Vocabulary
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| 幕 幕 | curtain or screen; canopy or tent; headquarters of a general; act (of a play) | |
| 怀孕 懷孕 | pregnant; to have conceived; gestation; pregnancy | |
| 致 緻 | (bound form) fine; delicate; exquisite | |
| 竟 竟 | unexpectedly; actually; to go so far as to; indeed | |
| 得知 得知 | to find out; to learn of | |
| 惊讶 驚訝 | amazed; astonished; to surprise; amazing; astonishment; awe | |
| 望 望 | full moon; to hope; to expect; to visit; to gaze (into the distance); to look towards; towards | |
| 原本 原本 | originally; original | |
| 官员 官員 | official (in an organization or government); administrator | |
| 惊 驚 | to startle; to be frightened; to be scared; alarm | |
| 从未 從未 | never | |
| 家族 家族 | family; clan | |
| 设 設 | to set up; to put in place; (math.) given; suppose; if | |
| 曲 曲 | bent; crooked; wrong | |
| 嫁 嫁 | (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) | |
| 供 供 | to provide; to supply | |
| 即 即 | namely; that is; i.e.; prompt; at once; at present; even if; prompted (by the occasion); to approach; to come into contact; to assume (office); to draw near | |
| 不知 不知 | not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) | |
| 经 經 | classics; sacred book; scripture; to pass through; to undergo; to bear; to endure; warp (textile); longitude; menstruation; channel (TCM); abbr. for economics 经济 | |
| 文 文 | language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle; (old) classifier for coins; Kangxi radical 67 | |
| 同志 同志 | comrade; (slang) homosexual | |
| 德 德 | Germany; German; abbr. for 德国 | |
| 则 則 | (literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then; (bound form) standard; norm; (bound form) principle; (literary) to imitate; to follow; classifier for written items | |
| 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° | |
| 及 及 | and; to reach; up to; in time for | |
| 以 㕥 | abbr. for Israel 列 | |
| 之 之 | (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的); him; her; it | |
| 垂帘听政 垂簾聽政 | lit. to govern from behind the curtain; to rule in place of the emperor (idiom) | Idiom |
| 一见钟情 一見鍾情 | to fall in love at first sight (idiom) | Idiom |
| 深谋远虑 深謀遠慮 | lit. deep plans and distant thoughts; to plan far ahead (idiom) | Idiom |
| 自生自灭 自生自滅 | to emerge and perish on its own; to run its course (idiom) | Idiom |
| 内忧外患 內憂外患 | internal trouble and outside aggression (idiom); in a mess both domestically and abroad | Idiom |
| 死到临头 死到臨頭 | Death is near at hand. (idiom) | Xiehouyu |
| 出格 出格 | to overstep the bounds of what is proper; to take sth too far; (of a measuring device) to go off the scale | Xiehouyu |
| 悬 懸 | to hang or suspend; to worry; public announcement; unresolved; baseless; without foundation | Xiehouyu |
| 却是 卻是 | nevertheless; actually; the fact is ... | |
| 嫔妃 嬪妃 | imperial concubine | |
| 皇子 皇子 | prince | |
| 宫女 宮女 | palace maid | |
| 皇位 皇位 | the title of Emperor | |
| 六宫 六宮 | empress and imperial concubines or their residence | |
| 陈设 陳設 | to display; to exhibit; to set out; furnishings | |
| 大不相同 大不相同 | not at all the same; substantially different | |
| 放鞭炮 放鞭炮 | to set off firecrackers | |
| 入关 入關 | to enter a pass; to go through customs | |
| 皇族 皇族 | the imperial family; royal kin | |
| 帝后 帝后 | empress; imperial consort | |
| 皇太子 皇太子 | crown prince | |
| 梳头 梳頭 | to comb one's hair |