Vocabulary
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| 爹 爹 | dad | |
| 实话 實話 | truth | |
| 要不 要不 | otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...) | |
| 老大 老大 | old age; very; eldest child in a family; leader of a group; boss; captain of a boat; leader of a criminal gang | |
| 官员 官員 | official (in an organization or government); administrator | |
| 盯 盯 | to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at | |
| 且 且 | and; moreover; yet; for the time being; to be about to; both (... and...) | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 而已 而已 | that's all; nothing more | |
| 以 㕥 | to use; by means of; according to; in order to; because of; at (a certain date or place) | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 孤魂野鬼 孤魂野鬼 | wandering ghosts without living descendants to pray for them (idiom); person who has no family or friends to rely on | Idiom |
| 单刀直入 單刀直入 | (idiom) to get straight to the point | Idiom |
| 坐以待毙 坐以待斃 | to sit and wait for death (idiom); resigned to one's fate | Idiom |
| 轻举妄动 輕舉妄動 | to act blindly without thinking (idiom) | Idiom |
| 碰一鼻子灰 碰一鼻子灰 | lit. to have one's nose rubbed in the dirt; fig. to meet with a sharp rebuff | Xiehouyu |
| 麻利 麻利 | swift; agile; efficient; quick-witted (colloquial) | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | 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)? | |
| 武德 武德 | ethics (in the military or the martial arts) | |
| 郎君 郎君 | young gentleman, husband | |
| 大伯 大伯 | husband's older brother; father's older brother (esp. his oldest brother) | |
| 大嫂 大嫂 | older brother's wife; sister-in-law; elder sister (respectful appellation for an older married woman) | |
| 客官 客官 | honored customer (sir) | |
| 护着 護著 | to protect; to guard; to shield | |
| 娘娘 娘娘 | queen; empress; imperial concubine; Goddess, esp. Xi Wangmu 王母娘娘 or 西王母, Queen Mother of the West; mother; aunt | |
| 左膀右臂 左膀右臂 | trusted assistant; key aide | |
| 馄饨 餛飩 | wonton; Chinese ravioli (served in soup); Taiwan pr. [hun2dun5] | |
| 念叨 唸叨 | to talk about often; to reminisce about; to keep repeating; to keep harping on; to discuss | |
| 操持 操持 | to manage; to handle | |
| 仰仗 仰仗 | to rely on; to depend on | |
| 爹娘 爹孃 | (dialect) parents | |
| 搭把手 搭把手 | to help out | |
| 闹腾 鬧騰 | to disturb; to create confusion; to make a din | |
| 娘子 娘子 | (dialect) form of address for one's wife; polite form of address for a woman | |
| 啰嗦 囉嗦 | variant of | |
| 时辰 時辰 | two-hour period | |
| 寻思 尋思 | to consider; to ponder | |
| 忌惮 忌憚 | to be afraid of the consequences; restraining fear | |
| 设伏 設伏 | to prepare an ambush; to waylay | |
| 孤身 孤身 | alone; lonely | |
| 奉还 奉還 | to return with thanks; to give back (honorific) | |
| 赤铁矿 赤鐵礦 | hematite (red iron ore); ferric oxide Fe2O3 | |
| 灌醉 灌醉 | to fuddle; to befuddle; to inebriate; to get someone drunk | |
| 姨娘 姨娘 | maternal aunt; father's concubine (old) | |
| 捉拿 捉拿 | to arrest; to catch a criminal | |
| 临水 臨水 | facing the water (favored location) | |
| 大费周章 大費周章 | to take great pains; to go to a lot of trouble | |
| 情深义重 情深義重 | 情: feeling, sentiment, emotion · 深: deep; depth; far; very, extreme · 义: right conduct, righteousness · 重: heavy, weighty; double |