Vocabulary
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| 安排 安排 | to arrange; to plan; to set up; arrangements; plans | |
| 下去 下去 | to go down; to descend; to go on; to continue; (of a servant) to withdraw | |
| 金 金 | gold; chemical element Au; generic term for lustrous and ductile metals; money; golden; highly respected; one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 音 | |
| 光 光 | light; ray; bright; shiny; only; merely; used up; finished; to leave (a part of the body) uncovered | |
| 抓 抓 | to grab; to catch; to arrest; to snatch; to scratch | |
| 好好 好好 | well; carefully; nicely; properly | |
| 坚持 堅持 | to persevere with; to persist in; to insist on | |
| 到底 到底 | finally; in the end; when all is said and done; after all; to the end; to the last | |
| 简单 簡單 | simple; not complicated | |
| 明显 明顯 | clear; distinct; obvious | |
| 因此 因此 | thus; consequently; as a result | |
| 突然 突然 | sudden; abrupt; unexpected | |
| 指 指 | finger; to point at or to; to indicate or refer to; to depend on; to count on; (of hair) to stand on end | |
| 除了 除了 | besides; apart from (... also...); in addition to; except (for) | |
| 终于 終於 | at last; in the end; finally; eventually | |
| 根本 根本 | fundamental; basic; root; simply; absolutely (not); (not) at all | |
| 活 活 | to live; alive; living; work; workmanship | |
| 注意 注意 | to take note of; to pay attention to | |
| 能力 能力 | capability; ability | |
| 消息 消息 | news; information | |
| 连 連 | to link; to join; to connect; continuously; in succession; including; (used with 也, 都 etc) even; company (military) | |
| 如何 如何 | how; what way; what | |
| 只有 只有 | only have ...; there is only ...; (used in combination with 才) it is only if one ... (that one can ...) (Example: 只有通过治疗才能痊愈 "the only way to cure it is with therapy"); it is only ... (who ...) (Example: 要 "only men would have such a requirement"); (used to indicate that one has no alternative) one can only (do a certain thing) (Example: 服 "the only thing you can do is give in") | |
| 张 張 | to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes | |
| 心 心 | heart; mind; intention; center; core | |
| 情况 情況 | circumstances; state of affairs; situation | |
| 世界 世界 | world | |
| 只是 只是 | merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however | |
| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 发生 發生 | to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out | |
| 种 種 | seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts | |
| 死 死 | to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 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}) | |
| 老头子 老頭子 | (coll.) old man; (said of an aging husband) my old man | Colloquialism |
| 够 夠 | enough (sufficient); enough (too much); (coll.) (before adj.) really; (coll.) to reach by stretching out | Colloquialism |
| 挺 挺 | straight; erect; to stick out (a part of the body); to (physically) straighten up; to support; to withstand; outstanding; (coll.) quite; very; classifier for machine guns | Colloquialism |
| 拉 拉 | to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels | Colloquialism |
| 那时候 那時候 | at that time | |
| 挺好 挺好 | very good | |
| 休妻 休妻 | to repudiate one's wife | |
| 十全 十全 | perfect; complete | |
| 房 房 | surname Fang | |
| 山鸡 山雞 | Reeves's pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii); (dialect) pheasant | |
| 参 參 | take part in, intervene; ginseng | |
| 咱家 咱家 | I; me; my; (often used in early vernacular literature) | |
| 二房 二房 | second branch of an extended family; concubine |