Vocabulary
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| 自己 自己 | oneself; one's own | |
| 但 但 | but; yet; however; still; merely; only; just | |
| 让 讓 | to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被) | |
| 啊 啊 | interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh! | |
| 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 |
| 山 山 | mountain; hill; (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on | Colloquialism |
| 块 塊 | lump; chunk; piece; classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc; (coll.) classifier for money and currency units | Colloquialism |
| 那 那 | (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. [nèi]); (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations); then (in that case) | Colloquialism |
| 着 著 | (chess) move; trick; all right!; (dialect) to add | |
| 南宋 南宋 | the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) | Proper Noun |
| 朱子 朱子 | Master Zhu, another name for Zhu Xi | Proper Noun |
| 朱元璋 朱元璋 | Zhu Yuanzhang, personal name of first Ming dynasty emperor Hongwu | Proper Noun |
| 北宋 北宋 | the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) | Proper Noun |
| 孟子 孟子 | Mencius (c. 372-c. 289 BC), Confucian philosopher second only to Confucius; book of the same name, one of the classics of Confucianism | Proper Noun |
| 四书 四書 | Four Books, namely: the Great Learning 大學|大学, the Doctrine of the Mean 中庸, the Analects of Confucius 論語|论语, and Mencius 孟子 | Proper Noun |
| 九月 九月 | September; ninth month (of the lunar year) | 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 |
| 十二月 十二月 | December; twelfth month (of the lunar year) | Proper Noun |
| 十月 十月 | October; tenth month (of the lunar year) | Proper Noun |
| 中国人 中國人 | Chinese person | Proper Noun |
| 回回 回回 | (old) the Hui ethnic group (Chinese Muslims); a Hui person | Proper Noun |
| 山水 山水 | Sansui, Japanese company | Proper Noun |
| 五常 五常 | Wuchang, county-level city in Harbin, Heilongjiang; the Permanent Five (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council: China, France, Russia, the UK, and the USA) | Proper Noun |
| 南京 南京 | Nanjing, sub-provincial city and capital of Jiangsu Province; Nanjing, capital of the Ming dynasty (1368-1421) and of the Republic of China (1927-1937 and 1946-1949) | Proper Noun |
| 中西 中西 | China and the West; Chinese-Western | Proper Noun |
| 山东 山東 | Shandong Province, capital Jinan | Proper Noun |
| 三月 三月 | March; third month (of the lunar year) | Proper Noun |
| 三重 三重 | Sanchong, a district of New Taipei City, Taiwan; Mie Prefecture in central Japan | Proper Noun |
| 考工记 考工記 | The Artificer's Record, a technology treaty compiled towards the end of the Spring and Autumn period | Proper Noun |
| 雍正 雍正 | Yongzheng, reign name of Qing emperor (1722-1735) | Proper Noun |
| 男孩儿 男孩兒 | erhua variant of 男孩; boy | |
| 二十 二十 | twenty; 20 | |
| 一个 一個 | a; an; one; the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc) | |
| 这个 這個 | (pronoun) this; (adjective) this | |
| 这是 這是 | 这: this, the, here · 是: indeed, yes, right; to be; demonstrative pronoun, this, that | |
| 年间 年間 | in the years of; during those years; period (of dynasty or decade) | |
| 这种 這種 | this kind of | |
| 商 商 | commerce, business, trade | |
| 明 明 | bright, light, brilliant; clear | |
| 这位 這位 | this (person) | |
| 三十 三十 | thirty; 30 | |
| 一种 一種 | one kind of; one type of | |
| 书斋 書齋 | study (room) | |
| 三次 三次 | third; three times; (math.) degree three, cubic (equation) | |
| 前行 前行 | (literary) to go forward | |
| 语 語 | language, words; saying, expression | |
| 达 達 | arrive at, reach; intelligent; smooth, slippery | |
| 工匠 工匠 | artisan; smith | |
| 上书 上書 | to write a letter (to the authorities); to present a petition | |
| 元年 元年 | first year of an emperor's reign; first year of an era; first year of a significant time period |