The Forbidden City

Whole-title review

Season 1 — The Forbidden City

故宫 gùgōng

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Vocabulary

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嫩 嫩 nèn young and tender; (of food) tender; lightly cooked; (of color) light; (of a person) inexperienced; unskilled HSK 7
运转 運轉 yùn zhuǎn to work; to operate; to revolve; to turn around HSK 7
是非 是非 shì fēi right and wrong; quarrel HSK 7
八卦 八卦 bā guà the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易经; gossip; gossipy HSK 7
霜 霜 shuāng frost; white powder or cream spread over a surface; frosting; (skin) cream HSK 7
时空 時空 shí kōng time and place; world of a particular locale and era; (physics) space-time HSK 7
忙碌 忙碌 máng lù busy; bustling HSK 7
任意 任意 rèn yì any; arbitrary; at will; at random HSK 7
恶劣 惡劣 è liè vile; nasty; of very poor quality HSK 7
曲线 曲線 qū xiàn curve; curved line; indirect; in a roundabout way HSK 7
共识 共識 gòng shí common understanding; consensus HSK 7
预料 預料 yù liào to forecast; to anticipate; expectation HSK 7
周边 周邊 zhōu biān periphery; rim; surroundings; all around; perimeter; peripheral (computing); spin-offs HSK 7
工地 工地 gōng dì construction site HSK 7
赐 賜 cì to confer; to bestow; to grant; Taiwan pr. [sì] HSK 7
及其 及其 jí qí (conjunction linking two nouns) and its ...; and their ...; and his ...; and her ... HSK 7
不已 不已 bù yǐ endlessly; incessantly HSK 7
积 積 jī to amass; to accumulate; to store; measured quantity (such as area of volume); product (the result of multiplication); to integrate (math.); to solve (or integrate) an ordinary differential equation (math.); old; long-standing HSK 7
华丽 華麗 huá lì gorgeous HSK 7
胎 胎 tāi fetus; classifier for litters (of puppies etc); padding (in clothing or bedding); womb carrying a fetus; (fig.) origin; source; (loanword) tire HSK 7
掩盖 掩蓋 yǎn gài to conceal; to hide behind; to cover up HSK 7
被捕 被捕 bèi bǔ to be arrested; under arrest HSK 7
自称 自稱 zì chēng to call oneself; to claim to be; to profess; to claim a title HSK 7
清新 清新 Qīng xīn Qingxin county in Qingyuan 清远, Guangdong HSK 7
砖 磚 zhuān brick HSK 7
大地 大地 dà dì earth; mother earth HSK 7
吉他 吉他 jí tā guitar (loanword) HSK 7
贵族 貴族 guì zú lord; nobility; nobleman; noblewoman; aristocrat; aristocracy HSK 7
勾 勾 gòu used in 勾当 HSK 7
捧 捧 pěng to clasp; to cup the hands; to hold up with both hands; to offer (esp. in cupped hands); to praise; to flatter HSK 7
神圣 神聖 shén shèng divine; hallow; holy; sacred HSK 7
棉花 棉花 mián hua cotton HSK 7
新生 新生 xīn shēng new; newborn; emerging; nascent; rebirth; regeneration; new life; new student HSK 7
罩 罩 zhào cover; fish trap (basket); shade HSK 7
临 臨 lín to face; to overlook; to arrive; to be (just) about to; just before HSK 7
屋顶 屋頂 wū dǐng roof HSK 7
辞 辤 cí old variant of 辞 HSK 7
壮 壯 Zhuàng Zhuang ethnic group of Guangxi, the PRC's second most numerous ethnic group HSK 7
扬 揚 yáng to raise; to hoist; the action of tossing or winnowing; scattering (in the wind); to flutter; to propagate HSK 7
伴随 伴隨 bàn suí to accompany; to follow; to occur together with; concomitant HSK 7
故 故 gù happening; instance; reason; cause; intentional; former; old; friend; therefore; hence; (of people) to die, dead HSK 7
天赋 天賦 tiān fù gift; innate skill HSK 7
空白 空白 kòng bái blank space HSK 7
盛大 盛大 shèng dà grand; majestic; magnificent HSK 7
永不 永不 yǒng bù never; will never HSK 7
确切 確切 què qiè definite; exact; precise HSK 7
赞同 讚同 zàn tóng to approve of; to endorse; (vote) in favor HSK 7
席 席 xí woven mat; seat; banquet; place in a democratic assembly; classifier for banquets, conversations etc HSK 7
海岸 海岸 hǎi àn coastal; seacoast HSK 7
继 繼 jì to continue; to follow after; to go on with; to succeed; to inherit; then; afterwards HSK 7