Vocabulary
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| 运 運 | to move; to transport; to use; to apply; fortune; luck; fate | |
| 幅 幅 | width; roll; classifier for textiles or pictures | |
| 之中 之中 | inside; among; in the midst of (doing sth); during | |
| 式 式 | type; form; pattern; style | |
| 拒绝 拒絕 | to refuse; to decline; to reject | |
| 人物 人物 | person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc); figure painting (as a genre of traditional Chinese painting) | |
| 女性 女性 | woman; the female sex | |
| 待 待 | to stay | |
| 关键 關鍵 | crucial point; crux; key; crucial; pivotal | |
| 尽管 儘管 | despite; although; even though; in spite of; unhesitatingly; do not hesitate (to ask, complain etc); (go ahead and do it) without hesitating | |
| 再次 再次 | one more time; again; one more; once again | |
| 至 至 | to arrive; most; to; until | |
| 神 神 | God; abbr. for 舟 | |
| 令 令 | used in 令; used in 狐 (Taiwan pr. [lìng]) | |
| 声 聲 | sound; voice; tone; noise; reputation; classifier for sounds | |
| 其 其 | his; her; its; their; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it) | |
| 将 將 | will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) | |
| 互不相让 互不相讓 | neither giving way to the other | Xiehouyu |
| 苦 苦 | bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly | Xiehouyu |
| 胡适 胡適 | Hu Shi (1891-1962), original proponent of writing in colloquial Chinese | Colloquialism |
| 潮 潮 | tide; damp; moist; humid; fashionable; trendy; (coll.) inferior; substandard | Colloquialism |
| 穷 窮 | poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly | Colloquialism |
| 俩 倆 | two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some | Colloquialism |
| 抱 抱 | to hold; to carry (in one's arms); to hug; to embrace; to surround; to cherish; (coll.) (of clothes) to fit nicely | Colloquialism |
| 理学 理學 | School of Principle; Neo-Confucian Rationalistic School (from Song to mid-Qing times, c. 1000-1750, typified by the teachings of Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi and Zhu Xi) | Proper Noun |
| 朱熹 朱熹 | Zhu Xi or Chu Hsi (1130-1200), also known as Master Zhu, Song dynasty Confucian writer and propagandist, founder of neo-Confucianism | Proper Noun |
| 新安 新安 | Xin'an county in Luoyang 洛陽|洛阳, Henan | Proper Noun |
| 乾隆 乾隆 | the Qianlong era; Qianlong Emperor (1711-1799), sixth Qing emperor, princely title, personal name, reigned 1735-1799 | Proper Noun |
| 紫阳 紫陽 | Ziyang County in Ankang, Shaanxi | Proper Noun |
| 孔子 孔子 | Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker and social philosopher, also known as | Proper Noun |
| 李 李 | Li (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 明清 明清 | the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties | Proper Noun |
| 正统 正統 | Zhengtong Emperor, reign name of sixth Ming Emperor Zhu Qizhen (1427-1464), reigned 1435-1449, temple name Yingzong | Proper Noun |
| 论语 論語 | The Analects of Confucius | Proper Noun |
| 华夏 華夏 | old name for China; Cathay | Proper Noun |
| 江山 江山 | Jiangshan, county-level city in Quzhou, Zhejiang | Proper Noun |
| 四库全书 四庫全書 | Siku Quanshu (collection of books compiled during Qing dynasty) | Proper Noun |
| 昌原 昌原 | Changwon City, capital of South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea | Proper Noun |
| 洪武 洪武 | Hongwu Emperor, also written Hung-wu Ti, reign name of first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang (1328-1398), reigned 1386-1398, temple name | Proper Noun |
| 新文化运动 新文化運動 | the New Culture Movement (mid-1910s and 1920s), intellectual revolution against Confucianism aiming to introduce Western elements, especially democracy and science | Proper Noun |
| 仁爱 仁愛 | Ren'ai or Jenai District of Keelung City, Taiwan; Ren'ai or Jenai Township in Nantou County, central Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 孔孟之道 孔孟之道 | the teaching of Confucius and Mencius | Proper Noun |
| 建安 建安 | reign name (196-219) at the end of the Han dynasty | Proper Noun |
| 清代 清代 | Qing dynasty (1644-1911) | Proper Noun |
| 庆元 慶元 | Qingyuan county in Lishui, Zhejiang | Proper Noun |
| 孔庙 孔廟 | Confucian temple | Proper Noun |
| 圣地 聖地 | holy land (of a religion); sacred place; shrine; holy city (such as Jerusalem, Mecca etc); center of historic interest | Proper Noun |
| 休宁 休寧 | Xiuning, a county in Huangshan, Anhui | Proper Noun |
| 大唐 大唐 | Great Tang | Proper Noun |
| 中原 中原 | Central Plain, the middle and lower regions of the Yellow river, including Henan, western Shandong, southern Shanxi and Hebei | Proper Noun |