Vocabulary
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| 文 文 | language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67 | |
| 主 主 | owner; master; host; individual or party concerned; God; Lord; main; to indicate or signify; trump card (in card games) | |
| 未 未 | not yet; did not; have not; not; 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep; ancient Chinese compass point: 210° | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 是非曲直 是非曲直 | lit. right and wrong, crooked and straight (idiom); fig. merits and demerits; pros and cons | Idiom |
| 妖魔鬼怪 妖魔鬼怪 | demons and ghosts | Idiom |
| 心惊胆战 心驚膽戰 | lit. heart alarmed, trembling in fear (idiom); prostrate with fear; scared witless | Idiom |
| 打入冷宫 打入冷宮 | (idiom) to snub; to consign to the trash heap of history | Idiom |
| 好吃懒做 好吃懶做 | happy to partake but not prepared to do any work (idiom); all take and no give | Idiom |
| 娃儿 娃兒 | children (colloquial) | Colloquialism |
| 兴许 興許 | (coll.) perhaps | Colloquialism |
| 拉扯大 拉扯大 | (coll.) to bring up; to rear; to raise | Colloquialism |
| 就算 就算 | (coll.) even if | 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)? | |
| 耳坠子 耳墜子 | eardrops (pendant jewelry); earrings | |
| 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 | |
| 不妥 不妥 | not proper; inappropriate | |
| 大仙 大仙 | Great Immortal | |
| 我儿 我兒 | my child | |
| 国师 國師 | national preceptor | |
| 进宫 進宮 | to enter the emperor's palace; (slang) to go to jail | |
| 大伯 大伯 | husband's older brother; father's older brother (esp. his oldest brother) | |
| 哭丧 哭喪 | to wail at a funeral; formal wailing while offering sacrifice to the departed | |
| 过继 過繼 | to adopt; to give for adoption (usually to a childless relative) | |
| 坠子 墜子 | weight; pendant; same as; ballad singing accompanied by a | |
| 有何 有何 | what is there | |
| 摸清 摸清 | to suss out; to figure out; to ascertain | |
| 寻仇 尋仇 | to carry out a vendetta against sb | |
| 晕乎 暈乎 | dizzy; giddy | |
| 侄儿 侄兒 | nephew | |
| 撺掇 攛掇 | to urge sb on | |
| 婆娘 婆娘 | woman (derog.) | |
| 爹娘 爹孃 | (dialect) parents | |
| 乳名 乳名 | infant name; pet name for a child | |
| 显灵 顯靈 | (of a supernatural or divine being) to appear; to make itself manifest | |
| 爹爹 爹爹 | daddy; granddad | |
| 岔子 岔子 | branch road; setback; accident; hiccup | |
| 嫌隙 嫌隙 | hostility; animosity | |
| 魔怔 魔怔 | crazed; possessed; bewitched | |
| 闭上 閉上 | to close; to shut up | |
| 红斑 紅斑 | (medicine) erythema | |
| 不可置信 不可置信 | unbelievable; incredible | |
| 唾沫星子 唾沫星子 | sputter | |
| 欲绝 欲絕 | heartbroken; inconsolable | |
| 鬼魂 鬼魂 | ghost | |
| 凤仙花 鳳仙花 | balsam; Balsaminaceae (a flower family including Impatiens balsamina); touch-me-not; busy Lizzie | |
| 枉然 枉然 | in vain; to no avail | |
| 姨母 姨母 | mother's sister; maternal aunt | |
| 善财 善財 | to cherish wealth | |
| 缠身 纏身 | (of an illness, debt etc) to plague one; to bog one down; to preoccupy one |