The Little Nyonya

Episode review

The Little Nyonya Episode 12

S1E12 · 第 12 集 dì jí

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3.88 Beginner

Vocabulary

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贼 賊 zéi thief; traitor; wily; deceitful; evil; extremely HSK 7
乖 乖 guāi (of a child) obedient, well-behaved; clever; shrewd; alert; perverse; contrary to reason; irregular; abnormal HSK 7
汁 汁 zhī juice HSK 7
丁 丁 dīng male adult; the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 干; fourth (used like "4" or "D"); small cube of meat or vegetable; (literary) to encounter; (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195°; (chemistry) butyl HSK 7
屁股 屁股 pì gu buttocks; bottom; butt; back part HSK 7
惹 惹 rě to provoke; to irritate; to vex; to stir up; to anger; to attract (troubles); to cause (problems) HSK 7
原本 原本 yuán běn originally; original HSK 7
哼 哼 hēng to groan; to snort; to hum; to croon; humph! HSK 7
艘 艘 sōu classifier for ships; Taiwan pr. [sāo] HSK 7
盯 盯 dīng to watch attentively; to fix one's attention on; to stare at; to gaze at HSK 7
嫁 嫁 jià (of a woman) to marry; to marry off a daughter; to shift (blame etc) HSK 7
注 註 zhù to register; to annotate; note; comment HSK 7
罗 羅 luó gauze; to collect; to gather; to catch; to sift HSK 7
需 需 xū to require; to need; to want; necessity; need HSK 7
不知 不知 bù zhī not to know; unaware; unknowingly; fig. not to admit (defeat, hardships, tiredness etc) HSK 7
而已 而已 ér yǐ that's all; nothing more HSK 7
哦 哦 é to chant HSK 7
如意算盘 如意算盤 rú yì suàn pán counting one's chickens before they are hatched Idiom ∼HSK 6
聪明伶俐 聰明伶俐 cōng ming - líng lì (idiom) bright; clever; quick-witted Idiom ∼HSK 6
晕头转向 暈頭轉向 yūn tóu zhuàn xiàng confused and disoriented Idiom ∼HSK 6
贼头贼脑 賊頭賊腦 zéi tóu zéi nǎo lit. to behave like a thief; furtive; underhand Idiom ∼HSK 6
三头六臂 三頭六臂 sān tóu - liù bì lit. (having) three heads and six arms (idiom); fig. superhuman abilities; exceptional capability Idiom ∼HSK 6
小媳妇 小媳婦 xiǎo xí fu young married woman; mistress; (fig.) punching bag; (old) child bride Xiehouyu ∼HSK 6
不成 不成 bù chéng won't do; unable to; (at the end of a rhetorical question) can that be? Xiehouyu HSK 6
老娘 老孃 lǎo niáng my old mother; I, this old woman; my old lady (colloquial); maternal grandmother; midwife Colloquialism ∼HSK 6
就算 就算 jiù suàn (coll.) even if Colloquialism HSK 6
嘛 嘛 má used in 吽; (Tw) (coll.) what? Colloquialism HSK 6
有没有 有沒有 yǒu méi yǒu (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...?; Is there a ...?; (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)?; Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)? HSK 6
蜈蚣 蜈蚣 wú gōng centipede ∼HSK 6
阿公 阿公 ā gōng (old) grandfather; polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law; (Taiwanese) grandfather ∼HSK 6
情郎 情郎 qíng láng boyfriend; paramour (of a woman) ∼HSK 6
佣人 傭人 yōng rén servant ∼HSK 6
阿爹 阿爹 ā diē dad; father; (paternal) grandfather; old man ∼HSK 6
情歌 情歌 qíng gē love song ∼HSK 6
孙媳妇 孫媳婦 sūn xí fù son's son's wife; grandson's wife ∼HSK 6
享福 享福 xiǎng fú to live comfortably; happy and prosperous life ∼HSK 6
滴答 滴答 dī dā (onom.) pattering sound; drip drip (of water); tick tock (of clock); also pr. [di1 da5] ∼HSK 6
锡矿 錫礦 xī kuàng tin ore ∼HSK 6
小仙女 小仙女 xiǎo xiān nǚ girl fairy; beautiful girl or young woman; (neologism) (slang) irrational and egocentric young woman ∼HSK 6
入味 入味 rù wèi tasty; to be absorbed in sth; interesting ∼HSK 6
帐目 帳目 zhàng mù account ∼HSK 6
荒废 荒廢 huāng fèi to abandon (cultivated fields); no longer cultivated; to lie waste; wasted; to neglect (one's work or study) ∼HSK 6
问长问短 問長問短 wèn cháng wèn duǎn to ask about everything (idiom); to inquire solicitously after every detail ∼HSK 6
馋嘴 饞嘴 chán zuǐ gluttonous; glutton ∼HSK 6
水井 水井 shuǐ jǐng (water) well ∼HSK 6
钻进 鑽進 zuān jìn to get into; to dig into (studies, job etc); to squeeze into ∼HSK 6
踪影 蹤影 zōng yǐng trace; vestige; presence ∼HSK 6
说废话 說廢話 shuō fèi huà to talk nonsense; to bullshit ∼HSK 6
赎回 贖回 shú huí to redeem ∼HSK 6
长痛不如短痛 長痛不如短痛 cháng tòng bù rú duǎn tòng better to just get the pain over with, rather than prolong the agony ∼HSK 6