquialism |
| 中国人 中國人 | Chinese person | Proper Noun |
| 山西 山西 | Shanxi Province, capital Taiyuan | Proper Noun |
| 天后 天后 | Tin Hau, Empress of Heaven, another name for the goddess Matsu; Tin Hau (Hong Kong area around the MTR station with same name) | Proper Noun |
| 中都 中都 | Zhongdu, capital of China during the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), modern day Beijing | Proper Noun |
| 小小 小小 | very small; very few; very minor | |
| 这种 這種 | this kind of | |
| 芥菜 芥菜 | leaf mustard (Brassica juncea); also pr. [gai4cai4] | |
| 这是 這是 | 这: this, the, here · 是: indeed, yes, right; to be; demonstrative pronoun, this, that | |
| 家的 家的 | (old) wife | |
| 一个 一個 | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) | |
| 一次 一次 | first; first time; once; (math.) linear (of degree one) | |
| 快点 快點 | to do sth more quickly; Hurry up!; Get a move on! | |
| 一种 一種 | one kind of; one type of | |
| 有了 有了 | I've got a solution!; to have a bun in the oven | |
| 并不 並不 | not at all; by no means | |
| 梅干菜 梅乾菜 | salt-pickled sun-dried cabbage (or potherb mustard etc) | |
| 十五 十五 | fifteen; 15 | |
| 老两口 老兩口 | old married couple | |
| 达 達 | arrive at, reach; intelligent; smooth, slippery | |
| 一家 一家 | the whole family; the same family; the family... (when preceded by a family name); group | |
| 十几 十幾 | more than ten; a dozen or more | |
| 和风 和風 | breeze; (Tw) Japanese-style (cooking etc) | |
| 四十 四十 | forty; 40 | |
| 是日 是日 | (formal) this day; that day | |
| 好几 好幾 | several; quite a few | |
| 几天 幾天 | several days | |
| 女的 女的 | woman | |
| 第一次 第一次 | the first time; first; number one | |
| 中人 中人 | go-between; mediator; intermediary | |
| 二十 二十 | twenty; 20 | |
| 中的 中的 | to hit the target; (fig.) to hit the nail on the head | |
| 天天 天天 | every day | |
| 风干 風乾 | to air-dry; to season (timber etc); air-dried; air-drying | |
| 下水 下水 | downstream; to go into the water; to put into water; to launch (a ship); fig. to fall into bad ways; to lead astray; to go to pot | |
| 差点 差點 | almost; nearly | |
| 家常菜 家常菜 | home cooking | |
| 五花肉 五花肉 | pork belly; streaky pork | |
| 褪去 褪去 | to take off (one's clothes); (fig.) to shed (one's former image etc); (of a fad or the after-effects of a disaster etc) to subside; also pr. [tun4 qu4] | |
| 山脊 山脊 | mountain ridge | |
| 叫做 叫做 | to be called; to be known as |